My Bright Idea

Hello! My very first blog ~ I am way behind the times. I have to confess that my motives are not entirely pure. I have been wanting to keep a journal of the months ahead, yes, but also do not intend to share with family until the time is right.

Yep - I am the big preg-o! My husband Daniel and I were lucky on our very first try! We are six weeks tomorrow, so our little T is about the size of an appleseed. Our roughly estimated due date is June 24th, and my first doctor's appointment is a week from tomorrow. I have been doing a lot of reading (what I do best) and a lot of the advice suggests keeping a journal for posterity as well as sanity.

The secrecy has reasoning, however. I am not in a big rush to tell every family member & friend in case in the early stages of things something goes wrong. But more importantly, I have recently been subjected to some pretty grandiose-sized secret-keeping (ahem, Julie), so I think it only fair to return the favor. Maybe on the petty side, but think how excited our parents will be when we break the news on Christmas day!

Normally, I would have rushed over and told my mom right away, so this blog will hopefully be my way of communicating with her through time. Mom, I have been dying to tell you - I have been feeling so very terrible that I want to come over for saltines & ginger ale and be on the receiving end of your patented comfort in times of sickness. But if we tell you, we tell all, and we want it to be a surprise! So Daniel ran down to Fry's and bought saltines & Progresso chicken noodle & I feel a little better. He said it's giving him some practice for when I start having cravings.

I have had such an easy time with that time of the month my whole life, that I guess the last week of morning sickness (which lasts ALL day) has been my payback. It is making me doubt whether we will have more kids after this one, but hopefully I will stop feeling this way very soon. Daniel says I have a hypersensitive sense of smell now ~ and that means I think everything smells disgusting.

Well, another part of this whole pregnancy deal is that I am constantly exhausted, so this will be the end of my very first post in my very first blog regarding my very first little baby!

Goodnight all!