So even though this blog started out being more marketing and business oriented with tips for marketing/running your small business, little pieces of my life started sneaking in.
When those subjects turned out to be the ones that interested everyone the most, I decided to just roll with it and amended the blog focus to be, “my musings on marketing, business practices & life in general.”
Under my “life in general” craziness, I’ve talked about everything from my frustrations with selling our townhouse, losing my job and trying to find a new one.
What I haven’t talked about, until today is that I’m pregnant.
My husband and I had always said that we’d be happy with one child and since we felt secure in our jobs and money situation, decided to start trying to conceive last spring.
Now as any regular Pocketful of Joules reader knows, although I FELT secure in my job situation, I ended losing my job. So that just goes to show you that no matter how much planning you do to make sure you’re “ready” to have children, something always smacks you in the side of the head that you didn’t think about.
Moving onto the “Isn’t it Ironic” section of this post, I found out on a Thursday that it was a possibility that I might be losing my job. I found out a couple days later (after taking three tests, yes I’m thorough) that we were pregnant.
Although the timing sucked, we were (and still are) ecstatic!
Well, cautiously ecstatic – knowing the high possibility of miscarriages in the first trimester we tried to keep calm about things. We only told my parents and siblings and decided to hold off on telling anyone else until we passed that 12/13 week safety zone. Well, we TRIED really hard to not tell anyone, but I did tell a couple of my close friends that served as an awesome support system.
After a few weeks of being quietly ecstatically pregnant, we received a contract on our house Labor Day weekend – and then I found out that I was definitely losing my job when I went into work that Tuesday.
Let’s recap: super happy about being pregnant… but about to be jobless and homeless. Hmmm…that was so NOT in my plan!
Luckily, we were able to move into a rental house owned by my parents that just happened to have just enough space for us and our growing family.
I’m currently 19 weeks pregnant (in the 5th month for those non-preggos) and the baby and I are both healthy and happy.
I’ve had a pretty easy pregnancy so far with no morning sickness or odd cravings. I was actually hoping to have a weird craving so that I could send my husband out on a wild goose chase for something random, but maybe that will kick in later.
And yes, I’m planning my next blog post to be about the difficulties of looking for a job while pregnant. Because, although it is illegal to refuse to hire a woman due to pregnancy, everyone knows that discrimination still happens.
Congrats again! So happy for you and Travis!!!! And a pal for Emily 🙂
I can’t not comment here though – I looked for and found the position that I’m currently in at Battelle when I was exactly at the same point in my pregnancy too. Although I didn’t have a blog to share my experience with, it is a challenge when you are in that predicament. I did my best to not “show” and didn’t mention the pregancy at the interview. You don’t want them to have any reason not to hire you. After getting hired I finally came out around the 20 week ultrasound, I figured it was time and it would be hard to hide from that point on. It sucks that we find ourselves in these situations, but all in all, if your resume can prove you can do the work… let it speak for itself.
Good luck on the search 🙂
Congratulations!!!