it's official

i've just experienced two of the worst and longest weeks of my life.  24 hours a day, 7 days a week, i've been ravaged by extreme and unrelenting nausea.  i've spent hours with my face over the toilet.  my stomach has ached with hunger and yet nothing at all sounds good.  i've forced myself to eat saltines, dry white toast, applesauce, bananas, mashed potatoes, white rice.  the blander the better.  i am on carb overload. 

but i finally felt a little relief on tuesday.  wednesday was better.  and so far, today i actually feel normal.   all this torture is not in vain.  i am, once again, with child.  i am about eight weeks along so far.  i had intended to keep this a secret until the end of the first trimester, just to be safe.  but i've never been good with secrets.  and based on how sick i've been, i'm thinking things are going pretty good.  i also saw my ob/gyn for my first appointment this week.  the ultrasound confirmed everything is progressing well.  and a strong heartbeat of 166 bpm registered. 

so with that, the cat's out of the bag.  and now, maybe i'll have more to talk about on here!