Thanks for making it difficult, U.S. Navy

Jerks.

Now that I think more about this on a comprehensive level, Andrew may as well be absent during this entire 9 month (actually 10 month) period of my life. Let me say this is not happening because he is choosing to be absent, more like the Navy makes normal everyday life so inconvenient for the sailors that their lives revolve around the ship (duty days, underways, deployments, trips to Yorktown for no reason, drills, inspections, qualifications...). As Andrew and others always say, "If the Navy wanted you to have a wife, they would assign you one."

Oh, United States Navy, how I hate you. Let me count the ways.

1. Andrew was on duty the day I found out I was pregnant. I was wayyyy too excited to keep that secret, so I had to share the news over the phone with him while he worked that entire Saturday.

2. I am now 20 weeks along and Andrew has been able to make it to only one of my appointments at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth. He was able to make it to my first ultrasound, where we saw Peanut dancing around. That was at 10 weeks.

3. Luckily, we made an elective ultrasound appointment for while we were in Texas for the holidays. Otherwise, we would have had to wait until December 30 and he would have been on duty for that appointment as well. I would have had to share the news with him in some interesting way other than us finding out together.

4. Before we left for Texas, I signed us up for the baby bootcamp class that is at NMCP. January 17th. 8 hours long in one day. Ridiculous. But probably good for us to go to. We found out right as we left for Texas that he will be underway the entire month of January. Looks like I am going to baby bootcamp all alone. Great.

5. Since we currently have a roommate, we will not be able to start on the baby's room until Jimmy is reassigned. When that happens, it will be late March - early April. Where will Andrew be? In sunny San Diego. Fantastic. Leave the heavy lifting to the pregnant lady.

6. While in sunny, wonderful San Diego what else happens? Oh yes, that's right. My due date. I will most likely be having this child without him. Truly fantastic.

Thanks for making this pregnancy easy, US Navy. You can suck it. (I'm not bitter. Not even in the slightest.)