Confessions of a Blogaholic

...and turning into a basketball, lol. In a few more weeks, I'll be busting out all over!

Nathan and my mom were the first to notice. Mom said my stomach was looking bigger, and Nathan (after commenting on how wide my belly button is all of a sudden) noted that from my belly button down, I am growing. I noticed it, too, when I laid on my back in bed last night--all of a sudden, a little, hard pooch is appearing.

Luckily, I have still only gained 6 pounds, so I am feeling pretty good about all of this. None of my pre-pregnancy clothes fit comfortably, and by comfortably I mean I can't write on my chalkboard in my classroom without feeling exposed in my pre-pregnancy gear.

I feel good, though. In fact, I feel wonderful. My uterus measures about 3 weeks ahead of where it should be right now, but my midwife said some people just grow big during pregnancy--she would question my due date and how far along I am IF I wasn't able to pinpoint my date of conception due to the IUI.

We are looking into buying a house again, which is exciting. We can pay two months rent to get out of our lease, and we're thinking if we buy a house in March/April, we can use a little of that $8,000 to pay off the lease. Another teacher at my school wants us to buy her house, but she paid A TON for it, and rightfully so since it is an insanely beautiful 4 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom home! She said she is willing to take a "significant loss" on it just to get out of it to move to her daughter's school district (to avoid the 45 minute commute each morning), but I just can't imagine she wants to take as big of a loss as we are prepared to pay. Who knows, though...we can't know until we make the offer :)

We are going the week of December 3 to look at the house, and we are already saving like mad to afford the down payment and closing costs (we have been saving since our snafu in May trying to buy a house). From the pictures she has shown me, it is truly a beautiful home, and a place I'd love to buy if all the financing works out. Here's a picture of it from last Christmas...

Beautiful, eh? The teacher is really adamant that she is willing to work with us to allow us to buy it--mainly so it doesn't have to sit on the market and because she wouldn't need to use a realtor. She even brought us in blueprints of the house so we could get a better idea of what's inside. Such excitement. We'll see what the next month holds.