Best wishes for your pregnancy, Kate. I did suspect when I got your message about feeling really sick. I hope it passes quickly; the only thing that was really bad for me was brushing my teeth. I do not recommend ceasing to brush your teeth - you'll pay for it later. Literally.
I got pregnant with Casper 3 months after we moved to NC, and we moved cities while I was pregnant with her, but pregnancies and then babies do create friendships. Plus, we have the friendly people in the internets! It was great for me to be pregnant at the same time as Burrell (and our babies are EIGHT!! now).
Oh Kate!! How exciting!! I am so thrilled for you and DH.
As for raising kids away from family, Joe and I had Em 2500 miles away from ours and while it is challenging and I definitely felt the same way you do, it was awesome and like so many others said, we created our own community through daycare and parent's groups.
Kate, congratulations! And like flea mentioned, if you want to be pregnancy buddies, please email! (okay, that sounds sort of pathetic on my part but I don't have any pregnant friends at the moment and pregnancy related boards drive me insane so I'd be happy to chat any time, even if you just want to chat about feeling like crap.)
Congratulations, Kate!
My biological clock has yet to tick. It might someday, but right now one of my favorite things about my childcare job is that I get to give the kids back to their parents at the end of he day.
I'm on the road to Dragoncon, BTW-- phoneposting from the car. We're road tripping down. So excited!
Most of my issues revolve around the fact that I'm not Tina Fey. WHY AM I NOT TINA FEY?
Not being Tina Fey is sad. However, on the bright side, you don't bear even a passing resemblence to Sarah Palin.
Congrats, KateP!
I was a big fan of Night Court back in the day. So much that I wanted to be Harry when I grew up (and I was already in law school at the time).
ooh! yes, congratulations KateP!
Nuns save baby squirrels: [link]
awww
Although a lot of people really hate squirrels. My mother had an ongoing war against them, since they were hogging the bird seed in her feeders. And the local radio's "garden guru" referred to them as servants of Satan.
