Let me turn this into a mommy blog for one hot second

My hubby and I moved into our house in August, 2009 after the worst experience with a Realtor in the history of the world (I promise I'll blog about it one of these days). Shortly after, Hubby called me at work and said he was headed to the animal rescue place where we'd volunteered and was going to pick up a new cat as a "house warming gift".

Now I was not at all keen on this idea. I told him absolutely, under no circumstances should he even think about bringing another cat home. Who needs 4 cats? Certainly not us. So nosiree, just get that thought right out of your pea brain, turn the car around, do not pass go, do not collect $200 and especially do NOT adopt another cat.

And of course when I got home there was a tiny gray kitten with white paws waiting for me. And it was one of those Hemmingway cats with an extra thumb. I was all, come ON, this is SO unfair. You had to pick the cutest cat EVER to adopt and now I'm supposed to be angry with you?

In the history of my cat ownership I have never had a cat that loved me more than other owners. The three other cats are pretty much obsessed with Hubby, but this one was different. He took to me right away. He would cuddle like a baby and lay on my shoulder and sleep on my lap. Eventually the thought popped into my mind: "I bet human baby cuddles would be even BETTER."

So time went on and I kept this thought to myself. Then one night, Hubby and I were watching The Hangover and at the end he said, "you know....if I had a baby, I would NEVER leave it unattended in a hotel room with a tiger." And that's how we decided we wanted to have kids.

With all that being said, I'm here to tell all y'all, Moms and non-Moms and maybe even some Dads (because let's face it, my male readership is like, literally two), proudly that, I'M GOING TO BE A MOMMY!

My due date is November 27, just in time to eat leftover turkey and dress that baby up in ridiculous Christmas hats. We're very excited, anxious, happy, shocked and all the other emotions you develop during the first trimester when everything makes you cry (including but not limited to, touching blogs, Carnival Cruise commercials, dog food commercials, "mean faces", too many phone calls, not enough phone calls, bad smells, your cat "dissing" you and grocery shopping.)

I can't imagine that I'll be posting that many pregnancy updates unless it gives me a good story (already using my baby for amusement), but I will on Facebook if you want to friend me. Now back to your regularly scheduled non-Mommy blog topics.