The first in a long line of posts that will contain the words 'nausea' and 'napping'

Thank you for all the good wishes and encouraging comments. If I haven’t gotten around to replying to you personally, please forgive me, I have been very busy napping. During the two or three hours a day that I am at least somewhat coherent, I have been trying to finish up my Christmas shopping, packing for our upcoming trip to New Hampshire, baking cookies for a Christmas party, doing my best to keep Christopher from decorating the dog with the Christmas lights that I took down from the attic and plan to string along the staircase sometime before the New Year but will probably never get around to, ordering Christmas cards, wrapping gifts, relocating the dryer from the middle of my living room to some other less conspicuous place in order to make room for the tree, wiping down the ½ inch layer of sheetrock dust from the dining room table, trying to squeeze in a shower in at least once this week, and hoping to accomplish at least half of these things before collapsing into a puddle of tears. So, you see, I’ve barely had any time to even think about this pregnancy. Thank God the nausea and the bone-crushing exhaustion are there to remind me or I’d be halfway through the New Years Eve champagne stash already just trying to deal with the #$%^&*@ holiday season.

I did manage to take another pregnancy test (or two) and the line has been getting progressively darker, and what with the nausea and the napping and the almost constant peeing (yes, already), I can pretty much say with confidence those seven or so pregnancy tests were incredibly and annoyingly vague, but nonetheless accurate. I can officially cross “Get Pregnant” off of my to-do list. Only seventy hundred more items to go.

We are still debating when to tell our friends and families. With Christopher we told everyone around the sixth week or so. We see the majority of our close friends and family on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day so it would seem like the perfect time, but I don’t really want to make the whole day about me. On the other hand, the minute that someone notices that I have arrived bearing the usual armload of gifts and pies, but strangely absent from the assortment of goodies are the staples of any halfway decent holiday celebration – champagne and more champagne – the secret will pretty much be out. I think it would be fair to say that I have earned myself somewhat of a reputation for my love of all things bubbly and alcoholic.

If thinking of myself in terms of being a “mother of two” wasn’t enough to drive the point home that I am no longer as young as I like to think I am, the fact that I asked for this for Christmas pretty much put the nail in the Young and Carefree coffin. I’m embarrassed to tell you how excited I am about it. I’m also embarrassed to tell you how badly I need it, as the last time that I “washed” the kitchen floors with something other than a few paper towels and a some strategically aimed sprays of Windex was … I don’t know when. Sometime in the spring? Of last year?

Christopher, of course, will be getting Thomas and a whole shitload of Thomas train tracks (or what we are calling “Thomas” train tracks but is really some brand I’ve never heard of but couldn’t pass up a 70-piece set of for $19.99 at the Christmas Tree Shop). We will also be asking Santa for an addition on the house because, with the expected mid-August arrival of an extra person and his or her requisite three metric tons of baby gear, a washer and dryer that most likely will still be in the dining room come September, and our own scale model of the Island of Sodor, discount-store style, I haven’t a goddamn clue where the hell we’ll be putting everything.

Comments

[Dawn]

WOOHOO!! Congrats! I almost forgot about the constant peeing when newly PG.

And at least it is not the Island of "Mordor". That's a whole different kettle of hobbitts.

[SarahA]

Congratulations Kelli! You are pregnant at the exact same time I was 2 years ago (Wow, 2 years already?) and we told everyone at Christmas also. I'm so excited for you!

[Lisa S (et al, aka Stolidoli)]

Hey - did I tell you I was pregnant too? Not sure when we're due yet - end of July or beginning of August. We told our parents already. Thought they needed some time to adjust to the idea of us having four. FOUR. Obviously I need some adjustment time, too. Anyway, congrats, and you're not alone!

[Pam]

Whoop! Just a short trip to the stretchy maternity yoga pants!

Also, I have totally asked for the Bissell Hardwood SteamClean Floor Cleaner for Christmas - so, yeah, I figure romantic Christmas gifts fly totally out the window the minute you are expecting child #2.

[Pam]

Totally crashing Kelli's party here:

Lisa, is your pregnancy the reason you aren't updating your blog?

[Leggy]

I'm so happy for you.

I'm sorry you feel like crap- I guess it goes with the territory. But you are right, at least it reminds you that you are PG.

Also, I'm with Pam, Lisa- where the hell have you been?

[Aimee]

Holy Moly! Where have I been? Congratulations!!!!! X's a million!
I'm so happy you are pregnant! How are you feeling?? Yay! Yahoo! I'm so excited for you!

[Leggy]

Requesting an update as its been a while. Hope you are okay, that the holidays were good, and that your PG is going well. Not posting = people get worried.