The Big Move......

I received some of the worst news a mommy-to-be could receive a couple days ago... Brandon will be gone for 9 months for "work"... He will miss the birth of our first born child. I was distraught at first. I cried and vomited (from morning sickness) and cried some more. How can I do this on my own? How can I do this, one of the most important tasks of my entire womanhood, with only half of my mind, body and soul? As unfair as I still believe it is, I am slowly accepting and changing my outlook on the task that lay before me without the help (but not support!) of my husband.

Out of all this grief, there are actually two great outcomes ahead... first and foremost, I am going to be a mommy!!! and second, by the time the baby is born, we will be able to pay off all (or at least most) of our debt. How? Well, instead of staying down here by myself, I am moving to Akron, Ohio to live with family until after the baby is born. By doing this, we will save over $900/mth that we would have spent on rent and utilities... All of our things in the townhouse will be put into storage and kept there until Brandon, baby and I come back. While in Akron, I will be searching for houses in FL to move into when we come back.

This is all worked out perfectly in my mind... unfortunately, it never works out that way in the end lol. Oh well... one can only try.

I haven't written on here in a while because I have had a VERY rough time with morning sickness... Plus, I had a bad head cold on top of that. So a combination of being unable to eat and mucus drainage, I vomited at least once a day. Thankfully, the cold went away, and I found a system to keeping my morning sickness down for the most part. The whole trick is to not let my stomach be empty as much as possible and stay hydrated. I am NOT saying that I eat a large amount of food all day... no, even when you are pregnant, you do not eat for two... By following this system, I still only eat half of what I normally ate before prego. As soon as I wake up, even before sitting up in bed, I eat something... ex: this morning I ate half a pb&j sandwich and a couple sips of water. Then about every hour to every hour and a half, I eat again. If my stomach were to get empty, the rest of my day is pretty much ruined... it's incredibly hard to eat or drink anything when constantly on the verge of vomiting (mom's, you know what I mean). This system is definitely not fool proof, as I can really vomit at any time, but it mainly tricks my body to concentrate on digesting instead of upchucking :)

If I didn't have bad luck, I would have no luck at all...

Yesterday my stupid car (which hates me) decided it will over heat every 5 miles I drive. Brandon came home from work for lunch. The plan was I was going to the airport and pick up a coworker of his, drive them back on base and go grocery shopping. Well, 5 minutes to the airport my dashboard thermostat was in the red area. Brandon had to call someone else to pick her up and on their way back, to pick HIM up at our townhouse. No grocery shopping for me :(

Right now Brandon is at the car center on base trying to get my stupid car fixed. He tries so hard to make everything less stressful for me and easier. I love him so much :)

On a better note, tomorrow is Valentines Day! For my present, we are going to buy a dresser for me lol... currently my cloths are folded and stacked in the closet and laundry baskets.

Pregnant and moody... My poor husband :)

Well, today I am officially 6 weeks pregnant!

It all started about 4 weeks ago, I started feeling nausious, crampy and bloated. I figured the nausia was from the new medication I started on. We weren't really planning on having a baby yet but it seems God had other plans for our little family. Brandon is very excited. It's really cute actually lol.

My mom already went out and bought everything we need for the baby lol. I think she is more excited than anyone. Probably because this is her first grandbaby that she wont have to raise herself. The only things we really need are a crib, dresser, changing table and decorations.

Next week we have an appointment with the doctors to talk about what to expect, breast feeding, emergancies, blood tests... We wont have our first sonogram till next month on the 17th. Can't wait!