Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Shocking BIG NEWS!!!!
Current mood: blessed

True confessions of a blog slacker. It's been at least 5 months since my last real blog. I suppose my knack for not returning phone calls is now being upstaged by my proclivity to neglect my blog. I've been too busy living and not looking back to write it all down, but believe me it's not for lack of drama and saga, romance and lonely road strife. Pardon me while I wax philosophic and spew a barage of wordy verbage as I continue to procrastinate my duty to let the cats out of the bag.

It's hard to keep your private life private in this world where you open your diary up to friends and strangers everywhere. When I was a kid, we had real locks on our diaries. NO one, especially our siblings much less a stranger was allowed to read our diaries. We only wanted them read after we were posthumously discovered to be geniuses. Writing in my diary as a kid, I imagined that some day scholars would analyze my day to day struggles and look for early glimpses of my amazing talent and perspective. Yes, like most kids, I was egocentric and had a more than healthy dose of a sense of self-importance. But I digress...

The biggest news in my world is... here it comes... wait for it....my husband and I are expecting our first child!!

I still try to keep my private life private, but now that my private life is starting to show, I thought I'd share the juicy details. I won't be wearing any cut off Wrangler shirts for a while. I just played a show in Woodward, Oklahoma- my last road gig for a few months while I record a new album and of course, deliver a little miracle into this world.

For several months I wondered if I had a brain tumor or some kind of evil post nasal drip that was causing me to be nauseated and depressed. After ruling out carbon monoxide poisoning, we ran to a clinic one night right before they closed. When I told the nurse my symptoms, she smiled and asked if I had taken a pregnancy test. It had never entered my mind!!! SO I took the test, and then the doctor came into my room holding the wand of truth! I carry the little pink plus sign stick around in my purse as a time capsule of the moment my whole view of life changed.

I'm happy to report that the baby is healthy and growing more everyday. I've been working through the morning sickness which for me has been "all day except in the morning" sickness.

I just found out the sex of the baby, but my husband is old-fashioned and wants to wait until the baby is born to hear those words "It's a ...!!" For me, I wanted to know as soon as I could. I wanted to know everything about this powerful force that is taking over my body.

While this new reality eclipses all other events in my life, I'm also excited to report that "Mama's Don't Let Your Cowboys Grow Up To Be Babies" went all the way to 13 on the Texas chart. Pretty ironic that I'll be a Mama soon and will surely have to eat my words!

Also, I've been talking to some amazing producers lately about my next musical project. We'll be going into the studio in the not so distant future.

So I guess you could say I'm feeling pretty creative these days.
For those of you who thought maybe I'd been hittin' the Krispy Kreme a little too hard lately or eatin' too many naner sandwiches, now you know!