This is it.
Our Trip To Hawaii -
JD carried me around most of the time. You see, when I am on vacation, I like to RELAX. You should see the pictures of me being carried around in my litter.
Just kidding. I hopped on his back for the picture, and then he insisted on carrying me for the next five minutes. Seriously! He is overly strong for his height. He weighs more than you would think because his muscles are so dense. Sometimes I wonder if our kids are going to come looking like little Hulks.
We also saw this:
Beautiful Wa’pio (sp?) Valley…This was the day….
before…
we…
learned…
we…
were…
PREGNANT!!!!!
I took the test in Hawaii, and unlike the other times, I only needed to look twice (or five times). Anyway, I pretty much freaked out. I just thought I was getting car sick a lot, and had eaten too many shrimp. And I was tired from jetlag. But noooooo…it was the hormones. (Or so says What to Expect When You’re Expecting) which I promptly bought as soon as we were on the mainland.
Anyhow, I had really mixed feelings about telling people (this is my first pregnancy, and I am nervous about problems). But my dad and his wife had chartered a deep-sea fishing trip for our last day there. There was no way I was getting on that boat. No way in Hates. Luckily, I have pretty kind parents, and the let me stay at the hotel and sleep while they went up and down, back and forth, all day long. Which is what I feel like anyway.
I have also had mixed feelings about telling anyone else, because I am so scared of having a miscarriage or some other problem, and this is the first grandchild for both of our families, and we have been feeling the pressure from both sides even before we got pregnant. So I am kind of nervous.
But when I started this blog, I started it in the hopes of being a mother soon, and I hoped to find some women that I could look to for advice, ideas, help, support etc. So since that is the reason…I guess I had better let you all know. And ask these questions:
What the heck is the deal with the feeling nauseous all stinking day long, all night long, and never throwing up?
What is the deal with the new ability to sleep 12-14 hours per day?
Why am I so nervous and worried?
Maybe because we are between HMO’s…what the heck were we thinking? It will be ok…JD’s kicks in in a few weeks. But I think I am going to have to bite the bullet with the first visit and pay the big bucks.
Headaches? Who has those from pregnancy? Apparently…me.
Will it end?
Okay. I know I said I had What To Expect When You’re Expecting. And yes, it answers all of those questions. In a very boring, non-committal, unsympathetic way. So please…tell me. Tell me I am not alone, and that I am normally crazy.
Beyond the feeling crappy, I am pretty excited. Really excited. I don’t have to be a SAHP for the rest of my life! I get to be a SAHPP! And then a SAHM!
Also, congratulations to Shelah, who is due around the same time as me…I read it on her blog way later than she announced it, and I was too shy to say a late congrats there (I am feeling your pain with the 1st Trimester stuff). Yay for Winter babies! I am so happy for both of us! And to any one else who is pregnant who I haven’t said congrats to yet…I am still catching up on the reading 
Congratulations!
My daughter in law is also expecting. She told us very early on and we too worry a bit. She is only 2 months now.
They could not keep it secret, they were so excited, their first child and our first grandchild.
Comment by Wanderingrose — May 19, 2006 @ 2:32 am
Congratulations! I am so excited for you!
When DH and I are expecting, we always know right when and it is a LONG nine months. We usually tell people right away, I am a wuss and I want to know if something were to happen, I would want/need a support system.
I don’t know about the feeling like you need to throw up and not being able. I threw up ALL the time. As for the sleep, you are growing a person. Most work your body will ever do, and it’s doing it 24-7! Enjoy the sleep now sweetie, enjoy it. It will NEVER be that way again!
I am so excited for you!!!
Comment by Stephanie — May 19, 2006 @ 8:49 am
Woo Hoo, girl! I was wondering if you were pg, but didn’t want to come right out and ask! We can feel crappy together in cyberspace, right?
Comment by Shelah — May 19, 2006 @ 12:35 pm
–oh, and the headaches. I totally hear ya there. This is will be my fourth kid and the first time I’ve had headaches. They’re the pits.
Comment by Shelah — May 19, 2006 @ 12:37 pm
Congratulations! I figured out I was pregnant with my first while on vacation, too, with the in laws. There was no way to discreetly purchase a test kit, so I just broke the probable news to my husband on the plane on the way home. Not a good place to be delivered such shocking/exciting news! Sorry to hear you are naseated (sp!) and tired. Its good you aren’t throwing up, though! Small consolation, I know. I look forward to watching yours, and Shelah’s, progress!
Comment by Nettie — May 19, 2006 @ 2:18 pm
Yay! I am so happy for you! I got all teary reading your post. That is SO exciting. Me pregnant:
nauseau: check
vomiting: check
extreme tiredness: check
at least the first 4 months. BUT, it is all so worth it.
Can’t wait to hear more about your experiences with pregnancy and motherhood!
Great pics.
Comment by Gabriela — May 19, 2006 @ 2:19 pm
Congratulations!!! I am so happy for you.
Feeling so sick you would gladly welcome the chance to heave out the contents of your stomach just for a few minutes of relief: Perfectly normal.
Being able to sleep more than you thought humanly possible: Perfectly normal (and makes subsiquent pregnancies lots of fun, let me tell you).
Headaches that are as persistent as you “morning” sickness: Perfectly normal.
And being nervous all day and night about something that’s roughly the size of half a peanut (and growing): Also pefectly normal. And get used to this one. It. Never. Goes. Away. But in a good way.
And welcome to the club. We’re always happy to have a new member
Comment by Jessica — May 19, 2006 @ 2:39 pm
Congrats! I’ve been wondering. I am so excited for you!
Comment by Rachelle — May 19, 2006 @ 4:32 pm
Yay! (And that is NOT pressure, just happiness for YOUR happiness!) I am trying out the sound of Grandma though and I can’t help thinking I learned to be a grandma from the best! I will be so GREAT at it!!!! : )
Comment by bright one — May 20, 2006 @ 1:16 am
I am so happy for you and your family! This is the beginning of a great adventure for you all. Everything you are feeling is perfectly normal. With my first pregnancies I always felt like I wanted to throw up, but never could. With the last one I threw up for nine months. Trust me. The first way is better. Sleep all you can and be kind to yourself. Congratulations!
Comment by grammyelin — May 21, 2006 @ 1:58 am