Still no baby, but it won’t be too much longer. Every Sunday we drive by the Unitarian church and read their sermon topic off their sign. They always have such interesting topics and some Sundays it is so tempting to attend their one hour sermon instead of our three hour block. (One Sunday I was sitting in the last hour of church and one of the other primary instructors pulled out this cartoon.) The past couple of Sundays I’ve dutifully…
About a month ago Noel got assigned to be in charge of a church activity on February 24th. When he told me I was mad irritated in disbelief surprised. I heatedly said to him, “Are you kidding me? Don’t they know we’re going to have a newborn?” (My typically trustworthy intuition has been frustratingly off lately, but that’s another story.) As the event neared we made preparations for a low-key “Garden Expo” and I continued to complain. Noel simply told…
It snowed last night, which logically got me worrying about my unborn child’s tiny feet staying warm. The blog Delia Creates has been doing a nesting series the last week or so and one of the days featured a tutorial for some baby booties. They looked simple enough, so I whipped up a pair this morning. When Noel came home for lunch I was just finishing them up and asked what he thought. He said, “They’re inside out, right?” I…
As of today I am 37 weeks and 4 days pregnant. This is the longest I’ve ever been pregnant.* It’s nice to be considered full-term, but I’m honestly kind of bummed that the baby hasn’t come. I don’t even feel like ranting about the crazy, insensitive things people said to me at church or joking about how I should come up with a prize to give the thousandth person to ask if I’ve had the baby yet. The energy burst…
I’ve been pretty tired lately. More tired than I’ve been my whole pregnancy. You can tell by my To-Do list. Recently it has honestly looked about like this: Walk 1 mile Watch The Bachelor on Hulu Take a bath and listen to “Birthing Affirmations” (Hypnobirthing track that gets you thinking positively about birth) Nap Do hair and get dressed Load dishwasher Even with Noel making lunch and me letting Cooper stand 4 inches away from the TV while he watches…
The other day Cooper and I sat down to eat lunch with just the two of us. (We are lucky to live super close to Noel’s work so he generally joins us for lunch.) I had made fish sticks and tater tots because they were easy and they sounded good. Cooper took a bite out of a fish stick, laid it back down and refused to eat any more. All he wanted to do was dip his fingers in the…
If you want to hear the truth, all you need to do is hang around old people. And when I say around, I literally mean around. While there are plenty of elderly that will bluntly tell you what they think (sometimes I really look forward to old age when I can get away with this), some of the best truths come out when they think they are discreetly whispering to their friends. At church on Sunday when other people (some…
My mom emailed me some photos from the last time she visited. I love being able to take advantage of her talents so often.
One of the fun New Year’s resolutions I made was to make better cake. (Noel is of course very supportive of this goal.) I am a pretty good baker, but I have just never been very satisfied with my cakes. I bought some bleached flour (since it’s lighter than the unbleached we typically use) and set out looking for some recipes to try. (In case you were wondering, this is why my recipe board on Pinterest is mostly cakes.) My…
When Cooper was born I didn’t post much to this here blog about his birth story. For the most part that was intentional. I tend to be very private in some ways and very open in other ways (don’t ask how I decide to categorize things, there isn’t much rhyme or reason) and at the time I felt weird about spouting off my birth story on the internet. I didn’t mind telling the story. It wasn’t that I felt sharing…