Morning Sickness, Exhaustion and Life Lately

We continue to feel so blessed everyday that God has chosen us to be parents. Lately, I have had to remind myself that these wonderful symptoms are just that, a blessing. I thought I was past all this nauseousness but it came back to rear its ugly head last week. Not to mention that I can't sit down for 5 minutes without falling asleep...making a baby is hard work. I really do feel blessed that we are able to make it without me having to look for a temporary job right now. I don't know how you other women do it, especially when you already have one kid. A lot of my friends have told me to live it up right now because next time around I won't be able to lay around like this.

Poor Jeremy, he has been so good through all of this too. He is so sweet to tell me to go lay down and take a nap when he knows I can hardly stay awake when we are trying to get something done. And the food aversions and cravings...oh dear! I could eat pizza or spaghetti every day for every meal! He really has been a trooper when I change my mind 5 times about what we are having for dinner and appeasing me when I want something I would hardly ever eat otherwise, i.e. Guthries, which I have craved a lot lately. I don't really think that I have had any weird cravings yet but he seems to think that grape juice and popcorn (my current bedtime snack) is crazy.

I have started a pregnancy journal/belly book so we have been taking a belly picture every week for the book. Here are a few that I have uploaded to the computer:

Let me explain the week 10 picture...my wedding dress has been hanging in our guest bedroom closet waiting to be cleaned and preserved since our wedding day. Now that we need the space I finally decided it was time to get it taken care of but not without one last time to try it on....alas, the 10 week picture! I have only gained 3 pounds so far, not too bad.

In other news, we have been working like crazy on our house every spare minute to get it ready to put it on the market and if all goes as planned then we will have a for sale sign in our yard by the end of the week. This week has been pure madness with people tiling our guest bathroom, waiting for the painters to come paint the outside of our house, painting the kitchen, and other little things that have had to be done.