Ingenue Mom

I am not a sports person. I watch the Olympics every other year. That's usually about the extent of anything sports-related for me. Although, every year, there is the possibility that I could jump on a very huge bandwagon that comes through my city every March. I'm always late to the party, and I suffer the ridicule of all my friends. But this year, I find myself strangely excited about the UK vs Louisville game tonight. See, I live near Lexington and I went to UK. Literally almost every person I know freaks out about every single UK game. You don't know sports fans if you haven't been to Lexington, KY in March. It's insane. So alas, I will be watching the NCAA tournament game tonight. And if they win, I'll watch the championship game. Now, many people, including myself, believe that I can be bad luck, since I rarely ever watch a game and usually when I do, they lose. But I secretly watched the UK vs. Indiana game last week and we still won, so I feel okay no...

Due date: October 17   Looks like Isis will become a big sister in October!! I've been waiting 4 weeks to share & I'm so excited to finally let everybody know! As this blog serves as a sort of virtual scrapbook or journal of my pregnancy/baby stuff, I feel like I want to remember some of the stuff from the last few weeks! First of all, after trying for 8 months to conceive Isis, it was a SHOCK, to say the least, when it happened right away! I don't think I really believed it until we went to the midwife's office for blood work the week after I got a positive test. I have to say one of my absolute favorite things about my midwife is the fact that she's just very proactive about staying on top of things. She said to come on in to check blood work and hormone levels and everything. She also said that since you can see a heartbeat at 7-8 weeks, that I didn't need to wait until 10 weeks or more for my first ultrasound. That means that yesterday af...