Hello there! I know that I’ve been absent, but I promise that I have a really exciting reason…
Jordan and I are expecting our first child! I’m about 14.5 weeks along, and we couldn’t be more excited to finally be able to share our happy news with everyone. We are due on June 15, 2012, and we were elated to discover that we were expecting after just three months of trying for our first baby.
Watch our fun holiday announcement video here!
It’s been a long-kept secret that Jordan and I planned to try to conceive a baby – we’ve been talking about our desire to be parents since we were married, but we developed an “action plan” around January of 2011 to get me on “good” insurance, to get a bigger and more winter-ready vehicle, and to start saving for a potential new member of our family. We began trying around our one-year anniversary in July, and we learned that we were expecting in early October.
The reason for my (LONG) absence from the blog is mostly due to the horrendous morning sickness that I had in the first trimester – I don’t mean to complain, because obviously, we feel very blessed to have been able to conceive a baby at all, much less in just three short months of trying, but seriously – I was sick for FIVE STRAIGHT WEEKS and visited the emergency room for IV fluids TWICE! Uffda. But, once early November hit, the nausea passed, and all I was dealing with (mostly) was exhaustion. Now that’s it’s mid-December (how time flies!), I would say that I’m at about 95%. The remaining 5% is mostly due to my lingering lack of appetite – I’m still unable to tolerate the smell of eggs, browning hamburger, hot dogs, buffalo wings from Taco Johns, and soup, and I can’t eat any steak-like meat (just the thought of steak makes me gag!). But, I’m excited to see what the second trimester brings in terms of changes, because it has certainly been a wild ride thus far!
Aww! How exciting!! Congratulations to you both! Can’t wait to hear more about this in upcoming posts :)