Silver and Gold

I was thinking today of the lyrics "Make new friends but keep the old; one is silver and the other gold" because this morning a friend I hadn't seen in a year (since one of my baby showers last spring) came over and spent 4 hours with Nadia & I. It was her first time meeting Nadia. We've been friends since 1997. I hired her to teach first grade that fall. We worked together until 2003 when I left to teach at the college level, but we've kept in touch since then. It was so wonderful to spend time with Della today. This evening Nadia, Paul, & I enjoyed a picnic at my choir director's house; I only joined this choir in January so these are new friends.

As of today I am 8 weeks pregnant (1/5 of the way through if I go full-term). I can't wait for the next ultrasound. I also can't wait until I get to the stage where I can feel the baby moving. Doctor's appts aren't as big a deal when you have daily reassurance that the baby is alive and well. So far there are some similarities and some differences between this pregnancy and the last one. The morning sickness is about the same. Sometimes it lasts all day, and other times I only have it in the morning. Eating more frequently helps, and eating sweets makes it worse. Although poopy diapers don't usually bother me, the nausea is often intensified by smells so changing poopy diapers in the morning is rather unpleasant these days. The heartburn is better this time. Usually if I avoid chocolate, I can avoid heartburn. I am tired, but I can't take as many naps as I did the last time around. The same as last time, I have to pee seemingly 5 million times a day (particularly all through the night). In the morning my appetite larger than usual, but the rest of the day it seems my eyes are bigger than my stomach - my appetite has shrunk.