Life is for those who LIVE!!!

It's crazy how you can feel perfectly fine one moment and then sick as a dog the next....  Morning sickness has struck here in the Rollins household...  I was up each morning for the last 3 mornings with a large lump in my throat and swallowing anything makes me feel like gaging....  I can usually manage a few bites of something and every so often i take a few more bites and try not to gag.  I always try to go back to sleep but if I can't sleep i usually lay on the couch like a bum...  This is where you can find me until about 1 or 2.  By then my body has stopped boycotting food and i can manage to eat a small lunch.  I feel pretty good until bedtime but i still have waves of sickness.  It's so weird how you can feel right as rain and two seconds later you swear that you are going to throw up.  We went to our first Dr. appointment and it was still surreal.  I was literally sitting there thinking omg what if they Dr comes in and tells m...

Richie and I have been trying to get pregnant since August/September.  It's been a really frustrating process to say the least.  At first things seems to be pretty regular and I figured it was only a matter of time.  But then somewhere in February my body decided to pack up shop.  I won't go into the details but it left me despairing that my body was failing me.  Month after month I was beyond frustrated.  So much so that my Dr. finally suggested a medicine called clomid that is a low dose fertility drug that regulates your ovulation.  So i took the first dose of it in May.   Meanwhile very, very few people knew of our plans because we didn't want the pressure of people watching us and waiting for it.    Then the Sunday of mother's day I woke up after having this dream:  Richie and I were sitting on the couch in my parents house.  My whole family knew that I was pregnant already but they didn't know I had ...