Tendencies to start fresh

I have this tendency - starting fresh. I use to do it with journals. When I got tired of writing in a certain one, I would just stop and start a new one. It was almost as if I was closing a book on my life and beginning a new one. I have decided to stick with Simply Fresh and continue on with my current book of life, with a new chapter.

I am pregnant! It feels good for it to no longer be a secret. One, I don't like secrets, mostly because I am paranoid that somehow my secret has gotten out and I am oblivious to the fact. So now that's out, whew.

I am due early July so I am just about at the 3 month part. I may be a few days shy. Unintentionally, it is perfect timing for me. This allows me 14 months of being at home with baby. I am really happy about this. Expecting a baby still feels new to me. I think it might feel new until the baby is here. I thought by 3 months I would for sure have settled into the idea, but no it still feels surreal.

Well I shouldn't say surreal. I know there is a little something growing in there. It's been making me sick for the past 2 months. I have a confession.... I always thought moms to be were exaggerating how sick they felt. I am a skeptic. Well that is not the case anymore. I cannot believe women have more than one child! I am optimistic though that I will be one of those people who follows the books on pregnancies and in the next week or so I should feel rejuvenated and have a lot of energy.

So now that everyone knows. I feel like it's ok to start planning, however I have no idea where to start. One little snag in the due date is that we're planning on moving this summer into my parents house. They are building a house/cottage at the lake, so we've decided to move 2 houses down into a larger more family appropriate house. But we're not exactly sure on the date of the move. We won't really know more until in the Spring because the move depends on when their place is ready to be moved into. So that changes things abit when it comes to planning, ie making a nursery. I don't plan on anything drastic but no sense in painting a nursery when we intend to sell shortly after we have the baby.

We don't have a ton of room in our house to be stock piling either. I think I will start with collecting hand me downs and then go from there. I have a friend who has a 1 year old and 3 year old so rather than buying all new, there is probably some nice stuff I can just reuse.

But I still have a month to wait to find out the sex.... once that's done then I guess I can really start planning.