second time around

this is my inaugural post! i should be writing christmas cards (less than a week to go!) but i really wanted to get this started...

we're expecting our second child - a sister for our first daughter, the bean. when i stop to think about it, it is very exciting, but mostly i'm just feeling tired. and i'm tired of saying that i'm tired. i remember feeling awesome when i was at this point in my pregnancy with the bean (2nd trimester), but that surge of energy and feeling normal again has eluded me to this point. still, feeling very grateful not to have had morning-sickness with either pregnancy.

what's a bit troublesome with this one, though, is that my voice has been affected. i'm a singer and the last time, i could sing just fine throughout the whole pregnancy. my singing is okay, but i've had quite a bit of pain in my vocal cords when speaking and sometime when singing if i don't concentrate on my technique. HUGE relief, though, the other day when an ENT checked & said that my cords were "pristine" - the pain is from a lack of support when speaking/incomplete vocal fold closure and apparently there's nothing to be done, except to birth the child. 2 1/2 months to go...

so now that i've started my blog, it's time to stop for now. do wish to scribble a few notes before heading out to a christmas party with the family. really looking forward to the party - friends have arranged a horse-drawn wagon to take a big group of us around the neighbourhood while singing carols. how christmasy & awesome is that?

much more - and baby - to come...