Fresh Beginnings and New Paths......

November....since that time, Winter in Northwest Florida has come and gone and the beginning of AbFab has since grown into something beautiful, Spring brought about an intoxicating smell of sweet jasmine on our back pergola along with beautiful fuchsia azaleas blooming all around our house and summer has been in full force with temperatures breaching 100 limiting runs and bike rides to steamy early mornings but increasing our time spent in the turquoise waters of the beautiful Gulf Coast. We are growing into our location, with each and every week settling in more and more even though the reminiscing has continued for me. Nostalgia of a phase in our lives that is in the past, and a continuous drive to want to embrace the new phase that we are in. House, dogs, new job(s) and A BABY on the way.

There, I said it. Wow, little did I know how completely in shock I would be at the thought of Chris and I embarking on yet another new phase. I knew that we had settled into the thought of having what we lovingly referred to as 'The 5 Year Plan", and I knew that a baby, though we talked about it regularly, was something that we just didn't feel completley prepared for. I have since learned that complete preparation for bringing a little one into this world clearly doesn't exist, but we thougth that somehow we would reach that 'we're ready' moment in a different way other that complete shock. I call it our 'planned, unplanned' little one. We couldn't ask for a better time frame. Chris isn't deploying, we have readily available resources for babysitting and assisting us as brand new parents (aka Mom and Lauren and Cory :-) and we have 3 years left on the Gulf Coast before we will even be thinking about uprooting to the next phase of our journey. I now work as a contractor for SAIC in addition to teaching yoga and being a partner in AbFab, so we have additional finances coming in (financially I have heard you are NEVER ready) but we will be working extra hard these next few months to build up our nest egg.

We're working on getting out of the shock phase and into the researching phase, preparing ourselves as much as possible for this little surprise that will be arriving in less approx. 7 months. First appointment is on Tuesday, our first ultrasound, our first chat with the doctors and hopefully a big leap into finally swallowing the fact that we will be parents! I will delve into the details of this discovery later, as well as report on how our first doc. visit goes. Here's to the next phase our lives, perhaps the craziest, most difficult yet rewarding adventure yet.  Approximately 12 weeks down by the way, 28 to go until the big arrival!