Sitting, waiting, watching

After a summer full of working I sure have been doing a lot of sitting in the past few weeks...and doing a lot of waiting. Waiting to regain some energy and a somewhat normal appetite, waiting to hear back on job applications, waiting for approval on health insurance so I can wait to get an appointment with a midwife...waiting is so much fun!

We did get a little escape from our normal day to day waiting by going to the coast on Wednesday. It was a great day weather-wise, but a not so great day nausea-wise and I initiated our arrival on the coast with a trip to the porcelain throne (luckily I made it to the public restroom though). The rest of the time I hung out on the beach laying around on a blanket while Deborah, Jake, and the kids played around in the ocean.

For all of you women out there who worked a normal job during your first trimester, I salute you! I seriously don't know how I could/would have done it while feeling the way I have... I guess there is good reason why pregnancy is usually left to 'younger' women ;)

Fertile ground

So... we've been in Oregon for a couple of weeks now and despite my desire to explore the area I've spent a majority of our time here either in bed or hanging out on my sister's couch.

I knew that getting back to the earth by working in the dirt would be good for my soul, but I'm not sure that we realized that working in fertile soil would make me more fertile :) Unfortunately the combination of pregnancy hormones, nausea, heat, an infestation of grasshoppers, and hard manual labor weren't working well for me so it was at that point that we decided it was time to leave the farm. As much as we were enjoying our experience there...I was done. I started getting antsy wondering where we were going to live, when I would be able to see a Dr., where we would get jobs, if we would have insurance, etc, etc...and when Jake started feeling that way as well we knew it was time to set some roots down somewhere. Although we love our friends and family in Utah we thought that if we were ever going to live somewhere else now was the time to do it- so after visiting our family for a few days after leaving the farm we packed the van and drove up to Oregon. We've both been job hunting, though my 'hunt' has been less than energetic since I have the motivation of a sloth and am nauseous 9/10th's of the day. And after having been insured for my entire life (until quitting our jobs in March) I am now in need of insurance more than ever...so, I've applied for Oregon's medicaid program (which, since we are both unemployed I should qualify for with no problem). Hopefully I will get approved within the next week so I can get an appointment to be seen to make sure everything is as it should be. And hopefully I'll start feeling more human again before too long, it'll sure be nice to be able to think of food without wanting to puke.

It's kinda funny that when we started out at the first of the year...when we rolled the dice to see where we'd end up...having a baby was one of the things we had as an option. Little did we know that we would end up doing both.


Hopefully the next picture I post will be of a perfect little embryo hanging out in my belly!

Quick Update

We've been in Portland a week now and are in job hunting mode. My sister Deborah is putting us up at her house in Beaverton while we're ...unemployed... We really like the area so far but do miss our friends and family in Utah. I'll post more when we have pictures and more info.