Tupelo Honey

after a much needed break from tupelo honey

[the blog, not the life. tupelo honey is definitely a lifestyle.]

i’m back. 

for now. 

until life pulls me away and i break again. 

but i’m learning not to let it [the blog. blogging. being a blogger.] stress me out. i’ll blog when i feel like blogging and i’ll take breaks when i need them and if you’re ok with that, i invite you to keep following this story of mine.

with that said, let’s get to it.

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whew. what a month it has been. maybe a little over a month? i don’t know, but it’s been a while. 

we’ve had a lot going on in the carmine house. a lot of exciting changes coming our way. a lot of big decisions to make in the upcoming months. while some might find just the thought of it all overwhelming, this is when andy and i thrive. we welcome chaos with open arms, always have- BRING IT ON!  

we’re really excited to share the most exciting news of all with you… we’re adding another member to our family! we are thrilled and can’t wait to meet this sweet little baby growing inside of me. 

questions we get a lot:

1. when is the baby due? mid-october. a libra! 

2. how are you feeling? good, not great. i can’t complain, i’m making A BABY after all, and that’s all that matters. but i’m dealing with more symptoms this 1st trimester, some i never experienced with bean: N/V/morning sickness ALL.DAY.LONG, increased back pain (didn’t come until 2 trimester with mads), exhaustion (on non-work days, i’m napping 2x’s per day, 2-3 hrs at a time), nightmares i can’t shake the next day, insomnia (call me @ 4-5am… i’m up), weight loss (my mom keeps saying this is the best i’ve ever looked- and i’ve had a baby and pregnant? heck yeah), oh, and my husband’s personal favorite- i’m terribly HORMONAL!

3. do you want a boy or a girl? whether we have a boy now or later, we definitely want a boy. but it will not hurt my feelings one bit if we have a girl… i’ve always wanted a sister and nothing would thrill me more than giving madeline the second greatest gift of all (besides life)… a sister <3. 

4. are you going to find out what it is? we thought about being surprised, but then i remembered that i’m lindsay carmine and there is no way i could wait. i’m too type A, too control freak, too OCD to not find out. besides, i like knowing what i’m carrying for all these months, i like calling them (we hate “it”) by name. i loooove dreaming about what they’re going to be like, and it’s too hard for me to do that without knowing. 

5. do you have names picked out? yes. since i was 13 yrs old. hahaa seriously though, our boys name will not change, our girls name is pretty solid but open for discussion. i will reveal them when we find out what we’re having.

6. (and the most awkward one of all…) did you plan this pregnancy or was this an ‘oops!’? the original plan was to wait until april/mayish- we were going to take a trip to italy in april, drink lots of wine and eat our faces off- and then start trying for #2 once we got back. but then andy realized that would mean another february baby and with our yearly winter schedule already jam-packed (thanksgiving-christmas-wedding anniv-new years-my bday-mads bday-valentines day), he put in a last-minute special request for a fall/halloween baby. 

for those of you that know andy, he doesn’t ask for much. so when he does, i try to deliver. so i told him that it was either an october baby or italy… you can guess which option he went with! needless to say, we starting trying in january and i was pregnant by madeline’s first birthday! 

the pictures above were taken the day WE found out**. technically, i already knew… the morning of madeline’s first birthday, i didn’t tell anyone, but i took 2 pregnancy tests. both produced the faintest of lines… so i kept the news to myself, crossed my fingers all day (and whispered to mads to wish for a brother/sister when she blew out her birthday candle) and just enjoyed the day with family and friends. the picture below? it’s our first family photograph of 4. a new baby, A NEW BABY!! eek! 

**these pictures we taken the day after madeline’s bday party, a sunday. andy had gone into the office for a bit that morning, and i took 2 digital pregnancy tests (no lines, just pregnant/not pregnant) and 2 reg tests while he was out of the house. both digital tests read “pregnant” and i got 2 + lines with the regular tests! it was now official, so i came up with a fun way to tell andy that he was going to be a daddy again… i grabbed a white onesie and a black sharpie and got to work. madeline was waiting in the window for andy when he came home a couple of hours later- nothing thrilled me more than seeing andy get just as excited this go-round as he was when i told him we were pregnant with madeline. he’s the best dad ever.  

and as they say, the rest is history. here we go again!!!!!