So, here goes my first adventure with technology and the world of blogging....who knew this existed. My friends inform me daily that i need to come out of the "bubble world" i live in and dive into the 21st century. What's wrong with living in a "bubble world"? My dad, who died last April, always lived in a bubble world and i think he was very content in his own little world of wonder. Plus, when you live in your own little world, there is nothing ever wrong in the world, not to mention you get whatever you want....when you want it. Who wouldn't want that?
So here goes nothing....can't say you don't like something if you never try it, right? Life As I Now Know It is the so-called "name" of my blog because the life that i use to know, no longer exists. About 5 short months ago my life drastically changed.....little Brayden James Fleming literally popped into the world, and my world has been rocked and rolled ever since. Now, don't get thinking to yourself that i am not grateful for this little chicken nugget of mine. My hubbie and i wanted a baby desperately and were and are very blessed when we got preggers on our second try. But, man oh man, nothing prepares you for what is coming in only 40 short weeks. You think to yourself, 40 weeks....wow, that's a long time. Well guess what folks, 40 weeks freakin' flies by, and i mean it FLIES. So you go to the doctor only what fills like a million times before you little wonder of the world decides to make their grand appearance. You get the dreaded first ultrasound, which let me tell you is nothing like what is seen on TV. They literally insert this long rod looking thing with jelly stuff on it into you and wa-la you see your small peanut (literally it is shaped like a peanut. Who knew?) floating around in this large sac looking thing. Now, if this is your first baby, like it was mine, you have absolutely no idea what you are looking at and you have to ask the person doing the ultrasound a thousand questions, which makes you feel like an idiot and the most unprepared mother-to-be in the world. But, thankfully you get over that and show up to each visit counting down the weeks when your little one will arrive. Then comes that essential milestone of the 20 week mark in your pregnancy where you get to find out the sex of the baby. Don't think i slept much the night before, because i was so excited. Now for me, i would of bet the house on the fact that i was having a girl. I mean i wouldn't even look at little boy clothes when we would shop around because i KNEW (yeah, right!!) i was having a girl. I even went as far as telling my husband that he needed to put on his "happy face" when they told him it was a girl. I knew he wanted a boy more than anything, so i was trying to prepare him for the fact that he was going to have a girl. Ya know, sometimes we really should just trust God and let Him tell us what the game plan is for our lives instead of us trying to figure it out for ourselves. Cause behold, at 20 weeks i was pregnant with very much a BOY! I honestly thought i might fall off the table when she told me that. Prior to going to the dr that day, my friend had told me what to look for.....she said, if it's a boy the part will look like a turtle popping its head out and if its a girl, the part will look like a big-mac. Well, the turtle was wide awake and revealing its head to all the world. I also had drank a 20 fl oz coca-cola on the way to the dr to guarantee that our little wonder would be wide awake for the ever awaiting ultrasound.....we were only getting one shot at this gender looking thing, so you best believe i was going to take full advantage and not let him sleep through it! The inventor of caffeine in a beverage really should win the Nobel Peace Prize cause i mean it's AMAZING.
So, its boy and everyone is thrilled. I think i was more thrilled to find out that our son had fingers, toes, a heart that was all connected, kidneys, a brain, etc than the actual sex. It seems like you hold your breath in anticipation for 20 long weeks eating what you are suppose to, taking those awful vitamins, and throwing your guts up all for that one sentence from the doctor......"he looks great!" Then it's like you can finally let out that breath and enjoy becoming fat, bloated, swollen, and breathless cause he just kneed you in the rib cage.
Well, hubbie needs the computer so i will continue at a later date. Enjoyed my first blogging experience and hopefully there will be more to come. Not quite sure how to make this thing pretty yet or uploading pictures. Boy do i have a lot to learn. Thank heavens i have friends who know how to operate this stuff and are currently living in the 21st century.
Adios!
