I'm Pregnant!

In case any of you have missed it, I'm pregnant with number 2. For me this is a complete surprise and for the first few weeks I was in total denial. Then the "night sickness" set in. Couldn't deny after that. They will be about 16 and a half to 17 months apart depending on when #2 decides to arrive.

I'm very happy about it now and want to tell everyone and anyone except the WIC people cause I feel like a rabbit. I mean sometimes I would sit there waiting for my turn and think "maybe they shouldn't be having that many kids if they need the financial assistance" and here I am doing the same thing. Makes me feel like a big fat hypocrite. The only thing that gets me over that is knowing the teachings of our church and that having these kids is the best thing in the world.

Due to some personal and financial decisions, we will be going to a hospital this time for the birth. The goal is for an all natural birth again and I'm excited that we will be able to have a doula with us. Though I told her that if the baby came on Christmas Eve or Day that we wouldn't expect her to come cause she should be spending time with family, she said she is committed to helping us with our birth. I feel so blessed to have the services of such a dedicated person and we still have 6 months to go! (If anyone in my area wants contact info, let me know)

So here is to excitedly waiting for baby #2 who is going to be a surprise just like #1 :)

Clothesline

 Last year sometime (summer/fall?) we were a Home Depot or maybe it was Lowes (honestly who cares?) looking at bolts or nuts or something when I turned around and found some clothesline wire. Now I had been trying to talk Nick into making me a clothesline for quite awhile, ever since I  married him I guess. So I thought that if we got the wire that would help jump start my line. NOT.   :)

A few weeks ago it started to get really warm outside and got me thinking about a clothesline again. Nick really, really, really doesn't want his clothes dried in the dryer and I was getting really tired of trying to fit a load on to the only rack we have left. (which is going to be needing to be replaced soon if the sagging in one direction gets any worse) I said something about a clothesline to Nick a few times but, since he is working full time and taking some classes this semester, I didn't really expect anything.  For some reason the clothesline would not leave my mind though.

Nick kept bugging me about not using the dryer and "honey the rack is plenty big enough for a load" (yeah, if you drape clothes on top of each other so they take longer to dry!) so when I stumbled upon the clothesline wire in the garage again, I decided to see if I could set it up. I strung it from the end of the porch to the closest tree in the yard.

What do you think?

Its not a long as I would like it to be, but I don't have another obliging tree. I didn't know what to do with the leftover wire so I just kinda looped it around the tree.

I hope that someday I can have a real clothesline that is much longer or at least has more space to hang clothes. I really like hanging my clothes outside now that I have this line. I just wish I had room to hang up two loads at the same time so I don't always feel like I'm playing catch up with my laundry.