It's been awhile since we've updated our blog. Now that we have bigger news to share these days, it seems the appropriate time to do so.
As many or all of you know, I (Melanie, not Tony) am pregnant. I guess Tony is pregnant in a way too, since he has to tolerate and support my various aches, needs, food cravings, food aversions, mood swings, body image issues, anxieties, etc. The baby is due on December 9th, I'll be 19 weeks on Thursday. So far my pregnancy has been relatively easy. I was exhausted the first trimester and couldn't really eat many vegetables, they just sounded terrible to me, but never vomited. Now that I'm in the second trimester much of my energy has returned and almost all of my food aversions have gone away, hooray! Pregnancy brain has begun and my short term memory isn't at 100%. Also with the second trimester, the baby bump has appeared, which you can see in the above photo.
We haven't had an ultrasound done yet, but will be getting one in a couple of weeks. So many people have asked if we're going to find out the sex of the baby, we are NOT going to find out. It will be a surprise. With that we're also keeping any name ideas to ourselves. I feel very lucky to have timed our pregnancy with my second trimester during the summer. We're looking forward to our non-traditional baby "shower" hootenanny on October 17th and hopeful that many of our friends and family will be able to attend.
Tony and I moved into an apartment in Santa Rosa two weeks ago. It's nice to be in our own space again after staying with friends and family for the past year and a half (thank you Sabin, Xochitl, Gerry and Laurel). Our new address is: 1165 Evans Drive, Santa Rosa, CA 95405. We'll be at this address until October 1st at the latest. We're still waiting to hear about the short sale that we've been in contract on since February 25th. The first time home buyers tax credit has been extended until September 30th, for those that were in contract prior to the deadline of April 30th. Which we were, so if the short sale goes through (and we're hopeful it will), we'll still get the tax credit. In the meantime, we've started looking at other houses in the Santa Rosa area, since there's less competition out there on the housing market now that the April 30th deadline has passed. Our new deadline for entering into official 30-day escrow on this short sale (or another house that we fall in love with) is September 1st. If we're not in official 30-day escrow by then, we'll be finding a house in Santa Rosa to rent long term. I have nesting to do!
Tony is still working for Beckmann's, driving down to Santa Cruz on Tuesday mornings and coming home on Thursday, working from home a couple days a week and driving out to bay area farmers markets on the weekends to train his employees. I'm still working as an office manager for the landscape architect in Sebastopol four days a week. Which is likely going to either end or get drastically reduced soon, since his business isn't doing so hot. I started working from home about a month ago for yourdictionary.com fifteen to twenty hours a week, so far I dig it and am hopeful it will go to full time or close to, so that when the baby comes I'll have a work-from-home job.
Other than being pregnant, moving, looking at houses and working, we've been keeping ourselves busy with our usual summer outings and planning the first fundraiser for the Out There Project (with the other six members), called Plunge.
Hope life is treating you all well and we'd love to see you soon!
We'll be updating our blog more regularly and they'll likely be shorter posts.
love,
~melanie.
(and tony)
