12 Weeks

The last full week of my first trimester! Amazing! The baby is now the size of a lime. Whoa! I haven't noticed any change in my "bump," not even when I look at it myself. It's still uncomfortable (all squished feeling) when I bend over or curl up in a ball to sleep or pull my legs up to my chest while sitting which is one of my computer sitting positions of course. ;-)

The past couple of weeks the nausea has been getting better. I was happy for that, although I've still had indigestion and an upset stomach. However, the past 3 or 4 days the nausea has come back! It's back to being almost constant with some times being worse than others. And eating doesn't help as much as it did (it only helps keep it away for a little while), so it's actually worse than it was several weeks ago! My newest symptom: burping. A lot. Eww! I don't know about you, but I don't like burping in public or even in front of Matt. Thankfully I'm at home alone most of the day so it's not that much of an issue. Earlier I burped so loud I scared Serenity. lol I'm not a big burper normally, so it's weird to hear myself burping so loud.

I haven't been sleeping well at all the past few weeks (basically since I found out I was pregnant). Last night was one of the worst nights too. I ended up laying in bed really late this morning, which was just a waste of time since I didn't sleep. Now I don't want to take a nap because I've already wasted half the day laying around. I haven't taken many naps since getting pregnant actually. I'm not a fan of naps, but I do take them if I'm incredibly tired or have a headache.

We received our tax returns and so now we're seriously looking at cars. Yay! The only debate we have going now is whether to buy a cheaper car that we know won't last as long and then use the other half of our savings to pay off one of our school loans (Matt's opinion) or to buy a nicer, more expensive car that we know will last longer (my opinion). And we won't even be going into debt for a nicer car, we can pay up front with cash. I understand Matt's preference and I'm seriously considering it, but it's hard for me to choose that option. I've always been taught that if you are going to do something, do it right. That it's wiser to invest money in something that will last longer and won't break in the meantime. Obviously, that option isn't always available to us, and we're already looking at "medium grade" cars (Mazd.as, Toy.otas...). So I feel like going down even lower (Matt's thinking about a Saturn) isn't the best thing to do. But I do understand that it would be nice to be that much closer to being debt free. If we can save all the money we put towards school loans, we'd save money in the long run. I'm just afraid that in the future we'll be saving money for things like a nicer house, school tuitions, etc, and that buying a nicer car then will be a problem. Whereas we have the money for a nicer car now when we aren't worrying about saving for other large expenses. *sigh* It's such a hard decision!!! What would you do?