Spring Recap - Well, I know I said I was back and have been terrible about updating – but there was so much going on that I wasn’t necessarily ready to share with the general public it was difficult write an entry without mentioning our new and world altering news. So I guess a recap of spring is in order before I try to get in the groove of maybe updating weekly….well – it is a goal anyway ;)
I suppose the best place to start would be what I will refer to as….the last day I could think straight. On March 31st, I had a weird day. I had been feeling a little different… couldn’t quite place it, but I decided to take the 2nd of 3 pregnancy tests out of curiosity at work in the late morning. Since it was the 2nd, you understand it is not the first time this had crossed my mind. I had taken a test the week before St. Patty’s day and our party and had interpreted it as a negative test…subsequently giving me the go ahead to enjoy the libations that are customary for us in such situations….Anyhoo – This time when I took the test it still seemed questionable to me, but made me think it was time to go to the doctor and have them clear this up for me. This was not at all what I had expected. I go to the desk, they just give me a cup and tell me to go pea and then I was done and could go. I don’t really know what I expected to happen, but it was a little weird to me. So I peed and returned to work fully expecting to get a call that I was not pregnant and could go on with my life like normal... Instead I got a cheerful call, quickly telling me that I was pregnant and the results showed up “right away”! So - though right then, I believe I learned what a panic attack is…we learned the very happy news that we are expecting a baby on or about November 20th of this year. I was about 6 weeks along since they begin counting from the first day of your last period…which I will never really truly understand, but since that what all the books go by – I guess I will too. Steve quickly named the baby what it will be know as until it arrives - Barstow (an anagram for the "two bars" on the pregnancy test I was somehow unable to correctly decipher, twice).
I have been very lucky during these early months to not be sick or have any terrible symptoms, except for the whole….feel like you’ve been climbing a mountain and could sleep all of the time thing…but generally I have felt very good and feel lucky – just praying the luck continues throughout.
We'll call this our "before" picture taken when I was 10 Weeks
