Bring on the Emotions!

Last week was pretty tough for both Angela and Amod. Amod caught a 24hr bug that caused him to miss some work. Angela has been battling severe fatigue and a steady sick feeling. Sometimes food sounds good, other times it sounds disgusting. The need to sleep seems to overcome her anytime anywhere, especially at work where there is no privacy available whatsoever. Angela has already passed out (asleep) on her keyboard, on the floor beneath her desk, and once in the Ladies Restroom. She has now bumped her bedtime up about 3 hours earlier but it is too soon to tell if it is helping.

It is hard being sick in front of coworkers without offering an explanation. Angela was feeling a bit isolated by the end of last week with this big secret we are keeping. When she got home from work on Friday, a package had arrived from Jenn Bragg which contained a beautiful framed linocut image of Zeke that she had made. It was so thoughtful and spontaneous and couldn't have arrived on a better day. It gave Angela a good cry (probably hormones) and then she felt much better. You are a great friend, Jenn!

We are looking forward to Baby-T's 7-week sonogram debut later this week!

Oh Baby!

We are going to have a baby!!! It is still very early of course, (just shy of 5 weeks) but we are super excited. Angela is enjoying the symptoms so far since they remind her that there is really an embryo in there. We are sure that her enjoyment will fade slightly once the tougher symptoms hit. Fingers are tightly crossed that everything proceeds smoothly and we receive a healthy little package in November.

As for Amod, his initial reaction was shock, accompanied by "how can that be possible"? It was priceless!! Angela enjoyed pulling out a calendar and explaining to Amod, THE DOCTOR, how babies are made. We had planned to start trying soon, but we had written February off as a warmup month because we thought Angela's travel schedule would make success unlikely.

There is so much up in the air with this early pregnancy and Amod's job search that we are keeping our news private for a while. We don't think we are ready to handle the Q&A that will inevitably follow our pregnancy announcement. For now we will keep blogging in secret so that our interested friends and family won't miss out on anything.