Salt and Pickles

I’ve been a very bad blogger. I think I go into a holding pattern sometimes.  A friend mentioned that she hadn’t seen much of me, and I realized that I do this often in the 2ww but during the first tri I did it times ten. I was just hunkered down until I felt i could relax and believe I was pregnant.

Of course, once I reached 13 weeks the first thing I did was order knit black converse booties from Mahar Dry Goods! hah. 

So, our NT scan was friday and things looked great. I’m finally allowing myself to feel excited and happy and stop giving the caveat “but it’s really early” to anybody who asked how the IVF had worked out. (we were never very secretive about what we were going through. it’s just not our style. everybody knows our business, i guess) 

We were going to rent out our loft and move when we thought it was twins, but now that we know it’s one.. I think we’ll stick around for awhile. This has allowed us to relax a lot. We are definitely going to do some serious paring down though.

 I’m quitting my job in mid-june, which i’m very excited about. The baby isn’t due til mid to late October, and this will give me some months at home on my own before my life completely changes. I’ve never had that, and I think it will be wonderful.hell, i might even watch a soap opera… which I haven’t done since the late 80’s when I was a teenager in love with Steve (patch) and Kayla on Days of Our Lives. 

We’ve been a bit too busy on weekends. bbq’s and seders and birthdays and so many baby birthdays too. It’s good though. I’m going to try to write with more regularity now that I’m no longer hunkered down waiting for proof that things were sticking.

 I have been on Zofran for weeks and thus not really throwing up. but all i want to eat is watermelon , so i’ve actually lost some weight rather than gained. my midwife is not worried about this, since i have some weight to spare. today though, i made a midwestern style butter burger. basically it’s a burger with caramelized onions and a patty of butter that melts on top of the hot burger. it’s sinful but really good. since i haven’t really liked protein much at all lately, i just see it as a positive sign that I ate an entire burger!

i had all these plans to sew things before the baby came, but I haven’t sewed a thing since xmas.
maybe after i quit my job. yea, right.