The baby is still cooking!
Thank you to everyone for your cards, emails, phone calls, facebook messages, visits, and blog comments! I’m spending little to no time on the internet, and am extremely exhausted (third trimester!), so I haven’t gotten back to many of you, but I wanted to let you know how much your words of support and love mean to us! THANK YOU!
And now I’m back to the couch…
My midwives have put me on house confinement. (I know, it sounds like I’m being shipped off to a nunnery!) I’ll spare you the biological details, sufficient to say that my body is tittering on the edge of going into labor and it’s just too early. So, I’ve been told to take it easy (ha!), take a variety of natural supplements to postpone labor, and lay down for the next three weeks. No more yoga or trips in the car. Lots of books and movies and down time. Thankfully David can work from home, so I have someone to bring me food and generally try to keep my spirits up. The upshot is my labor should be fairly quick and easy… and my midwives are completely nonplussed about the whole thing. So, I am trying to chill out and relax… and not get too bored. Hey, this will probably be the last bit of relaxing I’ll be doing for a long time.
Let’s all say together, “Baby, stay in mama at least 4 more weeks.”
(Technically, we have 7 weeks to go.)
I totally love my new glasses.
It is truly awesome to be able to see without my contact lenses in. Finally, I have adorable glasses, with my most recent prescription, for an affordable price. (They were less than $30. Really. A friend recommended the company, who happen to be just south of us in Marin County.) Yes, we have vision insurance. No, I couldn’t find any frames that I liked for less than $300 at our local vision shop (had the same problem last year). And you know what? I like these more than those Versace ones I was totally digging. It’s not like I ever leave the house with my glasses on. (Hello, I live in California where it’s sunny even when it’s raining! Love my contact lenses and sunglasses.) These have been a long time coming.
Drinking out of bell jars. They just hold so much more than our regular drinking glasses.
Eating latkes. I think we may have to celebrate Hannukah for a few more weeks.
Digging California winters. Rain here and there with some sprinklings of sunshine. Just gorgeous.
Hanging with awesome mamas and babies. I love making new friends.
Selected recent twitter updates:
+ The baby kept me up most of the night kicking and moving around.
Preview of things to come! I think we’re gonna have a night owl. 12/15
+ Feeling a bit cold. Perhaps I should put real shoes on rather than flip flops. 12/14
+ The best part of our Harry Potter 5 movie party? Hanging with our awesome friends. 12/11
+ Heading to the library with two bags worth of books to return. Love that they are open late. 12/10
+ Wearing matching pjs and being super cozy on the couch.
Love Saturday nights with the husband and California winter weather. 12/8
Final Reminder!
If you want to submit photos to our Photo Matching Game, please email in a photo of yourself when you were a baby and a photo of you taken recently.
Then we will all get to guess which baby photo belongs to whom.
I hope you will join us! The more the merrier!
Photos are due by December 21st.
Thanks for participating!