Jellybean, today starts your twelfth week. You weigh a 1/2 ounce and are 2 1/2 inches long. Most of your inner systems are fully formed. Your bone marrow is making white blood cells and your pituitary gland in your brain has started making hormones! We love you very much.
Jared and I are back from San Antonio and seeing Jared's family. My family, his family, and some of our close friends now know our news. Tomorrow, I'll tell my co-workers and we'll tell our church small group. And Tuesday, the news goes up on Facebook.
Lots of Facebook friends have been announcing their pregnancies in the last six weeks. This seems to be the year of the baby!
In the last week, I think I've had two really good days and three fairly bad days, regarding nausea and exhaustion. I'm hoping good days will soon outnumber the bad, and that my work won't be affected. I'm ready for that second trimester, and feeling much better! The first trimester is actually thirteen weeks long, so there's two weeks left.
Two days until we go public, and three days until we hear Jellybean's heartbeat!
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Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Not a Secret Anymore!
It's Saturday evening, and we're in Texas! We told my parents on Thursday night, Jared's at lunch on Friday, Jared's grandparents on Friday night, and started calling friends today. Most everyone has been very excited and supportive, and it's been fun to see folks' reactions.
I gave both my parents memory jars last year for their birthdays. They were decorated glass jars full of strips of paper with good, funny or touching memories from our lives so far. I also included things that I was thankful they did and that I appreciated about them. So, for Mother's Day, Mom wanted more memories...my brother, Thomas, helped me fill up the jar again. We also wrote some more for Dad. We kept one or two out for each parent to read first. Thomas had some great ones, and then it was my turn....both of their secrets said, "I'll always remember the look on your face when you found out you're going to be a mimi/grandad".
We went to San Antonio's Riverwalk with Jared's parents after we arrived, and had lunch on the river. After eating, we gave Jared's mom her Mother's Day gifts. First, we had a card from each of us, with a gift card inside. Then, we gave her another card, and the inside said, "I can't wait to meet you! Love, your first grandchild".
I gave both my parents memory jars last year for their birthdays. They were decorated glass jars full of strips of paper with good, funny or touching memories from our lives so far. I also included things that I was thankful they did and that I appreciated about them. So, for Mother's Day, Mom wanted more memories...my brother, Thomas, helped me fill up the jar again. We also wrote some more for Dad. We kept one or two out for each parent to read first. Thomas had some great ones, and then it was my turn....both of their secrets said, "I'll always remember the look on your face when you found out you're going to be a mimi/grandad".
We're off to dinner to celebrate Jared's grandparents' 60th wedding anniversary. It's expected to be a crazy, raucous event...we've rested up, so hopefully everything'll go well! :)
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
One More Day
Jared and I have been so glad to have had the last two months to enjoy Jellybean by ourselves. I'm glad we have waited to tell people. This way, we've had time to talk things out, bond, and make this the new "normal" for us. Tomorrow, we'll start having to facilitate it being the new "normal" for others, and start having to hear all sorts of advice, questions, suggestions, and pregnancy stories. But, we're ready now, because we're totally comfortable and secure in it.
I'll do my best to keep the blog updated over the next few days with pictures and reactions. Jellybean, you're about to go public!
I'll do my best to keep the blog updated over the next few days with pictures and reactions. Jellybean, you're about to go public!
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Beat Goes On
Yesterday was Jared's first day at his new job. He's enjoying it so far--helpful co-workers, a relaxed atmosphere, etc. We hope this will be a long-term place for him!
My job is going ok, too. Administration and I have spoken about next year's possibilities, so I'll be waiting to see where that goes. My students will have an Easter egg hunt on Thursday--I think we have close to 375 eggs to share amongst the 20 of them. I won't be there, though....I'm taking the day off to travel to Alabama with my family. My mother's side of the family gets together for an Easter reunion every year. It'll be hard to be there around everyone and not say anything about Jellybean.
I have both grandmothers left in this world, but they both have developed dementia. One doesn't know me from a rabbit, the other calls me everything from Bethany to Maribell to trying to order lunch from me. It makes me a little sad that, even if they live long enough to be great-grandmothers (for the sixth time, in one of the cases, the first in the other), that they won't understand or comprehend it, and will not be able to develop a relationship with their great-grandchild.
On the other side of the coin, Jared's grandmother is quick-witted, smart-mouthed, has at least one glass of wine a day and Wednesdays are naked days. Mmhm.
My job is going ok, too. Administration and I have spoken about next year's possibilities, so I'll be waiting to see where that goes. My students will have an Easter egg hunt on Thursday--I think we have close to 375 eggs to share amongst the 20 of them. I won't be there, though....I'm taking the day off to travel to Alabama with my family. My mother's side of the family gets together for an Easter reunion every year. It'll be hard to be there around everyone and not say anything about Jellybean.
I have both grandmothers left in this world, but they both have developed dementia. One doesn't know me from a rabbit, the other calls me everything from Bethany to Maribell to trying to order lunch from me. It makes me a little sad that, even if they live long enough to be great-grandmothers (for the sixth time, in one of the cases, the first in the other), that they won't understand or comprehend it, and will not be able to develop a relationship with their great-grandchild.
On the other side of the coin, Jared's grandmother is quick-witted, smart-mouthed, has at least one glass of wine a day and Wednesdays are naked days. Mmhm.
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