Now....it's ALL about prepping for our anniversary trip!!!! I know I keep mentioning it, but…..I’M EXCITED!!!!!!!! We’re leaving early on Saturday, December 20 and aren’t due back until the 30th or 31st depending on how much fun we’re having. We’ll be traveling approximately 2325 miles in Brandon’s trusty Blazer over those 10-11 days and will be hitting New Orleans, LA, Destin, FL, Daytona Beach, FL and Jacksonville, FL. As most of you now I’m a total beach bum and can’t wait to get some sand in my toes, but I think I’m most excited about taking Brandon into New Orleans. I found out recently that my food and music lovin’ husband has never been…..gasp!! It was definitely a shocker since he’s so well traveled, but his only Big Easy time was driving through…..but all of that will be changing in a few weeks. I’m already doing some of my famous pre-trip, options planning so that he’ll have plenty to pick from when we get there.
I’ve been made fun of because I sometimes take the pre-trip planning a little too far (three-ring binder with tabs), but it does really come in handy when you’ve only got a short amount of time and you don’t want to spend it deciding on where to go or what to do……you want to be doing, right!! Anyway, we’ll be moving pretty quickly through New Orleans because the bulk of our trip will be spent in a beachfront condo in Daytona Beach. We went there the summer before last and totally fell in love with the area. It’s the spot where we will spend our Anniversary and Christmas days. The condo has a full kitchen, so I’m sure we’ll be whipping up some home cooking for the holiday. We’ve found that we enjoy the food we cook more than anything we can get going out…..except for when we’re in New Orleans, of course!!
So, to get to the topic that everyone is really here to read about……the kiddo. All is still good with me….just feeling tired most of the time. We had our CVS last Monday and that went well, although I wasn’t allowed to get back on the treadmill for 48 hours….hmmmph! and then Thanksgiving ruined my return to the machine…..double hmmmph! Brandon was such a trooper…the test is very uncomfortable and I ended up squeezing the crap out of his hand, but we both survived. I have to admit I felt a little wimpy afterwards thinking that if I thought this was bad…..how the heck was I going to get through delivery? But, decided we’ll just cross that bridge when we get there and maybe just plan to bring Bran a pair of work gloves or something to protect his hand from my nails.
Anyway, back to the test…..the doc was able to get a good sample and we should have results back last this week or early next week. We’ve got our fingers crossed that we’ll receive good news. We also found out that the test results also include the code that tells us what the sex of the baby is. We were already planning on finding out through the normal ultrasound when the time came, but now we don’t have to wait for that money shot…..we’ll know ahead of time!! We did go back and forth a little on whether or not to keep it a surprise, but figured that medicine hasn’t come this far along for us to stay in the dark about what we’re having, right?
During the counseling session, we found out that my blood test results from Dr. Winn’s office had been shared with the prenatal clinic and apparently all is well there, too. We’ll get into further details on those as well as the CVS results when we meet up with Dr Winn again on 12/12, but it looks like I’m a fairly healthy gal and should be able to pull this thing off. YEAH!!
That’s all I’ve got for now, folks.
Talk to you guys in a week or so. Enjoy your Monday….uuuugh! ; )
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