Spring Finally Arrived!

The weather finally got nice, and I am so happy!  :-D It just puts me in a good mood.  Work is going better too.  Also, I applied to a math teaching position in the Exeter School District last Wednesday, so we'll see if anything comes of that.  Tim decided to start up our tutoring services again for extra money, and he got his first client today.  They bought a "package" of sessions so it's $250 up front.  That is good news too.  :-)
I have a cold, and I talked to the OB doctor at church about what is safe for me to take and she suggested Clariten first.  So, I started taking that today so hopefully it will work.  I pretty much have seasonal allergies, and was told when we moved here that your allergies get worse from living here, so that is wonderful. :-) 
My first doctor's appointment is two weeks from yesterday!  I'm very excited to go and see my baby!  Hopefully it is healthy and normal!  I don't think we'll be able to find out the sex, but somewhere around 17-20 weeks we can.  I really want to know what it is so I can decide on a nursery theme.  I have some ideas, but I don't know for sure what I want to do.
One last thing, on Hillside's new website, http://www.hillsidepa.org/, you can WATCH videos of the sermons now.   Tim has one up from a few weeks ago, and he is preaching this coming Sunday, May 1st, so look for that one to be up next week!
Hope everyone has a great rest of the week!

8 Weeks!

I made it to the two-month mark!  Here is how my baby is developing according to http://www.babycenter.com/:
New this week: Webbed fingers and toes are poking out from your baby's hands and feet, his eyelids practically cover his eyes, breathing tubes extend from his throat to the branches of his developing lungs, and his "tail" is just about gone. In his brain, nerve cells are branching out to connect with one another, forming primitive neural pathways. You may be daydreaming about your baby as one sex or the other, but the external genitals still haven't developed enough to reveal whether you're having a boy or a girl. Either way, your baby — about the size of a kidney bean — is constantly moving and shifting, though you still can't feel it.
Yesterday I had a bazzar experience.  Tim and I were putting groceries in our car at the store and a man drove up asking directions to a restaurant.  I walked away to put the cart away as Tim was talking to him.  On my way back to the car I see the man jerk his head and make some kind of loud noise, and then drive off.  When we got in the car Tim told me that after he gave the directions the man started to say thank you, but sneezed, so it went something like, "A CHOOOO! Thank you!" and for some reason, the situation and the way Tim said it just struck me as hillarious and I started laughing and couldn't stop.  I was laughing for a good 5 minutes or so, and then all of a sudden started bawling.  Now, I have laughed so hard I cried before, but this felt different.  I was leaning forward, laughing then all this emotion just started pouring out, and I'm making sobbing noises and I look at Tim and say, "I don't think I'm laughing anymore."  But as soon as I said that, I did start laughing and then I was laughing and crying at the same time.  Talk about mood swing!  That was a really strange one!!  On the way home from school earlier that afternoon I was thinking about my dad for some reason and just reliving everything that happened, and I think that kind of slipped in my brain when I was laughing which could have triggered the crying but I'm not sure.  It was a weird feeling though!
And then this morning when I was bending over to get something, a nerve in my lower back spasmed and it's been hurting all day.  I can barely get out of a chair, and walking is a chore.  This is not good since Tim and I have a 6 hour car ride tonight to Boston.  The only thing I can take is Tylenol, and it hasn't helped.
Well, those are my crazy pregnancy stories!  Hope you have a great weekend!

Happy Hump Day!

Well, I've had my first major craving.  Monday night I was really wanting a Big Mac from McDonald's.  Don't ask me why because I've never had one!  But it was bed time so I just ignored it and went to bed, and decided I could have one the next day.  On Tuesday morning, I packed a can of soup for lunch, but when lunch time came around, I REALLY wanted that Big Mac.  I texted Tim, who was home, and asked if he could bring me one.  Because he is such a wonderful, caring, compassionate, husband, he did!  It took a while, and I only had 4 minutes to eat once he got there, but don't you know I finished the burger and fries with time to spare! :-)  I have to say I wasn't that impressed with the famous Big Mac.  It was good, but I think I still prefer the Quarter Pounder with Cheese.
I haven't been really craving anything else specific, except I've been eating a lot of cheese.  I'll just grab a couple of slices from the fridge a couple of times a day.
I was looking online the other day for teaching jobs, and actually found one!  A district nearby has an opening for a secondary math teacher, so I've been trying to get everything I need to apply online. (Just waiting on my letters of recommendation)  If I could teach for a few years it would really help pull us out of debt quickly and we won't have to move.  Our townhome is pretty expensive, and if I stay as an assistant we will probably have to move after our lease is up in December to help cut costs.
Well, the cat has done it.  He attacked me again yesterday.  He didn't actually bite me, but he tried, so I moved all of his things to the basement and locked him in there.  He's allowed to be out during the day when Tim is home and I'm not, and I haven't locked him up today, but his stuff is not coming back up so hopefully he'll be down there more often, and especially when the baby is here, Max will be kept in the basement with the door closed.
So I'll be 7 weeks pregnant on Friday.  Here is a picture from babycenter.com of what the embryo looks like and here is what they said about his/her development this week:

The big news this week: Hands and feet are emerging from developing arms and legs — although they look more like paddles at this point than the tiny, pudgy extremities you're daydreaming about holding and tickling. Technically, your baby is still considered an embryo and has something of a small tail, which is an extension of her tailbone. The tail will disappear within a few weeks, but that's the only thing getting smaller. Your baby has doubled in size since last week and now measures half an inch long, about the size of a blueberry.
If you could see inside your womb, you'd spot eyelid folds partially covering her peepers, which already have some color, as well as the tip of her nose and tiny veins beneath parchment-thin skin. Both hemispheres of your baby's brain are growing, and her liver is churning out red blood cells until her bone marrow forms and takes over this role. She also has an appendix and a pancreas, which will eventually produce the hormone insulin to aid in digestion. A loop in your baby's growing intestines is bulging into her umbilical cord, which now has distinct blood vessels to carry oxygen and nutrients to and from her tiny body.