When school started in August, I expected to be exhausted with all of the back to school meetings and preparation, but I had never felt *this* tired at the beginning of the school year. I had been so busy that I didn't think about the possibility of expecting peapod. You can imagine how surprised Trevor and I were when the 10 tests I took were positive. And let me tell you this: I am convinced that the toughest job in the world is being a pregnant teacher of 8th graders. Let's just say I fit in perfectly because we have the same amount of mood swings.
Although it wasn't really planned, we couldn't have planned it better. With a due date of April 16th, I'll be able to take the last 6 weeks off of school (give me ALL the snow days) and spend the entire summer with the little peapod of joy. And, like my mom has always said, there is never going to be a good time to start a family; you've just got to go with it.
So far I am feeling overwhelmed, scared, anxious, ecstatic and pretty much all of the emotions rolled into one big belly that I am starting to form, but I cannot express how supportive and excited everyone else has been. Whenever I start crying at the most random things in the world like awful Nicholas Sparks movies on the lifetime channel (except for the Notebook because Ryan Gosling), or the fact that I can see my belly button while lying on my back and omg will I fit into the maid of honor dress for my sister's wedding?!, my friends and family are there to make me laugh. Plus, all of my weird pregnancy questions can be answered with a simple phone call to the most fertile woman on earth (just kidding, love ya Stace).
I wanted to document all of the peapod happenings because the advice I have been receiving from everyone is this: "It flies by, so enjoy it!" I've also been receiving some other logical but frightening advice like "Just remember, once you have the baby, it gets a little bit better every day." ...I am trying not to think of that, and more about all of the cuddles and snuggles of baby when it gets here. QUIT SCARING ME, YOU GUYS. The beginning of the 5th month is already here, so it has passed by in a whirlwind already. I also wanted a place to post all of the pictures of peapod when he/she gets here so family members can visit when they need a peapod fix.
In the meantime, I am going to post photos of the gifts the peapod has received so far from family and friends. I will hopefully have some nursery pictures soon once we get started on that. I'll spare the the breast pads that peapod's grandma bought me as a "gift." ...you're welcome.
The first thing I bought for peapod because who can resist baby socks?
Trevor's little quilt that we can hang in peapod's room.
One of my good educator pals sent me a copy of his daughter's favorite read and a little peapod toy.
