throwing up and other random thoughts...

Well y'all, I think I'm a little hard headed, but I'm also learning that I better pay attention to some signals my body is giving me or just shut up and be miserable. Three times now I've eaten a "snack" (a bowl of cereal,etc.) after dinner, but before bed and all three times I've woken up around 11 or 12 o'clock and puked my guts out. The last time was Sunday night, I got home from church, and knew in my mind I really shouldn't eat anything, but I thought, "if I just eat this little snack bag of Cheetos I'll probably be o.k., there's not much in it." I woke up at midnight with the worst stomach ache ever and knew that the food was coming back up. (I don't know why the stomach aches come, but it's happened each time) This time was different though because my stomach ache usually goes away after I throw up, Sunday night it stayed all night. I don't know if I'm having trouble with a certain type of food, but I'm just gonna avoid eating after about 7:00. Now that I've grossed you all out let me tell you about something totally cool that happened on Sunday morning. I was sitting, reading a book, and looked down at my stomach, and saw little Jakob rolling around or something. Later on in the day he was kicking and I guess he's big enough now that you can actually see his movements, my stomach was twitching and moving. It looks really funny, and kinda freaky. Like there's a little alien in there trying to break out. This is the first time Jeremy has really seen evidence of the little life inside me. He's felt him kick faintly a couple times, but now we just sit and watch him kick and move around...it's amazing. That's about it on the baby front. I'm 24 weeks tomorrow.(!!!) People are starting to ask me when I'm due, so I guess I officially look pregnant now. Dana (onestepatatime) had her embryo transfer yesterday, so I'm praying that she'll find out she's pregnant in about a week and a half. It sounds like her embryo's looked great, we just need em to stick! Jillian (committingmywaysuntotheLord) graduated with her A.A. last night from NWF State College, and I'm so proud of her. She's done this as a single mom while working and always being there for Jarred. She's already starting on her B.S. too. Oh yeah, and Kara (who'll always be my "baby" sister) is graduating from high school and with her A.A. shortly. I cannot believe that! She'll be 18 in September. I'm so proud of her, it's really nerve wracking (for the parents) with a homeschool kid because you wonder if you're doing things right, and if your child is learning all they should be. She's gotten A's and B's in all her college courses and y'all have seen her artwork. She's doing great! She should have her bachelors in Elementary education in about 2 years. Well, this has turned into a really long post. I'm very excited about my first Mother's Day. (as a Mother!!!) I'll write more about that later. Hope you all have a great day! Love, -Me