9 Weeks...

I know I've been MIA for several days. This first week back at school was a doozy. My job is exhausting enough as it is, but it is kicking my booty now that I'm prego. I am what the British say, "knackered."

No belly picture yet, as you can't see anything yet. I'm thinking I'll start to show a little bit during the next couple of weeks. My pants are getting tighter and tighter and I can no longer button my beautiful Ann Taylor suit pants for work. I am making great use of those big safety pins! Although, the pants are so tailored that they don't lay nicely when I'm a good two inches from being able to fully close them. I caught one of my students looking at my stomach area the other day and I looked down and noticed my long enough shirt was hitched up a little too far and you could see my safety pin concoction. I quickly turned and faced the whiteboard and fixed myself.

Thankfully, my students are eight and they don't think too much into things.

I've decided I'm not going to tell them I'm having a baby until I get much fatter. I mostly don't want their parents to know. They are pretty intrusive, as it is, and I'd like to keep them from touching my tummy for as long as possible.

I am feeling...okay. I am extremely grateful that I'm not sick all the time. But I constantly feel...blah. You know that feeling you get when you've been eating too much and you're really lethargic? That's me - all the time. I am really thirsty all the time. I get waves of weirdness and I just want to lay down. I'm just feeling fat at this point. I know I'm not getting fat, but it's how I feel and really, it's how I look right now. It will be nice to get to the point where you can tell that there's a baby in there and not just another layer of insulation.

Anyway, that's the update from me. I hear and I've seen some pictures of the great April blizzard of '09 back in Colorado! Looks like fun! It should help the dry situation there and hopefully no water restrictions when we get to our house there and can water our lawn!