Are you excited?

I hear this stupid question every.single.time I announce my pregnancy. Seriously, what do people expect me to answer with? Yesterday Matt's adopted grandma asked me that question after we told her we are having a baby and I had to pause and force myself not to say (in a very sarcastic tone), "No. I'm not excited at all." Even if I wasn't excited, do people honestly think I would say so??? There's only one answer to that question, which makes it completely pointless to ask.

Why do people ask that? If you've asked a pregnant woman that recently, why do you ask it and what response do you expect? Maybe it's just me, but it really bothers me to be asked that. Maybe I'm completely not getting the point of it. Do I not seem at all excited while announcing the news? Do people expect me to bounce up and down and squeal every time we announce it? Do they think that I should ramble on and on about my pregnancy and how excited I am and nothing else? Do they think that this pregnancy wasn't planned? That bothers me the most. I'm young, I look even younger, I know I'll have a lot of people thinking that I'm a teen mother who doesn't know a thing about life, let alone pregnancy and raising babies. So that's hard enough, but I'd hate to think that anyone who even remotely knows me would think that our baby is unplanned. The past few times I've been asked this question I've had a strong urge to say, "We tried to get pregnant for over 10 months and planned when to get pregnant since we got married." But that's really nobody's business but ours, so I never say that, although it seems like that is the "right" answer. I feel like I act just like every woman I've known who has announced her pregnancy. I don't think I talk about it more or less than they do. So does every woman get this question or is it just me? :-(

Not much has been happening. I'm editing/proofreading a friend's novel. That takes up many hours of everyday. I love doing it though! I got together with some friends Thursday night, we're planning on making it a weekly event. I'm pretty happy about that, I'm finally starting to feel social again. Yesterday we visited Matt's grandparents' house. We haven't seen them in almost 2 years (and they only live 30 minutes away!!!!). I've seen both sets of my grandparents more than we've seen his the past couple of years, and one set lives over 18 hours away.

It was the first time I've ever been to their house. It was an interesting experience. It's very interesting because I can see a strong influence of his "grandma" on his mom (and even some on his sister). His mom wasn't really adopted by these people, she got to know them when she was in her early 20s and started working with the grandma. They used to spend more time together though, so I guess her personality and interests rubbed off on MIL. It's just weird, I kind of figured MIL had always had the same personality/hobbies/styles, but it would be too much of a coincidence for her to have always been this way and then happen to meet another lady who is almost the exact same.

It snowed again last night. This is the most it's ever snowed in a single year since I moved here almost 14 years ago. Usually it only snows once or twice, this year it's snowed 3 times. We got about 3 inches, but some places in this area got up to 8 inches. Matt is working from home today.

I've seen a direct correlation to the amount of sleep I get and how I feel as far as nausea goes. I'm still having problems with insomnia, but I'm trying to rest in the afternoons, which helps the sickness in the evenings. Last night I slept pretty well, in spite of getting up twice to go to the bathroom, once when the kitties started scratching on the office door wanting out, and then another time when there was some sort of explosion outside. It was the most bizarre thing. Something woke me up, I guess a noise from outside. Then there was a loud BANG and the house shook and a bright blue light flashed in one of the bedroom windows. Matt had woken up right before too and he looked out and didn't see anything. The power flickered right after it happened, but by the time he got up and tried out the lights it was back on. Weird, huh? This morning he went out and checked the power transmitter box thing in our backyard, but said it looked fine. lol

The car search is ongoing... I made the decision to go ahead and go along with Matt's plan. We'll have to buy another car in a few years anyway when mine starts going, so we can get a nice, long lasting car then that we can use for trips. We've been doing really well paying off loans and debts the past year. It would be great to be debt free by the time the baby gets here and paying off 2 of the 5 loans now will help us get there!

Enough about me, what is up with you!?