A few good things about the last few days:
- I got out of work a little early, letting me pick up the stocking stuffers for Robert
- We had our own little christmas last night. We each stuffed each others stockings and when I came home from work, Rob had a fire going (on our tv, complete with crackling sounds!) our christmas tree lights on, presents wrapped, christmas music playing, and mugs of hot chocolate. I love my husband!
- I gave into my sort of last minute whim and cut my hair. I love it! And I finally had the time to get my eyebrows waxed before we leave for Washington.
- I have all my winter gear ready so I won't freeze too badly.
- I have pants that fit, are comfy and fit nicely into my boots. I HATE wearing pants when the legs are wet at the bottom from snow/rain.
- Dr. appointment in 2 weeks! Rob will get to see the baby for the first time and we will hopefully find out whether its a boy or girl.
- Noah is coming to visit.
- I actually got Christmas cards out this year! And I got them out before Christmas Eve!
I'll put some new pictures up when I get home.
I've sadly neglected you all, this is true. Between my battles with morning sickness, the hectic schedules of our jobs and our weekly trips to the condo there hasn't been much time (or desire) to update. But now that things have settled down I'll give a quick update that, before too long, will be punctuated by pictures!
After a full month of spending our Sundays at the condo throwing out junk, saving junk, moving our junk, and cleaning the junky condo, we officially moved out and gave our keys over. The place looks, smells, and is cleaner than it was when we moved in, and probably than it has been for years. Whether we will see the results of that in a return of our deposit, only time will tell. Its a relief to not drive around there anymore, and we were able to spend the following Sunday settling into our new home (not really fun and relaxing either but it needed to be done!). Our boxes are put away (except for some stuff in the bedroom that needs going through), our Christmas tree is up, and when we feel up to it we will start rehanging our pictures. For now its nice to settle into a clean place on our new and matching couches, and feel like (ha!) real grownups.
Our first official doctor appointment is January 4th, and once its over I'll be relieved. This pregnancy has been pretty textbook- all the things that were supposed to happen did happen at precisely the right times, and the things that shouldn't happen unless its bad have not. There was a 3 week break between my morning sickness (thank God it ended when it did!) and the last week or so where I had worries about whether it was still alive in there or not, but now we have started to feel movement. In fact yesterday it spend about 3 hours doing continual somersaults, and would go from side to side. I think it thinks my stomach is some sort of bounce house. Anyways, once we get the ultrasound and tests done and they can reassure me everything is as right as it can be for now, I'll feel more comfortable to talk about the baby more. Right now I guess I feel like I could still jinx something. Other than talking about our fears of parenthood and our sharing of horrifying birth facts, and maybe the occasional verification of certain parental methods (AKA our kid will never act like that, spanking is a good thing, fear is a must, lol) we haven't talked about stuff like names or anything. I think most people think its a girl- we both kind of have a feeling its a girl- Rob wants a girl- so I find myself feeling bad for the little thing if it comes out a boy. I will be excited- I don't want to deal with a girl's drama and I'm pretty sure if its like me it will get shipped off to boarding school- but so far it seems like the draw is in favor of pink.
People started telling me to figure out what theme I want for the baby, because apparently everyone has a theme - whether its colors or animals or something along those lines- that they use for baby showers and decorating and so forth. There are some obvious things, like regardless of the sex it will have to be obsessed with Disney and Star Wars. Rob has already claimed that it will be receiving a boba fett plushie as its go to toy from him. I'm determined that if its a girl it will be dressed as multiple disney princesses. But as far as baby stuff goes, I don't want to get stuck in a boy or girl theme. So I decided that the "theme" would be Winnie the Pooh, and the more I think about it the more I like it. I want to make a cute bee mobile, i have these adorable little baby pooh and eeyore animals my mom sent me, and there are tons of stuff out there that can go with those "colors". Its pretty neutral too, so if we decided to have another kid after this we can reuse everything without worrying about a boy/girl difference. Ok, enough about babies.
We can use some prayer, as my job will be coming to at the end of December. The church we go to is struggling financially, and they aren't able to keep me on. This seems to be a common theme for me this year. Anyways, I've been praying to get a job that will let me stay at home, and I have been tentatively offered a Sales Manager position for a company owned by some people I used to know in NH. At the moment it looks like it would be commission only, and I haven't gotten much solid information yet as the job wouldn't start until January, so we don't know much right now about the job, or even if I will accept it. The major benefit would be that I would telecommute and do sales calls from home, and manage my region from here. I don't think it involves much if any travel either. Anyways, regardless of whether this is the job God wants me in or if another opportunity is on its way, prayer that we will be in the right place at God's timing and that up to that point He will provide would be appreciated.
This is way too long of a post so I'll end. We are excited to head up to Lacey a week from today! Can't wait to see our family. Love you all and Happy Holidays!