GIRL!

We’re having a daughter!

Carter’s getting a little sister to terrorize and protect forever and ever and ever.

I’m getting a baby girl to dress up and teach all sorts of things to like how to be a strong, smart woman and not take any bullshit from anybody.

Jason gets to show me how a father should treat his daughter her entire life, not just for the first 14 years, and gets my full permission to fall in love with another girl.

We’re over the moon excited!

Let the name debating and baby clothes shopping commence!!

Mommies with daughters…tell me what I should be most excited about!

Hi there! It’s been awhile, hasn’t it? Remember back in early November when I promised to write every day for a month? That went the same direction as most diets I partake in, my last relationship before my husband and any attempts to get myself on a schedule with housework. Starts off strong, has so much potential, and then, POOF! Nothing.

Silence.

I apologize to any one who got really excited to hear from me more often. I’m really bad at committing to things. I’m sometimes flaky and very, very distracted.

I considered shutting down my blog. I would think of posts that people would find interesting, amusing, informative and/or funny and then direct my attention to something else so that I wouldn’t have time to write.

I was purposely avoiding my little blog here in an effort to maintain my sanity while juggling a part-time job that has somehow gotten increasingly more demanding, a full-time 15-month old that has also gotten increasingly more demanding, a holiday season that gets more demanding every year and baking another baby.

Say what?! Yep, then that happened. We found out we were expecting again!

I won’t say that this pregnancy was unexpected, but it’s still a little shocking when plans become reality. When something you spent awhile talking about becomes something you are now experiencing.

So now I’m pregnant, and I can’t help but think, given the state of my first pregnancy, how helpful and amusing (and, let’s be honest, super sarcastic…) some posts may be on being preggo with a toddler and juggling two children on top of my own personal craziness.

So there we are! While my posts were sparse my nausea certainly wasn’t.

Welcome to round 2!

Along with billions of people around the world, I swooned over the royal wedding on Friday…full on wake up at 5am and stay glued to my couch until the balcony kiss-type swoon. I remembered my wedding day and remembered feeling just like a princess. Imagine actually becoming a princess on your wedding day!

This post on the queen this afternoon had me swooning all over again.

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When we last met, I was a frustrated pregnant woman who desperately wanted to get that baby out and get my body back to some sense of normalcy. Three weeks and one long labor later, I am realizing that ‘normal’ no longer means the same thing it used to, and obtaining normalcy is more appropriate as a long term goal than a short term one. Long term as in maybe next year, or five years.

I now fully realize that life, like my boobs, will never, ever be the same again.

On September 2nd at 4:34pm, J and I welcomed Carter Thomas into the world via non-emergency c-section.

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BOY!!

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