Mike is home!! yay. Two and half weeks is soooo long without him. He never got a call for any fires, but at least he got the idea of working 24 hour shifts and being on a truck and being ready for calls. He did have a lot of calls, but most of them were for small things. Nothing that excited Mike very much. The sad part is he leaves in 3 weeks for two weeks in the field (a huge battalion camping trip where they throw tear gas at you and stuff like that, and then leaves two weeks after that for another two weeks working in Ramstein. But then after that he is home until August. So that will be good, AND he will be home for my birthday next week, which is good enough for me :). I must admit life is boring without him, he makes me laugh and I miss him tons when he is gone. But, this is part of being in the Army and you just gotta go with it! But, because he will be gone so much while I'm pregnant we have been strongly considering selling Molly. A lot of people tried to talk us out of buying her telling us we were crazy. We did a lot of research on puppies and pregnancy, and puppies with babies, and decided we would get her anyways because we picked her out. But this is the first dog i've ever had, and she's quite a handful, which is fine when Mike is home, but when he's not it's really hard. And because they say having a puppy is like having a baby I feel like there is no way I will be able to handle both if Mike leaves. And while we know for sure Mike won't be deploying this year, he still could next year, and him leaving for two weeks at a time is enough to make me feel like having a puppy AND a baby might be a little too much for me. Mike understands of course, and we would probably still get a dog, just not until the baby is way older. I just feel like I'm way in over my head with her. I know more about raising babies than puppies lol. And I cannot deny that right now my priority is making sure my baby is healthy, and that my relationship with my husband is strong, so I feel like Molly would be happier in another family right now. It's hard though. She IS a cutie, and we have gotten through the waking up a million times in the middle of the night thing. Ever since Mike got home though she has regressed a TON. She has accidents in the house probably like 5 times a day, which is crazy, because she had gotten past that. So i will definitely update on what we decide and if we find a good enough family for her. If not we will be keeping her.
Anyways, as far as baby news goes we had another doctor appt this morning and he says the baby is healthy and has a strong heart, but that it's younger than we thought base on its length. We don't know for sure how old it is yet, he's guessing it's 8 weeks, I'm thinking it must be 9. He said at my next appt in 3 weeks we will solidify the due date because he will know for sure how old it is. He was guessing by the length. So i'm somewhere between 8-10 weeks. Which to me is a huge difference haha because that means it may not be another month until i'm out of the first trimester. Either way the baby will be coming somewhere between Nov 3rd-24th. The last two weeks have been harder physically. I'm exhausted, mainly due to pregnancy but partly due to Molly. And have been feeling nauseous, which if anyone knows me well, knows I HATE feeling nauseous. Because of this I've lost some weight, but I hear that it's common in the first trimester, and the dr didn't seem worried by it. I just recently discovered that my nausea is largely related to hunger, but nothing sounds good to me at all, so I force myself to eat. and i'm loving sprite haha. Mike has been super supportive and helps any way he can, and him being home is amazing! But i definitely cannot wait until my first trimester is over because I hear the exhaustion gets better. I honestly don't know how women work full time jobs and have lots of kids when theyre pregnant lol more power to you ladies.
In other news I've finished my application for an online Masters in leadership, public policy, and social change. I feel like it will be the best thing for me to do right now in my life, and i'm determined to have this complete and hopefully most of my phd by the time Mike is out of the army so that I will be able to do what I want occupationally when he gets out. Plus I need something for me, that makes me happy, and learning has always been one of those things :) So i'm excited! hope all is well!
