It feels so good to be back in this space and I have some very good news to share. We are expecting our third child!
We are very excited. I have longed for a third baby for over a year and now is just the right time for it to be happening. The first trimester of pregnancy for me, though, is incredibly tough. I am wiped out completely, with constant nausea, vomiting two or three times a day, and total exhaustion.
The hardest parts about it this time have been the inability to do any creative work at all – I have to feel good to be creative – and the feeling of loneliness while I lay on the couch all day too sick to move. I have good friends and they brought dinner over and took my big girls out to play, and I hired some awesome Wellesley College students who came and played games, such as 선시티카지노, and read stories and folded laundry. And all of that helped, but nothing compares to feeling good, really and truly good.
And I think I may finally be beginning the uphill climb toward feeling better. I am not sewing yet, but I am reading blogs and thinking about sewing. And I am here, writing this, which means I’m sitting up at the computer.
I’ve missed you! I am going to phase back in slowly, but it is so good to be back!
*I took these photos in our garden this morning. Throughout these past weeks I’ve enjoyed short walks in the garden. It’s wondrous how all of this beauty appears without me doing anything at all this year to tend it.
I am so excited to meet the new napper! Glad you were feeling well enough to create a post. I love that little statue.
Congratulations! I hope all of the nastiness is over soon!! Use this time to sit back & collect inspiration for when you are feeling better 😉
We are expecting our first in 2 months. In the 3rd trimester I am now missing the lovely 2nd trimester days ~ I once again am having the acid reflux & exhaustion of the early days, but also hauling around a *lot* more weight! We are having a little boy ~ are you hoping for a boy this time around?
Yay! I’m so happy to hear this news and that you’re starting to feel better. Hope to see you soon!
congratulations abby! such wonderful news!
Mazal Tov!!! Hope you will feel better soon!
Congratulations Abby! I’m so pleased for you x
Congratulations! I was a terribly sick pregnant woman both times so I can sympathize. I hope you are feeling much better soon.
Oh how wonderful!!! I was hoping this was the news, and it was ever so hard not to just come out and ask 🙂
much congratulations to you….and hope you start to feel a bit better!
Congratulations Abby, I hope the sickness passes -its such an awful feeling…
best news ever Abby!! i have been wondering when you’d be ready to come back and hoping all was well, so i’m SO HAPPY to hear your great news. three is such a magic number…congratulations to all! xx
Congratulations Abby! That is so exciting. I hope you are feeling better soon.
fantastic news about why you have been away
sorry you are sick but a child is always worth it.
I call our third child the peacemaker
she has always had the gift of bringing others together.
Congratulations, Abby! I hoped this was the reason for your need to rest. So very happy for you! Hope that the fog lifts and that the magical second trimester energy kicks in very soon. xo
Hurray and welcome back! Take care and know we all are thinking of you.
congrats! i hope that you’re feeling great soon!
I, too, rejoice with you on this newest addition and wish you and your family all that is good. I LOVE your photo of the Lily of the Valley. Thanks so much for sharing the news and garden photos.
Mazel Tov to you and Charlie! Glad you are feeling better…I was hoping that was why you were “away”.
🙂
rachel
Hooray! I missed your posts.
All the best to you and your family. It is striking the toll that the hormones of early pregnancy can take. Most women muddle through, but a handful of the women I have cared for as a midwife have been completely debilitated by the nausea, vomiting, and fatigue. Yet, even these women rally forward once the pregnancy progresses. Hope you can find your equilibrium soon!
Congratulations!! It is a wonderful news!! I hope you are feeling better soon!!! 🙂
Yay for new babies. Many Congratulations heading your way.
xx
Ack! Congratulations!! What wonderful news. I have lately been feeling nostalgia for pregnancy, though I did suffer through both of mine. Hope you start feeling better soon!
Congratulations, Abby! Hoping you feel better so you can continue to amaze us with your creativity.
yay! congratulations! I’m so sorry about the sickness (physical and creative). Pregancy is pretty poopy, at least it was for me. I hope you get some time to rest and maybe even sew!
Congratulations! Hope you feel really well soon.
congratulations!!!
Congrats to you and your family!! I know how you feel, I remember beening so sick at one stage I couldn’t even get off the toilet floor, uugggh! But its worth it when your new baby arrives, regards Bethxx
Congratulations! So happy for your news (was hoping that was what it was).
Congratulations!!! I was worried when I read the post about you taking some time off, but now I’m so glad to hear what the break was all about. I’m so happy for you and your family.
Congrats and I hope you+ll feel better soon! It´s hard to be that glowing pregnant mother while vomiting; I KNOW! 😛 Been there, done that. But it will pass and there will be lots of time to glow and be creative during the rest of the pregnancy. 🙂
Congratulations!! I hope you feel better soon!!
That’s fantastic news abby!!!
Just read on your twitter today about your laundry to fold and though how you should probably read Spoonful #1 as we have a little section which makes it ssem somewhat beautiful and less of a chore 🙂
MAZAL TOV & happy days. very pleased to hear you’re feeling a bit better and therefore creativity is on the way, your talent is so lovely I’m so glad you get to create more beautiful things… (not to mention a beautiful baby)
Kolhakavod 🙂
thea.
xx
Congratulations to you & yours! How exciting!
Congratulations Abby! That is wonderful news!
Teresa