Once again, we went a whole lot longer without blogging than I planned.

But then life doesn’t always go like you planned, and honestly, it’s pretty difficult to feel inspirational or chatty when you spend most of your day on the couch trying to wish away the rolling waves of nausea in your stomach. I’m not sick or anything, it’s just that….

WE’RE HAVING A BABY!!!

And we are so excited and sometimes it feels like a dream…the best and sweetest kind of dream.

We found out about three weeks ago, and it’s been the funnest little secret. Although it’s even more fun to share the secret with the people we love and the people that will love (and do love) our little baby. We ended up making a quick one-day trip to South Carolina to surprise my family with the news, and every single one of them reacted exactly as I thought they would. Dad with a huge grin, mom with tears, sissy with “oh my word, oh my word”, and brother with the slightest of smiles. It was the funnest!

We’re about two months into growing this little one, which means next spring we get to meet him/her. Sometimes it feels so.very.long, but then I realize how fast time goes and I know that it will be here soon. Plus, there’s something powerful and impacting about waiting for something, isn’t there? The eager anticipation for a special event or a treasured moment somehow creates an even greater feeling of life and happiness when it does arrive. And we’ve got a lot of eager anticipation around here!

Everyone wants to know how I’ve been feeling, and I just say that I have my good days and my bad days. Some days I feel good almost all day, and then some days I feel bad almost all day. But even in spite of the nausea and weird food issues (my kitchen grosses me out, which is so odd for me since it’s usually my favorite place) and overwhelming tiredness and waking up every two hours to use the bathroom and other eceteras, it is the most magical thing to know that all of those things are going on because of a little, tiny baby growing inside of me.

I’m sure I will talk more about babies and pregnancy in the coming months, but for now, we wanted to share our happy news with you.

WE’RE HAVING A BABY!!!