Hello everyone.  It seems like it has been forever since I blogged!  Weird, huh?  So, I’m just getting into week 8 of my first pregnancy.  Last you read I was dying of nausea.  Fortunately, in the last couple of days that has eased off a fair bit and is much more manageable.  YAY!  On the downside, I’m enjoying plenty of “growing pains” in my lower abdomen.  Somebody’s making some room!  According to the week-by-week calender, between weeks 7 and the end of 8, your uterus grows from the size of your fist to the size of a grapefruit.  That’s a big jump.  I like being not-nauseous enough to express being happy, but poor Matt is discovering that the stretching and pulling of my busy organ has a propensity to make me a little irritable and impatient.  I think that’s what’s causing it (the irritability).  I hope so, anyway – then at least I have something to blame.  Officially, my ultrasound (7/18)  showed that my due date is March 4, 2008. YAY!My next ultrasound is scheduled for August 15th, I’ll be 11 weeks and 1 day.  I know they likely won’t be able to tell then, but Matt and I can’t wait to find out if it’s a boy or a girl – Matt’s already putting a fair bit of thought into names (even though it’s early) since I think he feels like that’s one thing he ”can” do while I’m busy being uncomfortable.  It’s pretty exciting.   This week, I got an adorable card in the mail from my dear friend Kate, who sent us a giftcard for baby-type stuff.  I didn’t know what to do with it yet, until tonight.  I was walking through Target and thought, “you know what would be great? a pregnancy journal!”  So, tonight I picked up a journal/organizer made up by the people who did “What to Expect When You’re Expecting”.   I’m sure most of the stuff I write in it will appear downright comical and silly later, so I figured, why not?!  Oh!  and today I had my first bizarre craving: Twix and cranberry juice.  Oh man, it was tart and wonderful.  I know it should be disgusting, but it was awesome.   Work too, is getting special.  And by special I mean, slightly uncomfortable.  I’m SO grateful that my coworkers are understanding.  I’ve been battling the “scrub pants don’t fit anymore” opponent.  Last night, I sacrificed one of my scrub pants to the maternity gods and did some chop chop and sew sew to add an elastic panel/waistband to my scrubs.  MUCH more comfy and I was much happier at work today for it.  Now not only do they fit around my waist and tummy, but I can leave the waistband up in the back and pull the waistband down under my tummy when I feel like I want some extra support.  <<Happy Amber face>> So that’s pretty much this week… Thanks for all your support guys!