New Blog...woohoo!

Hello Blogspot! I'm finally leaving the Xanga world to come here where all the cool kids are. If you're a friend of Keri's, then I probably already anonymously read your blog! Ha! My blog certainly won't be as interesting or enlightening as many of yours, though, but here I am.

Doug deployed for our third deployment on January 3rd. Two days later, on January 5th, I was enjoying my first glass of wine for the day when I decided to take the last pregnancy test in the house. (Doug and I hadn't been 'actively trying' or anything, just not preventing!) I really didn't think much of it as I was opening the package, just that God must have other plans for us, and we'll just keep 'not trying' next year. You can probably imagine what happens next!
Yes, about three minutes later, polishing off my glass of wine, I picked up the stick and spewed wine all over the bathroom. It was both the scariest and most exciting feeling of my life (not the wine spewing)!

Since then, it's been a lot of ups and downs. Doug and I couldn't be happier, but being the worry-wart that I am, I stress about every little thing. I've already been to the hospital 6 times, two ultrasounds, several calls to the advice nurse. (It wasn't completely unwarranted, but hopefully mostly!) I won't go into all the details now, because I'll just wind up stressing myself out more.

Anyway, for the past 5 weeks, I've been praying my hardest and taking every precaution that I can: no caffeine (okay, okay, for the first couple weeks, I weened myself off of sweet tea by diluting it with water!), obviously no more wine (ha!), sleeping on my left side (can anyone explain that?), prenatal vitamins daily, etc. Doug and I aren't telling anyone except family and closest friends (and apparently anyone reading this blog, but I imagine that will just be Keri and maybe Marie!) So if you're reading this and wondering, yes, it's still a secret, I just figured this is a pretty safe forum to talk about it, as I'm not planning to tell anyone I have this blog for a few more weeks!

So today I am approximately 7 weeks and 5 days. I still have about 5 more weeks until I'm out of the danger zone, though I really don't think I'll ever be out of it again! I'm so excited for this new part of life. I can't believe I was so reluctant to have kids for so many years. I could be on my way to being the next Duggar family by now!

Okay new friends and old, I'm out for now. Please pray for the health of my baby, Doug's safety, and my peace of mind!