As Promised

So many of you have been emailing me and commenting about "the news" and what your guesses are. You are all so sweet and so RIGHT! Chris and I are expecting our first baby!!!!!

I am about 7 weeks due February 2 (the Monday after the Super Bowl)! LOL....those of you who really "know" me know that this is a huge deal because football is a big deal in our home! It's pure irony. :-)

We are SO incredibly excited. We are incredibly blessed. We thank God every single day that He has given us such an amazing miracle! I love knowing that there is a little person taking form inside of me (although, it still doesn't seem too real yet).

So far, I only have spurts of nausea...nothing major. I'm more exhausted than anything!

I had my first appointment on Friday and it was more health history and blood work than anything. I look like I've been hitting the drugs something serious! My arms are all bruised up because my veins decided not to cooperate.

My first u/s is on the 25th...internal......fun. :-)

Chris is determined to come to every single appointment with me. He is incredibly involved so far and I thank God that he blessed me with such an amazing man who wants nothing more than to be the best husband and father he can be.

So that's part I of my big news! BABY FLYNN IS ON THE WAY!!!!!!

Please keep me and our little sweet pea in your prayers.

Part two is the not so good part. I found out I was pregnant two weeks ago on Sunday and that Tuesday, I lost my job. Seems to be a disease in my family! Chris and I are actually OK with it. I never talked much about it on here, but the truth is, I didn't fit in to that organization (if you can even call it that) at all. They worked a lot more hours than I was willing to put in. My job description changed about 6 weeks in to my time with them. It went from you typical 9-5 HR Assistant to a 9-wheneveritgetsdone HR/Marketing Assistant. My priorities are God, my husband, family and friends, my home, and THEN everything else. I made that perfectly clear when I signed on. Well, after another 6 weeks of me not giving 100% (as in 10:00 work nights, holiday weekend work, etc.) they decided to let me go.
It's OK though, it's more than OK, it's wonderful! I don't want to get in to what the owner was like, but the way he runs things is a sorry excuse for a business, and he is a sorry excuse for a business man.

His philosophy for all of his new employees is "learn it yourself". HA! I was working on assisting another new person in contract writing and she was just as frustrated as me, if not more. The difference between us is that she put in the hours. I refused to.

Anyway, I've now been unemployed for 1.5 weeks and have an interview on Thursday for a temporary position (it starts in July and goes through September. Chris and I are going to live off of his income and use whatever I make between now and when the baby arrives as our savings cushion.

While I can say that it hasn't been easy losing a job...it's ONLY a job and I'm not a career oriented person. I'm a mother and wife oriented person. It's what I want. To take care of my family and raise our children through God.

That's what's happening in the Flynn house.....cat's out of the bag!