Update on the spawnling

Had my first visit with the midwife today; the initial estimate is 14 weeks but they're going to schedule a sonogram to try and verify that. The baby's heartbeat was strong and normal, which was very encouraging! Also encouraging is the fact that my miscarriages did not place me into a high risk category that would require I deliver at a hospital instead of the birth center.

So that placed me in a much better mood in which to deal with having to appear before the magistrate yet again this afternoon for an overgrown lawn violation. The truly sad thing is that we had been trying (successfully) to keep our lawn tamed this year, but between the pregnancy sickness and my husband's issue with his ear, neither of us had managed to get out there and do something about the lawn in September, and we've been getting regular rain much later than usual this year which has kept the weeds growing. Friday morning I finally felt well enough to try tackling the lawn, and Friday afternoon received the certified letter ordering us to appear before the magistrate on Tuesday. And because we're 'repeat offenders' they no longer have to give us a warning letter first.

Oh well. Hopefully next year we'll manage to keep them off our back.