It's Official

After going back and forth for a while now, Doug and I have finally decided on baby names. "Names?" you might ask. "Isn't it a girl?"  Well, that's what I was told, but I have to admit I haven't felt sure about it and I was pretty surprised when the ultrasound tech told me so confidently that she knew what it was since the baby hadn't been extremely active during the sonogram and the tech had had some difficulties viewing other parts of the body.  Whatever we get, we will be content, but just in case, we have chosen a girl's name and a boy's name. Sorry, I'm not sharing (well, okay, Tina you know, but I haven't told anybody else).  I'll just let the rest of you know that both names do start with an "A" since we couldn't stand to break the tradition.

Blessed Along the Way

Well, true to form my usual "morning" sickness has kicked in meaning I feel pretty terrible from the time I wake up until the time I fall asleep. I have to admit that this pregnancy seems to be better than most. The best way to describe it is that during my last three pregnancies I felt so nauseous I thought I was going to die. My first pregnancy was marked by throwing up just about anything and everything that went into my body for a few months. The next two pregnancies were much better - I could at least keep some food down. This pregnancy is by far the best. I have been able to keep most of my food down and I have these chunks of time where I feel nauseous, but it is quite bearable - this is completely foreign to me (Doug tells me that considering the subject "chunks" was a poor choice of words here -sorry). So it seems that my blogging is going to get quite sporadic.

Also true to form, my home fell into disaster. I guess having a pretty bad time with allergies and caring for sick children while pregnant didn't help. But I hate it when my home is this way and I start to get VERY overwhelmed. But I have been blessed immensely this past week by a number of people in our church. First of all, our pastor told Doug that we need to be provided a meal per week by the church family, so he put us on the list. Wow! Next, I had three offers this week by women to pick up items for me while they were at the grocery store. Yesterday, a woman from church and two of her daughters used their day off from homeschooling to come clean house for me. They did everything - bathrooms, bedrooms, kitchen, laundry, dusting, vacuuming, and even cleaned out my fridge which was a fright since that is the last thing that helps my stomach these days. On top of it, they brought us a bunch of frozen meals, baby food, disposable plates, cups, and cutlery along with a pack of peppermint gum and a magazine! As much as this blessed me, I think it blessed Doug even more since he didn't have to spend his evening doing my responsibilities on top of his. And lastly, a single male friend of ours came over tonight to go to a meeting at church with Doug and brought an incredible pork roast with potatoes.