Day 54

Only 226 more days to go! Piece of cake, right?

Remember when I said that I was so thankful that I was not one of those people that had to eat before getting out of bed due to nausea? Yeah, that didn't last long. This morning I didn't even want to get up to pee in fear that I would get sick. I finally got up to pee around 6:30 and then crawled back into bed and forced myself to eat four saltine crackers before attempting to get up again. Forcing yourself to eat when you're that nauseated is very difficult. At least for me it is. As soon as the cracker hit my tongue it is a fight to make myself chew and swallow it. I finally talked myself into sitting up fully and then getting into the shower to get ready. It was just a bad morning and it hasn't gotten any better. I couldn't eat much before work so I settled on 3 cheese sticks and I brought a small bowl of fat free cottage cheese to hopefully eat within the next 20 minutes or so just to get some more protein in my body.

Also, I want to take a quick moment to say: THANK GOD FOR GINGER ALE. It has been so helpful to calm my stomach. I try to only drink one a day because there is so much sugar and so many calories in regular soda.... but it helps so much.
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Home Making:
I'm ready to nest. I know a lot of to-be moms don't hit this stage for a little while but I'm ready. Andrew and I have been looking at houses and I'm antsy to find a place and start making it a home. We found a house we really liked but the taxes on it are outrageous so we may have to let go of that one. We are going to see a couple more very soon and I hope that one really jumps out at me. We are putting in our 60 day notice to leave the apartment at the end of the month so we definitely have to find something before July 1! Also, I want a garden!! I have ALWAYS wanted a garden but have never had a yard to have one.

Even though I don't know the sex of the child, I know what color scheme I want to go with and then I can add accent colors once I know the gender. Plus, pretty soon we are probably going to start accumulating baby things and we have nowhere to put them! Our apartment is only 800 square feet... IF that. We don't have room to add furniture or baby things!
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Food & Stuff:
I love Cassie's blog. If you have never been to it before, please go and check it out. She is a wonderful woman who is insanely talented and I get so many wonderful ideas and recipes from her blog! I was browsing her blog a lot yesterday getting ideas and I ended up buying her Cookbook for my iPad (kindle edition) and it is AMAZING. I posted on her Facebook Page that I couldn't wait until I was done with my first trimester of pregnancy and could eat normal food again so I could make some of the wondrous things she has in there! Seriously, check her out.

That being said, I just have to say once more that I miss food. I miss having well balanced and portioned meals that are healthy and clean. I miss eating a mostly plant based diet. Right now I'm eating a 90% dairy diet. Haha.

I promise I'm doing my best to stay optimistic. I know a lot of women would do anything to be pregnant and would love to go through this process. I am thankful that my body is able to do such an amazing thing.... I just want to feel better.
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Sorry I'm such a picture slacker lately.
My motivation has left me at the moment and if I get at least one chore done at night I feel accomplished. No room for any fun or frivolous things. Ha!