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…
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