Set to Sell!

I am very happy to report that I have finally gotten Jeff to see things my way and agree to sell our house! Actually, Sylvia... I should be thanking your husband, Craig... as he was the one to get Jeff to see things my way! :) He comes home after talking to Craig and says he agreed with me and we should do it! Funny how it's only a good idea when his friends agree! Oh well, at least he agrees- that's the important part! :)

We will probably lose about $25,000 just to get out of our house, but ... I feel it will be worth it. We will need something bigger with a 3rd child on the way. And so we've decided to rent a bigger place down the road in Huntley until we know what we're doing. I want to move home... I'm tired of the long winters and being so far from my family, and I hate paying such HIGH property taxes.
Jeff would like to stay. He feels his opportunity to become a GM is still here, in the midwest. I'm not so sure. I am nervous about him being in the restaurant industry in this economy! But still, agreeing to stay and to rent is a good compromise.
At least then we don't run the risk of foreclosure if, God forbid... he does lose his job?!
We may buy something out west and rent it out as an investment or as a future place to return to!? Who knows... I suppose we'll cross all the bridges when we come to them. I just hope we can find a buyer for our townhouse, and soon... so we can move before I get too big, or have a newborn on my hands!

We're no stranger to it... moving while pregnant or with children... I was 5 months pregnant with Austin when we moved in Vegas, and then AJ was 10 months old when we moved to Illinois. So, it will be tough, but it can be done! I will sleep better at night knowing we do not have a mortgage hanging over our head! :)

I have so much work to do though. Cleaning, organizing, touching up paint, cleaning carpets... staging to sell. It will be tough (understatement) keeping up with the house while living in it! I've also been selling off whatever I am no longer interested in keeping or moving... which is so much more than I realized! We sure have accumulated a lot of unnecessary stuff in the last 3 years! Wow, I'm overwhelmed!

But my mom is coming out to visit March 11-17... I am SO excited! It will be great to see her, and difficult to make myself be productive while she is here! But it will provide me more free time to get ready.

Next week, will be the end of my first trimester! I will officially be 12 weeks pregnant and my chance of miscarriage will drop dramatically. Not to mention, I should see the morning sickness subside as well... I hope! It's gotten much better once I figured out my prenatals were making me sick. Flinstones vitamins have done the trick!

I think that's all the clatter running around my brain at the moment?! As if anyone wants to read my brain rants... :) Sorry my postings have been so dull lately... so much on the mind.

Our family keeps growing...

We just found out that Jeff's cousin and his wife are pregnant, due one month after us! Woo hoo!! :) We are so happy and excited for them and the entire family! Wish we lived closer so our babies, the cousins... could play. Also, My cousin and his wife are due next month with their little girl! I can't wait to meet her this May when we go back to CA.

SO I had my first apt. on Thursday, and I got an ultrasound! SO exciting to see the baby... and it actually looked like a baby! Things must have changed since I had Austin, technology wise I mean... because I remember Austin looked like a jumping kidney bean... or maybe I was further along for this 1st apt. ?? I don't know, but I could see the head, ears, neck, arms, hands, elbows, legs, knees and feet... so crazy! At only 10 weeks! Very exciting! Probably most exciting was seeing the heart beating... and hearing the doc. say, 'everything looks perfect'...... 'ahhh' my sigh of relief!

I am looking forward to my 2nd trimester now... just a couple more weeks! I'm counting down the minutes and hours hoping that the morning/all day sickness goes away with the 1st trimester. So far I've lost 11 pounds... which is great since I was overweight to begin with... but hardly worth the misery that took place to lose it! I think I'd much prefer to gain and feel good!? But I suppose if there is a benefit to being sick, it would be the weight loss! I was so sick with my last pregnancy I lost 18 pounds.

I really need to find something else to write about beside pregnancy! You'd think it was my first or something!? :)
That's it, that's all I've got going on!

8 Weeks & Counting

I feel like all I ever talk about or write about these days is my pregnancy! It's been all consuming!
I have about 4 weeks left of my 1st trimester and I'm hoping that all of this awful sickness will be gone by then!!! Let's hope!

Today may have just been the worst day yet?! Hunger pangs, nausea, sensitivity to smells, food adversity.
You never know how you're going to feel from one moment to the next, what you'll be able to eat and keep down or not.... it's tough! It's amazing to me how quickly I forgot how awful this was! I was just here with Jack about 2 1/2 years ago. And it never let up with him, ever. For 8 months! I'm so glad this is my last pregnancy! I wish I could just skip all this and have a baby!

I have a high pain threshold, but I'm impatient! I really don't have the patience for this ongoing sickness... I just feel so bad for my kids! I've been feeding them whatever I will have to smell the least to prepare, which means a lot of processed foods! Uncrustables, Cereal, frozen microwavable meals... it's bad... but they are in heaven with it! Oh well...

God I hope this passes soon! I feel like such a whimpy whinner, and so lazy and unproductive!! :(
I know it will all be worth it in the end, but right now... it's tough to stomach, literally!

My first dr. apt. is in 5 days. I'm anxious to hear the heartbeat! I think It'll all be much more real to me then! I'll feel some relief I think, when I know everything is okay.

I worry too, about how the dynamics in the home will change with 3. I guess it's a little late to be worrying about that now, but I hope Jack doesn't feel to jealous or resentful. I hope that it's not too much chaos. It's so important to me that it's harmonious in the home, and I'm nervous a little bit about being outnumbered by our kids... but even with our hesitations... Jeff and I both agree that our family just does not feel complete yet. We believe that it will feel complete with the birth of our 3rd child.
Sort of like we are following a pre-destined course for our future and it's almost out of our control or something!?
I don't know.

Little Miracles!

So I jinxed it! I was feeling so great, earlier in the week I said to Jeff... I hope everything's okay!? I feel too good to be pregnant!
The very next day, I kid you not I was so sick I could hardly move...and it continued that way for the past 3 days. Today was the first day I was able to keep down food, a vitamin, do some light cooking, dishes, laundry... I'm so grateful to have this reprieve and I'm hoping it lasts!!!
I just read my weekly baby center update that notified me that Baby Sugden was building ribs, heart and brains this past week...as well as hands!! Busy little embryo! Hope it's putting it all together right!
I guess that completely justifies how tired and sick I was feeling... for crying out loud, I'm building a person here! Wow! What a concept! I didn't pay much attention the first, two times around. For whatever reason... this third one has got me thinking!
What a real miracle it is, really!!