You may or may not have noticed, but I have been absent. Not blogging. Not really facebooking. Not tweeting. Not Instagraming. Not pinning.
And I have missed you. Missed your kind words and your blogs and your awesome pins and seeing what you are up to on twitter.
And soon, I am hoping to get back in the groove again. The separation anxiety has been too much.
Well, I might as well tell you why.
In about five months we will be gaining another member to our family. We are pregnant! Well, *I* am pregnant. But my dear hubby has been picking up the slack like crazy for the last few months so he gets full credit too.
Although we are thrilled and beaming and so, so thankful for this blessing, it has not been easy. I have been very sick. Its been severe nausea/sickness and exhaustion and migraines and some other not so fun stuff. For someone who suffers from motion sickness even when not preggers, this nausea has been debilitation for me. I would look at my computer screen and get sick. It got to the point where I had to hide my computer because the mere idea of being on it would make me sick.
But, as of the last couple days, things are starting to look up. I am typing and not dizzy. YAY!
The idea of baking doesn’t make me want to set my kitchen on fire so I will not have to go near it. I mean, not that I thought that. That would be crazy.
So hopefully, over the next five months, I will be able to get back to what I love. Baking. Blogging. And hanging out with you.
For the first time ever, we are planning on not finding out the gender of our newest miracle. This being our fifth child, I think we will be able to handle it. I mean, logistically. Emotionally I might be in the fetal position in my closet eating cool ranch Doritos and ceasar salad (that has been my cravings of late) because I CANT TAKE THE SUSPENSE.
I might need to lean on you for support. Please tell me you have done this and it didn’t make you crazy. Because if there is the slightest chance it will be stressful I might start stalking our ulstrasound tech.
My husband and children have unanimously decided that its a girl. However, we currently have three boys and one girl, so I think the odds are in favor of a boy. I have no idea. I have never guessed right with any of them!
But no matter what we are blessed with, we know he/she is already so completely and utterly loved.
And I just want to really apologize for how absent I have been. I know I mentioned it before, but I sincerely miss you all. Your comments and interaction in the iambaker community has been such a delight! Getting to know you better is a true joy.
Oh, and one more thought. In making this cake I got to thinking… not only is this is fun “We’re Pregnant!” cake, but could also be a fun Gender Reveal cake!
Maybe I will just update this post when our new addition arrives! 🙂
***Just in case you want to know, I call this cake the Rose Cake. Its an original cake the I created in Feb. of 2011 and have made many since! You can see my full tutorial here, or my video tutorial here!
Congratulations!!!!!!
Congrats!!!
You will be fine. If I can handle giving birth to twin boys when my 1st son was only 21 months old…you will be great. You have older children that will be better ‘go-fors’ than my little guy. I did finally have a girl when the twins were 3 years old. All of my of those boys have grown up and serve our country in the Airforce. Oh my little girl she is marring a man who wants to be an Airfore Officer.
Looking back it seemed hard at the time so I will share with you the wise words from mother in law (she had 9 children!) Some days you will have to break the day down to parts ‘if I can just get this morning done then it will be ok’ , ‘if I can just get this hour done then it will be ok’ etc. I found when they were sick my parts got smaller and smaller.
I believe all children are a gift from God and He will not give you more than you can handle. (it feels like He brings us to the edge of what we can handle) Your site is one of my favs and I will say a prayer for you and your family especially for you.
Father God I lift Amanda to you God and ask for complete healing, comfort, strength and joy for her. I pray that symptoms change immediately and her body functions in the way you God has created it to be. I pray for a smooth, easy delivery for Amanda and her precious baby. Amanda are a very special person and I will keep you in prayer every time I think of you.
Oh how you bless me Patti! Thank you for your encouraging and wise words and thank you especially for that beautiful prayer!
CONGRATS! So fun and so brave to not find out the gender, I say I want to do that, but as of now we have just two girls, so without a boy I don’t dare do it, my hubby really wants a boy and I don’t want any disappointment in the delivery room 🙂 Hope you feel better soon, pregnancy is so rough!
Congratulations!!! I had to find out with my little girl. It was our first child though so I needed to know so I could get organised. I thought she was going to be a boy though until we found out she was a girl so lucky I didn’t just guess. I couldn’t stand the idea of cake when I was pregnant. In those first 4-5 months if I even thought about cake I wanted to vomit. Luckily that went away and I sure as hell made up for it in the last few months….maybe a little too much 😉
CONGRATULATIONS!! 🙂
I can’t speak to migraines, but as someone who suffers fairly frequent bouts of vertigo, I know what the dizzies/nausea can do to you after a while! I haven’t tried it myself, but I have read several times that ginger helps. I usually pop seasick pills like candy, but that’s probably not a good idea when you’re preggers! Might want to try the ginger. There are also exercises for vertigo you can look up. I realize that’s to balance the crystals in your ears, but not knowing if your motion sickness is triggered by that, it might be worth checking out. 🙁
Congratulations! My husband and I didn’t find out with either of our children, and I wouldn’t have had it any other way. I loved the speculation done by everyone. I loved trying to figure it out for myself (I was wrong in both instances). And I loved the moment when my husband got to announce it for the room (the midwife handed the baby to him to cut the cord and make the announcement). That is one memory (well, two if you count it happened for each kid), that I wouldn’t change. I loved not knowing so much that I, a normal lurker, came out of lurking to tell you that you will not regret not knowing. It’s quite fun!
WOW! 5 kids! Congratulations!
I’m scared thinking of having/not having a 4th. We found out the gender of our first two, but didn’t with out third. It was definitely different but I found it so much more relaxing feeling like I didn’t have to plan everything and what a joyous moment when my husband called out “it’s a girl!” If we do have a fourth I think we would do it again.
Wow! Congratulations, that is wonderful news! We didn’t find out with our 3rd and last baby, and the excitement of the reveal was so amazing!
All the best to you as you hopefully feel better soon.
Blessings…
P.S. All I can think of when I see that blue icing is the flavor of blue bubblegum icecream. Yummmmmmmm……
Congratulations!! Awsome. You can hold out, yes you can. The news at birth cannot be beat. 😉 We did NOT find out with any of our seven living children and it was just sooo exciting at the end. Good luck with nausea. Eat more cake.