For those of you who have read my last blog, you are on the up and up as to what my life has been like so far.
For those of you who are new to my blog world, here are the cliff notes:
I started writing in the blogworld as a single girl in her mid-twenties, living in the city with my dog, looking for love, while enjoying being with my friends and family. I watched each of my friends find the loves of their life and start families. I sat by the sidelines and loved them and their new families and longed to join them. I was on and off with a guy who, was a wonderful man, but just not for me, no matter how much both of us tried. When I finally was comfortable in my singleness (I hate the cliche but it's true, at least for me), I found love unexpectedly.
Dan pursued me for over a year and I would blow him off time and time again. I finally gave in and gave him a chance. I never looked back.
Over the past two years, our lives have been turned upside down. We have seen each other though a lot in the couple years we have dated...his lay off, his father's wedding, all of my GI issues and ultimately my diagnosis, moving, family members dying, and all of the growing pains that are involved in both of us, being single for so long, coming together as a couple.
The biggest and best journey is coming right down the pike.
We are going to be parents this March.
I can't believe I even wrote that.
We found out we were expecting on June 17, 2013. As of today, I am 5 weeks and 2 days (in my 6th week). We have our first doctors appointment on July 24th. We are not telling the world as of yet, besides our family and my close friends.
It's funny, you dream in your mind of how you find out you are pregnant and we romanticize how things are going to go. Sterling, every Monday, started shredding things when I left to get my morning coffee. I finally called the vet and she asked me if something was happening at home with hormones or anything. It made me think, but truly didn't think ANYTHING would come of it. Well, when you least expect it. I called the girls and took Dan out to dinner. It took a few days for it to really set in. One of the best parts is that our friends and family are so excited. We are, though, taking it slow, since we have not seen the heartbeat yet and it's still very early. I am indeed having some symptoms, such as mild cramping, sore chest, and had the worst heartburn yesterday. It is so hard to "slow it down and wait for the appointment to confirm that everything is "a ok".
For now, each day I try to enjoy it and not "worry" so much. We can only pray for the best and the rest is in God's hands.
I will share though, the day after we found out we were going to be a family of four (Sterling, our Bernese Mountain Dog is going to be a big sister), I was driving to a meeting in the morning and heard this song on my drive.
I now play it every single day for the baby. I don't know why this song now has a deeper meaning to me, but blame it on the old hormones!
