Big News at Our House

I've been waiting for my husband to make his calls before blogging about this, but I might just be waiting 'til the cows come home, sleep, and gradually age toward become a nice filet mignon or prime rib before that happens.  Anyone who knows Kevin, i.e. his family, can appreciate that sentiment. 


While I would love to blog about being able to sell our house, that just is not going to be the case any time soon, unless we opt to simply give away our house.  Besides, the news is much better.  We are finally expecting our second child.  Yay!!  We didn't know if this day would ever come after having to wait so long for Lauren.  But this and other experiences have only taught me to a greater degree that God is in control and my timing, mysteriously, never seems to be in line with what He has in mind.

The due date for Monkess #2 is April 14, 2010.  Which means taxes better get filed EARLY next year.  (Hint. Hint.)  I'm excited.  I've always wanted a spring baby.  And per my sister's request, it will not be in February or May.  (So now there's no excuse, Sue, for not remembering the child's birthday in a lavish manner.)  It will be nice to have a birthday in our family that is not within the last six weeks of the calendar year.  And it will be nice to be done with flu season and be able to go for walks right away.  (Although this IS Chicago, so the weather still may not let us go for walks 'til June!)  And even summer will be great because we can all chill at Mom's pool with the baby still immobile in the stroller--if there actually is a summer next year.

If anyone is wondering if I have been sick, the answer, unfortunately, is a resounding YES!  Before I got pregnant, I told myself that the next time around I would keep exercising and I was convinced that I would be less sick and basically, unstoppable.  But for whatever reason--whether it's because I'm 3 years older (a mere 29), or because this could be a different gender (which we probably won't find out--again), or because this child will be even more high-maintenance than Lauren {SHUDDER!}--I don't know, but I have been much sicker this time around.  Food is my arch-enemy, but an enemy that apparently I can't live without.  And forget about cleaning or going to run errands.  I have been lucky to have angelic people and PBS to watch Lauren while I lay in bed barely surviving.  I just don't know how women who get sick keep having kids!  And poor, wonderful Kevin has had to be both parents, and I know he's getting burned out.  So as we look forward to beginning the second trimester, I'm not sure who wants me to get better more!

I'd include a picture, but the only picture we have is of a speck.  But according to my youngest brother, just looking at the wallpaper on this blog is an ultrasound of what Monkess #2 will look like.