Catch up

If any of you are still reading this blog, then you may have noticed that I've failed to document many a noteworthy event lately, including our Christmas vacation in Southern California and our son's first birthday festivities. I promise, though, that I have some good excuses.

Let's start with the mundane: work. My very illustrious employer has kept me insanely busy during the past month or so. In fact, Jared the Longsuffering came and picked me up one night at 2:30 a.m. so I could sleep a bit on the way home. I also had to squeeze in a short-notice trip to NYC, but it was so intensely work-oriented that I traversed only the three blocks between the corporate apartment and the office, and ate pretty much every meal in the basement cafeteria. Basically, the month of January was a complete loss in terms of my personal life. Luckily, our big deadline of the moment is past. Enough about work.

The more important reason for my absence is that I have been deathly ill. Don't worry; it's nothing that the passage of time won't cure. In August we'll be bringing home a sibling for the Piggy. Unfortunately, morning sickness struck with a vengeance the last few days of our Christmas break and has not let up since. I'm feeling slightly more human this week, so hopefully by the end of the month I'll be back in the swing of things.

In the meantime, Jared is doing pretty much all the household chores and I am dragging myself to and from work and lying on the couch for a couple of hours in the evening. It's been pretty demoralizing; however, when I think that next year at this time we will have TWO little kiddos underfoot, I know it is all worth it! After this, though, we will take a break; I told Jared I don't think I can do this again until I am retired and can endure this phase of pregnancy from the confines of my own home/bathroom and not wonder how I am going to strike this mythical "work-life balance" people speak of.

Oh, and in other news, my brother Devon is engaged to the lovely and talented Annette Reddoch, so we will be making a trip to California in May for the wedding. We're very excited for them!

That's the Hexberg update for now. This weekend I will try to post a few pictures of the aforementioned holiday and birthday.