Hi everybody!!!! Happy belated Thanksgiving and Happy Hanukah! Hope your holidays are off to a wonderful start. Have you started decorating and shopping? We haven't as I write this but by the time you read this the plan is to have the house decorated and a few gifts checked off the list 
As promised I wanted to write blogs more freguently so I thought since it has been a little over a month since we announced the baby news, this would be a good time to catch up with you. Our most exciting thing to share with you is that we are starting to feel the baby!!! Well, me more then Steve only because I'm with the baby more, lol. Plus I can feel it internally and when I put my hand on my stomach. The first time it happened it was a wonderful feeling that made me laugh out loud and even brought tears to my eyes. Because this is the first baby, the worry wart in me went "oh no what was that!" but it didn't take too long to figure it out and that is when the laughter and tears started. In fact remember the night when I posted that Steve and I went to see the movie Captain Phillip's? Well during the first part of the movie I was getting so many flutters and gentle kicks from this liitle one that Steve and I put the bucket of popcorn down (a first for us) and just placed our hands on the baby to feel all the acton. It was wonderful!! Oh, and so was the movie by the way.
I know I said that we will know what we are having in December so if you are reading this the first day it is posted, I don't know yet but if you are reading later in Dec, we know!! December 3rd is the big day and though we ultimately are most thrilled that we are having a BABY it will be exciting to hear boy or girl. Only because I am a planner and you know I have two bedding sets picked, two color theme ideas, two different shower curtains for their bathroom, so it will just be nice to know. Plus, you know me and I want to buy a cute baby outfit, lol! You know how lots of couples now are learning the sex of the baby after they leave the doctors by taking a note with the sex written on it. We thought about doing that but Steve and I also want to sit with the tech and really analyze the sonogram since you don't get to have one done on a regular basis. Plus we will have a million questions so the news of what we are having is more like the second exciting part of that appointment it's the seeing of the baby I can't wait for! I for sure will share the news with you but I haven't decided how to tell you yet. I can tell you the same way I'm telling the fam which is having the babies name embroidered on a Christmas stocking so when they come over for the holidays they will discover if its a boy or a girl. I can take a pic of the mantle and put it on FB and tell you that way or I could tell you live on our first Inspired Style after the holiday. Which would you prefer?
We also started "nesting" as they say, which pretty much means the basement underwent a complete clean up. When we moved in last year we didn't do a very good job of organizing things in our storge closet in the basement (it basically became our dumping ground). The other week we took everything out of there and went through what to donate, what to dump, and put the rest back very nicely so now there is room for more and we can finally see what we have! The plan is do the same system for every closet in the house. We figure we will need a place to keep all the baby items that will be filling our house in a matter of months so the more space we can make, the better. We also decided which room to use as the nursery. We have one completely empty bedroom in the house and the other is a guest room. We originally thought about moving the guest room into the empty room and converting the guest room into the nursery because it has a really pretty window. Then when we went furniture shopping we realized we could get a set that fits perfectly in the empty room that allowed us to buy both a dresser and chest. So we ordered that collection in white and decided to use the empty room. The furniture doesn't get here until January so that will give us time to get the room painted once we hear boy or girl. I think we will do pink walls with a pink, grey, and white bedding set if it's a girl. If it's a boy we will do grey walls with this cute blue and red nautical bed set. Regardless of the sex, we went with white furniture because I just love that look for a nursery!
In other baby news, we did have two showers for my younger sis who is due in January. Sarah and Mike are expecting their little boy mid January and so far everything is going well. Mike comes from a very large family, so to prevent having 100's of people at one party, we threw two seperate showers-- it's always fun to celebrate twice! I also personally enjoyed getting ideas for our own registry and learning about so many great things they make for babies these days. Plus there is something about seeing your younger sister becoming a mom that is very touching. When my big sis Jess was preganant it felt different, she is older and those things are supposed to happen, but the baby sister is a whole different story! She will be a great mom and hoping I will be too. I am the craziest of the three of us, (not in a crazy party way but in a crazy I over think everything way) so I'm scared I'll question myself instead of following my instincts. Be prepared for me to use my Facebook page as a way of getting in touch when I have a parenting question. It will be so nice to hear from many of you who have been there before.
I suppose this leaves us with my random thoughts and comments. So let's see!
- Been loving breakfast food right now and could eat breakfast for dinner a few times a week.
- My pre-existing sweet tooth has recently magnified and it's safe to say the baby and Amy are both loving desserts!!
-I find my love for coffee has diminsihed. Maybe because I'm drinkiong decaf but still not even loving the flavor as much as I use to.
- For sure in maternity clothes and loving it. They are so comfy. I have a few of my "regular" clothes I can still wear but not many. Let's just say the waist band was the first to be snug but now I can't even fit into my blouses in the chest area. Time to go shopping!
- Had a fun weekend in October with Steve's sis Kathy and her husband Dennis. We went to an apple orchard and showed them some of our favorite fall spots. Plus Kathy is a pro with a dutch oven so she treated us to some yummy cast iron meals.
- Bought an Isaac crossbody bag that I live in and love.
- Watched my husband go crazy over the World Series, go Red Sox!!!!
- Had a fun weekend with my nieces at a children's amusement park.
- Been eyeing up cute baby stores to play in when we find out what we are having.
- Can't wait to decorate for Christmas.-- Oh, and we bought Elf the soundtrack, it's terrific!!
- Baby is drying my skin out so looking into new moisturizers from the Q. Any suggestions?
- Totally loving that Homeland is back on as I missed Sal, Carrie, and Brody.
- Looking forward to all our favorite holiday specials to start airing, always a spot for Rudolph!
- And, lastly I might be slightly addicted to the Hallmark and Lifetime channels and their slightly cheesy but oh so fun to watch holiday movies!
I'll write again next month and I'll be sure to include whether we are having a boy or a girl too just in case you aren't on FB. Since I won't write before the holidays let me also say have a wonderful, beautiful, warm, delightful, blessed, peaceful, exciting, fun, joyous holiday season!!!!