Coming Soon(ish)!

I wish I had a really clever way to announce this, but I'm not coming up with anything other than to flat-out say, we're having a baby!

It still feels surreal, but we are actually, really, truly going to have another child.  After a nearly six-year hiatus, it feels like I'm pregnant for the first time again.  Except this time I'm a lot older :)

We don't have a single baby item--not clothing, furniture, toys, or anything!  But all these years I've always said we had an empty chair at the table that needed filled, and now we're going to fill it!  It's going to take a lot of work:  the Happy Room, our schoolroom, will become the boys' room, and the boys' room will be the baby's room, and the location of the new schoolroom is yet to be determined, although I do have a brilliant plan in the making that I'm still working on.  Come summertime, we'll be shuffling all the rooms and figuring it all out, and begging/borrowing all the necessary baby stuff from friends and family who've recently had babies.  By the fourth baby, you see that all the extra stuff just takes up space, and that there's not a whole lot you need.  It's the dark secret Babies 'R Us doesn't want you to know :)

For now, I'm sick as a dog.  This is the sickest I've ever been, and that's saying something, because I've always been really sick.  This time around, even the medicine I take isn't wiping out the nausea, and there are definitely moments when I wonder what on earth we've done . . . But the thought that we are really going to have another child--possibly a sister for Addie?--makes all the room-shuffling, item-borrowing, and nausea-feeling inconsequential.

I still can't believe it!