Thankful...

Well, clearly I have explaining to do! My last post was in November, of last year. I've been busy? It wouldn't be a lie. It wouldn't be an exact truth either because I've spent much of the last year doing nothing in between great spurts of too much and for that, I'm extremely thankful. Why would I be thankful that I was run ragged and spent the last 12 months in a blur? Simple. The only cooking I had to do yesterday was making sure I ingested enough carbs to keep my 32 week unknown gender of a baby happy. Yup, on May 25th I found out that I was pregnant with my second child. It was my son's first Field Day and I, on a whim, decided to take that pregnancy test as early as possible. Just to know and to be brutally honest, so I wasn't ambushed at said Field Day. I have lots of those "women problems" as my brother puts it. I took that test, was giddy as could be, made my phone calls, text messages and told as many other friends as possible that day. In the real world I'm not so good at keeping certain things secret.

Now, here's the thing. When I was pregnant with my son, who is now 6, I had a pretty mild pregnancy. Nausea was a daily thing but random and by about 14 weeks, gone completely. Every now and then from there on out, I might be hit with something that would trigger an "ugh" feeling but it wasn't horrible. THIS, this that I have been experiencing for about a week before I took that pregnancy test? It has been horrible. I spent most of the first trimester on the couch, watching my son play Legos and watch tv. I had a Godsend in the form of Zofran and eventually, I was able to get back on my feet. I had a myriad of issues with this pregnancy and again, while I am extremely thankful, it has been rough. Everything non-essential fell to the wayside. Sometimes, showers were non-essential.

Here I am, with less than 10 weeks to go and because of my child being completely uncooperative at the 20 week ultrasound, I am totally unprepared. Since I haven't been able to work on the nursery, do the baby wash or even buy things, I've spent my time organizing myself and working on crafts and cards. I've hinted to Santa that perhaps a 10 inch Acer would be an appropriate gift for me. Obviously I can't lug around the 17 inch Dell with a baby and it would take up so much room in the diaper bag...

It's obvious that I've played this game with hubby before.

Anyways, like I said, I have been working on projects. I have a wonderful Stampin' Up! demonstrator who I will link to soon. She hosts workshops and those have been a blessing for me. I have some beautiful cards to share from those workshops plus many of my own creations. I've also begun making cards to include with a friend's shipments for Adopt-a-Platoon with our church and will show those as well.

In the meantime, I'm going to tackle the housekeeping basics while my son gets started on some Christmas crafts. I'll be sure to share those too, sooner than later!