I Used To Be So Much Better At This Blogging Thing

So yeah! Back in what, July? I posted about us finally getting preggo…and then fell off the blogging wagon again. Between work, and I dunno, being PREGNANT I have been once again shirking my mindless droning on about me myself and (Brad) I. I guess blogging for me is a cyclical pattern, as is my reading of other blogs. With the soul-sucking addiction that is Facebook, micro-blogging and immediate reactions are just so much more gratifying I suppose. By the time I think to actually blog about something, it’s old news because I have already updated my status!

But, for the sake of wanting to look back someday and perhaps read about this time in my life, I figure the good old blog is much more reliable than fishing through hundreds (thousands?) of status updates and try to piece them together.

So, goodness, where to start here? Since my last post I’ve finally come out of the first trimester and in to the much easier to handle 2nd trimester. I luckily didn’t lose my lunch much in the first tri, but I seemed to exist in a constant state of nausea, where the threat of losing my lunch always seemed to follow me around!

I hit the second trimester in late August, and have been enjoying the absence of nausea (most of the time), but it has been offset by a major case of hormonal emotional craziness! Those who know me well know that I am usually pretty even-tempered…usually in a good mood and not quick to anger or sadness. Well, let me introduce you to the blubbering loose canon that I have become! I’m thinking during this time that Brad is probably happy to be in Abilene most of the time. My apologies to those that actually have to deal with me on a daily basis. From crying over television shows to losing my cool over perceived slights, it’s definitely been a weird adventure.

Now, unbelievably, I’m exactly 100 days from my due date! I start my third trimester on Thanksgiving day…and I turn 31 next Thursday. In 37 days Brad will be back home, having graduated. There are so many things slamming together in such a short amount of time. It’s hard not to feel overwhelmed much of the time, but I am taking things one day at a time and enjoying feeling the baby move and kick.

Oh, as for the baby! It’s a GIRL! She’s doing great and always measures perfect. I felt the first flutters of her moving around 18 weeks (I’ll be 26 weeks on Friday). Brad and I have decided on the name Reagan, which has no “special” meaning for us, it just seemed to stick out when we were pouring over pages and pages of baby girl names. The middle name will be LeeAnn or Lee Ann (we’re still undecided). Lee is after mine and my dad’s middle name, Ann is for Brad’s mother and my late Aunt who passed away when I was just a baby.

We finally finished our registry at Target just this last week, and let me just say that it was an overwhelming experience! Being the youngest in my family, my exposure to babies is limited…I had no idea what insane devices lived on those isles. I hope I did it right, it took us 2 trips to figure things out. O.o As far as baby things we have already, a bittersweet blessing is the furniture we had ordered back in 2009 before the miscarriage. It had stayed in boxes in storage all this time. It is definitely a blessing now, as there would be no way we could afford it at this time! Brad and Jeff assembled that a little while ago, and I was so excited to finally see it out of the box! We painted the nursery green and white, but beyond that we haven’t done a whole lot of decorating. There’s still so much to do!

Work is still going pretty good. There are many stressful days with some of the projects I’m involved in, but as I’ve always said, I’m thankful to have a job where I get to do something a little different every day.

Brad as I mentioned is almost graduated, and is definitely feeling the effects of Senioritis! He (and I both!) are so ready for him to be done, to come home, and to finally be a family unit again. I am still staying with my brother, and we will probably be with him for a time after Reagan is born while we figure out what direction we’ll be going in with Brad going after his masters.

So, that is my text-driven update for now. Of course everyone’s favorite bit - pictures!