Week 8: morning sickness set in, something I never had with Jonah. I always had to eat before I took my vitamin but it never lasted longer than 30 minutes after I ate.
This is nausea all morning and sometimes all day. I usually have to sit and take some deep breaths before I'm okay to get up and move around again. I haven't actually gotten sick, but sometimes I feel like I could.
My baby bump has gotten bigger, really thinking about getting out some smaller maternity pants. I've had to put away 3 pairs of my dress pants already. I've worn skirts the last 2 days, but it's getting chilly for that. :-)
Meyer Family
Winter 2014
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Weeks 1-7
Week 1-4: wishing and hoping this month would be the one. We started trying in June of 2011, really hoping for a spring baby. With the summer we had and the new jobs we now have it is probably best we are getting a "summer" baby.
I went in for my yearly exam since we weren't getting pregnant and it'd been close to a year since my last physical exam. I told her about my unique situation of supposed to get "it" soon, but it hadn't happened yet... she offered to do a urine and blood test after the urine test was super faint. Both came back positive, so we were in the go.
Josh was served a supper of baby carrots, baby potatoes, mini strawberries, and "baby ribs." Jonah seemed pretty excited even though he really has NO clue. He consistently says he wants a sister.
Weeks 5-6: Feel great, boobs are really sore, and getting used to the idea of having 2 kids and made my first appointment. Nov 10 we will find out the official due date.
Week 7: starting to show, not real tired, and boobs still VERY sore.
I went in for my yearly exam since we weren't getting pregnant and it'd been close to a year since my last physical exam. I told her about my unique situation of supposed to get "it" soon, but it hadn't happened yet... she offered to do a urine and blood test after the urine test was super faint. Both came back positive, so we were in the go.
Josh was served a supper of baby carrots, baby potatoes, mini strawberries, and "baby ribs." Jonah seemed pretty excited even though he really has NO clue. He consistently says he wants a sister.
Weeks 5-6: Feel great, boobs are really sore, and getting used to the idea of having 2 kids and made my first appointment. Nov 10 we will find out the official due date.
Week 7: starting to show, not real tired, and boobs still VERY sore.
Josh & Kim + TWO!
June 2012 this Meyer family will be a family of 4 instead of 3. :-)
We are excited for this new venture in our life. Hopefully I can keep track of everything that I kept track of with the first one. :-)
We are excited for this new venture in our life. Hopefully I can keep track of everything that I kept track of with the first one. :-)
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Summer of Change
A lot has changed since my last post.
In May 2011 I accepted a new job in the Vinton-Shellsburg CSD which led us on a "Summer of Change."
June brought the end of 2 jobs with schools we loved, the prep of our house in Garwin, and the selling of our house in Garwin (on the market for a total of 12 days), and Joshua getting a job at North Tama. There are A LOT of more details to the month of June. It was a very busy month. Joshua and I even stole a little time away to go to Kansas City for a Cubs game and fun for our 3 yr anniversary.
July brought the "7/11 Storm." There were 100+ straight winds that blew through over 600 miles across the midwest. Current town of Garwin and our new town of Vinton were effected. Our house in Garwin had quite a bit of damage. 3 lost trees, small hole in our roof, and patio fence demolished. Our town was without power for about a week. We got power back in 3 days.. technically faster than that because my dad brought us a generator on the day of the storm. (thanks dad!)
We had a lot of help the day of the storm to clean up the big mess. Both our sets of parents, friends Jon Myers, and Justin Jacobs. We got most of the trees picked up that day and then started helping others. Jonah was a SUPER helper himself. He picked up lots of sticks and carried lots of debri to the ever growing piles on the edge of our yard.
I began my job July 1 so even with all the craziness I went to work anyway. The town of Vinton lost over 75% of their trees, and with the amount of trees that Vinton (has/had) that is quite the difference. Many places in town are seeing sunlight today that haven't seen sunlight in 50 years. The town was shut down for several days. It is October now and there are still new roofs going on, trees still being removed, and construction fixes all over town.
July also brought a lot of stress with the sale of our house in Garwin and the purchase of a new home in Vinton. The storm changed a lot of things on the sale of our house. We had to re-shingle our Garwin house to satisfy the inspectors of the buyer. Luckily the insurance money from the storm covered most of the costs of all the repairs that needed to be made. We had 3 long days of work on the roof and repairs. MANY family and friends came to help fix things up. At one time there were over 15 people on the roof. The temps were in the 80s and 90s and much of the Sunday they worked was too hot to be up on the roof for too long. No breeze made it sequestering to be up there. As all the repairs were finished the buyer finally got her loan and we were scheduled to close on August 10. We still hadn't found a place to live in Vinton... we had less than 3 weeks now to get a place and move in.
Luckily during our search of Vinton we found a house we loved and even though we kept looking it was always available. The even bigger blessing was that when we did make the move to buy it in our time crunch the sellers agreed to an interim occupancy agreement. Which meant we could move in before we closed on the house. Really, living there before we owned it. We moved in on Aug 7, amidst many family plans and the end of a busy summer.
School started for both of us in new jobs, in a new house, and Jonah in a new daycare setting. We've been busy, but happy here. We've really fallen more in love with our new home everyday. Joshua is teaching MS Language Arts in Traer and I'm the Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Technology.
Well, that is the "summer of change" it was quite the summer and one I'm sure we'll never forget.
Hopefully I write more in the future... before another 6 months pasts.
In May 2011 I accepted a new job in the Vinton-Shellsburg CSD which led us on a "Summer of Change."
June brought the end of 2 jobs with schools we loved, the prep of our house in Garwin, and the selling of our house in Garwin (on the market for a total of 12 days), and Joshua getting a job at North Tama. There are A LOT of more details to the month of June. It was a very busy month. Joshua and I even stole a little time away to go to Kansas City for a Cubs game and fun for our 3 yr anniversary.
July brought the "7/11 Storm." There were 100+ straight winds that blew through over 600 miles across the midwest. Current town of Garwin and our new town of Vinton were effected. Our house in Garwin had quite a bit of damage. 3 lost trees, small hole in our roof, and patio fence demolished. Our town was without power for about a week. We got power back in 3 days.. technically faster than that because my dad brought us a generator on the day of the storm. (thanks dad!)
We had a lot of help the day of the storm to clean up the big mess. Both our sets of parents, friends Jon Myers, and Justin Jacobs. We got most of the trees picked up that day and then started helping others. Jonah was a SUPER helper himself. He picked up lots of sticks and carried lots of debri to the ever growing piles on the edge of our yard.
I began my job July 1 so even with all the craziness I went to work anyway. The town of Vinton lost over 75% of their trees, and with the amount of trees that Vinton (has/had) that is quite the difference. Many places in town are seeing sunlight today that haven't seen sunlight in 50 years. The town was shut down for several days. It is October now and there are still new roofs going on, trees still being removed, and construction fixes all over town.
July also brought a lot of stress with the sale of our house in Garwin and the purchase of a new home in Vinton. The storm changed a lot of things on the sale of our house. We had to re-shingle our Garwin house to satisfy the inspectors of the buyer. Luckily the insurance money from the storm covered most of the costs of all the repairs that needed to be made. We had 3 long days of work on the roof and repairs. MANY family and friends came to help fix things up. At one time there were over 15 people on the roof. The temps were in the 80s and 90s and much of the Sunday they worked was too hot to be up on the roof for too long. No breeze made it sequestering to be up there. As all the repairs were finished the buyer finally got her loan and we were scheduled to close on August 10. We still hadn't found a place to live in Vinton... we had less than 3 weeks now to get a place and move in.
Luckily during our search of Vinton we found a house we loved and even though we kept looking it was always available. The even bigger blessing was that when we did make the move to buy it in our time crunch the sellers agreed to an interim occupancy agreement. Which meant we could move in before we closed on the house. Really, living there before we owned it. We moved in on Aug 7, amidst many family plans and the end of a busy summer.
School started for both of us in new jobs, in a new house, and Jonah in a new daycare setting. We've been busy, but happy here. We've really fallen more in love with our new home everyday. Joshua is teaching MS Language Arts in Traer and I'm the Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Technology.
Well, that is the "summer of change" it was quite the summer and one I'm sure we'll never forget.
Hopefully I write more in the future... before another 6 months pasts.
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