Talk about a fast year!! When my dad was losing his battle with cancer we'd
often talk about life and he'd try to plant in me how to appreciate everything
because it goes so fast. He says you get your first job...you get married...you
start to get some nice things (houses, cars...) before you know it you have two
kids and life is moving at 100mph. His main point was to try not to lose sight
of what's important because it's easy to do.
Well...we're pregnant! Ha! 7 1/2 months along!! Late in 2012 we knew we
wanted to move back to Des Moines so Tim began interviewing and landed a job
with CoreMark. We moved back to the Des Moines townhouse the week before
Thanksgiving. Moving is hard work and no matter how prepared we thought we were
for it still sucked. Our nightmare with the moving company when we moved to
Minneapolis drove us to just do the move back on our own. It still sucked but
at least we were in control of it this time. We'd basically been trying to get
pregnant since October 2011 and when we moved we decided to just give it a
break...Tim was traveling a lot with his new job and I was working hard on
getting the townhouse updated (a project that took all of 6 months to
complete!!). I figured when the time was right I’d go to the doctor to see if
something was wrong but a part of me was scared and not ready to know if something
was wrong.
Well needless to say...the
second we quit trying is when we got pregnant. We were ecstatic...and much like
the first time I took a test right as Tim was heading out of town for work so
there wasn't much celebration! I really didn't think I was pregnant as I had
been convinced so many times previously that I was and it never was the case.
This time I was wrong! We're due September 11th, 2013 and have no idea what
we're having. We couldn't be more anxious and thrilled!
Pregnancy has been pretty good.
I had morning sickness in the beginning…just
very nauseous in the morning.
Once I
forced myself to eat something I was usually okay but the nauseousness really
came and went throughout the day.
I only
got sick once so not too shabby compared to stories I’ve heard.
Perhaps
the most debilitating was the extreme exhaustion.
If I could make it to 7:30 pm that was good!
To top things off I also got Shingles which I
think just ran my body down ever further.
I didn’t have a lot of pain with them just more discomfort.
Granted, work at that time was also insanely
busy requiring 55+ hours per week.
I
remember just lying in bed freezing, emotional, tired, and nauseous
anticipating how good spring was going to feel!
Once I hit 12ish weeks I felt like my old self again. :o)
We didn’t hear the heart beat until 13 weeks
and it was SO exciting.
I think with the
previous miscarriage happening around 12 weeks we really hadn’t let ourselves
get too excited until that 13 weeks mark.
It made everything real.
Week 20
brought the ultrasound which was also just as equally amazing to see everything
was okay and to finally let yourself feel like this is happening.
I keep having the same thought to myself when
I picture holding the baby for the first time…just telling him/her that we’ve
been waiting for you!!
We have….we’ve
really been waiting since July 2011!
I
remember thinking when we were first pregnant in July 2011 that “boy that was
easy we weren’t even trying”.
Having
gone through everything afterwards I have a new appreciation for women who have
fertility problems as it really is an emotional rollercoaster that no one can
understand unless you’ve been through it.
So here we are 32 weeks later and we’re still waiting. :o)
I feel good and just really am looking
forward to everything…I couldn’t feel more ready.
I love feeling the baby move and am always
still baffled at the thought of two people making
a human being!
The bigger the baby gets the cooler it is as
well…I can distinguish a hand/elbow from a foot etc.
Tim has yet to really feel the CRAZY kicks
but hopefully before the baby runs out of room he will.
I was in a meeting last week and the baby was
just going nuts to the point I was almost wondering if other people could see
my stomach going nuts as I could see it out of my peripheral!
In the mean time Tim left CoreMark as Luxco
went to Southern Wine and Spirits and really wanted Tim back involved with
them.
He’s loving it and we’re so
thankful he’s back in an industry he’s not only GOOD at but really enjoys.
I was able to go back to QPC in April and am
also so thankful.
PAi burned me out and
I just didn’t see a career with them.
So
here we are almost full circle!
Life is
good…
