There’s something I’ve been meaning to tell you…
Things are about to get a little bit crazier around here come December!
I’m 23 weeks pregnant! This has not been easy news to keep to myself, especially since I spent weeks 5-15 feeling extremely nauseous and even more extremely tired. Recipe testing and filming videos was hard for a solid ten weeks, and those of you who follow along with my Instagram stories know that I’ve been filming a lot of videos recently.
Now you also know why I’ve been filming so much, I’ve been working hard to get ahead. I’m finally feeling pretty good now and am so grateful for that.
My morning sickness symptoms have pretty much followed the same pattern that they did when I was pregnant with Luke, which perhaps makes sense considering…
We’re having another boy! Another sweet baby boy.
Honestly, once again I was somehow surprised when they told us during the ultrasound that we were having a boy. I don’t know why, but somehow I always imagined I’d have girls and not boys. I had 4 sisters and only one brother and just expected I’d always largely be surrounded by girls, I guess?
Clearly I was wrong, but I’m so, so grateful and blessed to be having baby boy #2 and am glad that Luke will have a brother 💙
Speaking of Luke, well let’s just say he has no idea what’s coming for him 😂.
I think he’s tired of me trying to explain the concept to him, and now when I bring up the baby he says “No baby! No!”, so while that’s not exactly what I want to hear, I’m hoping it’s not his true sentiment!
I’m very eager to see how he reacts to having a little brother, but right now he just doesn’t really understand. My sister is due to have her own baby boy any day now, and I think seeing how he is around his cousin will be a good clue.
In addition to my family growing, Sugar Spun Run is growing, too. Or rather, it has been growing behind the scenes for a little bit now.
I’ve had to come to terms with the fact that I can’t do it all by myself. Not if I want to keep up the same extremely obsessive standards that I do for my recipes (and I do!), not with all of the social media, and not as I now create videos for every new recipe post (do you subscribe to my YouTube channel? We’re getting close to 100,000 subscribers!).
So, I’ve brought on help! Help with video editing, juggling social media, and the behind-the-scenes work of running a blog. Help that I’d like to introduce you to, but haven’t asked permission to do so yet, so you’ll have to wait for that.
Baby #2 is going to be born in the midst of holiday baking season. This is by far my busiest time of year, so having help will allow me to continue to answer all of your comments and questions and continue to keep publishing the same carefully tested recipes (I will always do all of my own recipe development, recipe testing and photography, among other things, nothing about that is changing!) at the rate that I do now.
Things are definitely crazy here right now as I’m working what feels like nonstop to make sure recipes are prepared and everything is in place for the mini “maternity leave” I plan to take when the baby gets here.
Thanks for sticking with me through a non-recipe post (new recipe coming Thursday!), and I hope to be sharing more behind-the-scenes posts like these before baby 2 arrives (and of course I’m always sharing life snippets over on my Instagram stories!). 💜
anne dunning
Lots of favor and blessing seems to be coming your way! There has to be a reason for that! So happy for you and yours.
Carol Guinn
I’m so happy for you and thank you for sharing your joyous news with us. You have such a good history of recipes on your site now that we will be good if you take a break for baby.
I love how creative you are and that anything seems possible like making your own vanilla extract and sprinkles! Doing things myself really resonates with me and I love part of sugarspunrun.com.
As a business woman I know how hard it is to get help and still have enough control to keep your quality where you want it. So happy your Youtube and site have grown; this means you are doing it right!
Have a great pregnancy.
Dawn Williams
Congratulations on your upcoming new arrival. Big brother may be jealous for awhile. Just give him extra attention and he will adjust. Don’t wear yourself out. We will wait for you to get back in the kitchen. 😁
Mary Easton
Congratulations on baby boy #2. So happy for your family!
Liz
Congratulations!! When I first saw your email I thought you were starting to put up Christmas cookie recipes and since I just bought a new cookie press, I was really excited, but even more excited with your news!! Take care and get your rest! Love so many of your recipes, especially all the chocolate chip cookie ones.
Pamela Voisey
So happy for you all
Luke will probably love baby at first then the jealousy might start, but he will be a awesome big Brother.
💙💙. A NEW BABY TO LOVE ❤️❤️
Lois Pappadis
Congradulations, Ask me about boys a total of 8 boys and finally a girl . mine was a yours mine and lastly a girl . They are mostly dads themselves but do I love my boys and my daughter was a special pick from God. ( I guess he felt sorry for me lol )
Gina DeMarco
Congratulations to you and your family!!
This is wonderful news!!
U hope you have him on my birthday, December 9th!! ❤️ 💙🥰
Dayna
Oh I’m so excited for you!!! I was just wondering last week if you would soon have baby#2. So happy. Signed a Nana in in KC 💙💙💙
Jackie
So sweet and exciting! Congratulations!!
Jesse
So happy for you and your growing family Sam! Congratulations! God bless!
Jenni Shirts
Congratulations! So excited for you and your family. ❤️
Lisa
Congratulations on your new addition. I have 2 boys myself. Good luck with the rest of your pregnancy and best wishes to the new big brother.
Judy
Congratulations!!
Rachel Ward
Aww that’s wonderful!!! Congratulations!!