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There was snow falling outside when I woke up for the second time this morning. (The first time was to make coffee for Jake and kiss him goodbye before he left for work. When you’re pregnant you get to go back to sleep after that.) As I laid there with my head sunken in the pillow, watching the big flakes sprinkle down from the sky out my window, I started thinking. (Which is something I’ve been doing a lot of lately. Because when all you can do is lay in bed for three months, you think a lot.) It went something like this…

I’m 14 weeks pregnant today! And boy do I love Jake. There’s no possible way I could have made it through the first trimester without him taking care of my every need, and going to the store to get all my random cravings, currently of which are Fruity Pebbles and these awesome gluten free burritos from Whole Foods. I have to get out of bed. Ugh. I have sooo much work to catch up on. But I’m so cozy… Down comforters really are the best. And it’s snowing outside. Mother Nature needs to make up her mind, more so in the direction of spring instead of the random winter tantrums. The dogs probably need to go outside. I wish they wouldn’t bark at the neighbors every time we let them out. I don’t want people to be afraid of them. How many bowls of Fruity Pebbles did I have yesterday? I wonder how realistic Grey’s Anatomy is versus really working in a hospital. And it’s too bad Harry Potter isn’t real. I could use a wand to organize my office right now. Oh yeah, there’s a baby growing inside of me! No one tells you how much being pregnant hurts, though. They should really warn you a little more. Ok, I really need to get out of bed now… 

Fortunately, for the first time in what feels like a verrry long time, I really actually made out of bed to get back to work! This is an extremely good thing, because you can only watch so much TV and read so many books and do so much thinking before you start to go a little stir crazy. (As you can clearly see from my random thought process.) The morning sickness isn’t totally gone yet, and I’m still getting over the last of an awful cold virus I got last week, but the point is, I’M BACK! Back to the blog, back to editing (LOTS of editing), back to actually communicating in the real world and not being stuck talking to my dogs and the TV all day.

And I just have to give a shout out to all my clients right now, for being so kind and patient with me, for being so understanding! I really have the best clients in the world :) To prove it, here’s a little peek at everything coming soon to a blog near you! (That would be this blog, just fyi.)

And on that note, I think it’s time for a bowl of Fruity Pebbles. Happy Monday everyone!

I’ve been really sick for almost a month and a half now. So sick that it’s kept me from blogging, editing, working in general. I’ve pretty much been stuck in bed 90% of the time. When people heard I was sick and asked what I had, I always gave a very vague answer. Usually something along the lines of a stomach bug. Which wasn’t exactly lying…

Yep, for those of you who haven’t caught on yet, I’m pregnant!! (It’s still kind of surreal for me to say that.) There’s a little bambino growing inside my belly. And I’ve had the worst morning sickness to prove it. While I don’t mean to throw myself a pity party, when I imagined being pregnant I was under the naive impression that morning sickness was just that, a bit of nausea in the morning then you’d be good to go. (I blame it on Hollywood, they never make it look bad in the movies.)

Not so. At least, not for me and this pregnancy. As the pharmacist so frankly put it when Jake went to pick up some medicine for me, “Morning sickness is the price women pay to have a child. And some, well, they have to pay a lot more than others.” Awesome.

That being said, I have a lot more to be grateful about than I do to complain! Jake and I were waiting until our first prenatal appointment before we announced our pregnancy, to make sure that things were progressing properly and that the baby seemed to be healthy. We just had that appointment last week, and I am so thrilled to say that everything looks great!! We got to see an ultrasound and the doctor was able to find the heartbeat immediately, and she said the spine looked good. In fact, the little peanut was so active and squirmy that our doctor had a hard time measuring him! (I say him because Jake and I both think it’s going to be a boy, but we won’t know for a while longer.) Good stuff.

So here is my official announcement. A little Uribe will be joining the world this year!

It’s funny, I’d dreamed for a while of the fun ways I’d write this blog post, all the cute and surprising things I’d do to announce it to friends and family. I’ll admit, this isn’t exactly how I had it planned out… But hey, this is real life. And we’re having a baby in October :)