Monthly Archives: January 2012

week thirty-five

Posted on January 30, 2012 by | Leave a comment


*This post is a few days late…

Can you believe its already been 35 weeks??? I can’t.

The months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds of this pregnancy have seemed to alternate between flying by in a blur and creeping slowly.

Now that we’re down to the wire, I can’t wait for Baby to join us. My dreams of beautiful chubby cheeked babies and happy, smooth hospital deliveries are ramping up and I find myself wanting so bad that I can’t stand it. He’ll be here soon but now I really am starting to feel like the waiting is going to kill me.

I’m not the only one who is about to expire from anticipation. Kaleb has started up his countdown and makes sure to announce every morning how many days we have left until D-Day. Hopefully Baby makes his appearance somewhere around that date, otherwise he’s going to have a seriously disappointed big brother.

Last Sunday, my fantastic in-laws threw Harry and I a surprise shower. It was a surprise for me. He’d been tasked with getting me where we needed to be on time without giving anything away. Good job husband! :) I had absolutely no idea. A girl could get used to walking into rooms and hearing all of her loved ones yelling out “surprise!” Its such a wonderful feeling, knowing that we are loved and that everyone just as excited about the arrival of Baby as we are.

This week’s appointment held a little more excitement than all of our previous ones. Despite dreams of Baby moving so much that he flipped himself breech, he’s still where he’s supposed to be. And his head is *right-there* according to the doc. She confirmed that the God awful hip pain that has started up again is definitely sciatica – which sucks but Baby will be here soon and it will all have been worth it. I’ve just got to remind myself of that when it hurts to climb into bed or in and out of the car every day.

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bookworm monday: delirium

Posted on January 30, 2012 by | Leave a comment


Delirium by Lauren Oliver

I’m sure I’ve mentioned it before but I can’t say it enough – I’m loving the fact that dystopian fiction is so in right now. There are just so many good books in this particular genre. As a person with an occasionally over-active imagination, its not hard for me to picture a world of extreme government regulations on where we can go, what we can think and who we can associate with. *shrugs*

Anywho – Delirium is a worthwhile read. The idea that “love” is against the law and treated as a disease to be cured in this story is what makes it subtly different from some of the other dystopian fiction books I’ve read. I liked this book so much more than Matched (which at a passing glance seems somewhat similar).

I was a little disappointed in the ending but that had more to do with the romantic in me than the quality of writing(which is excellent, in my opinion). What can I say? I love happy endings. :)

What are you reading this week?

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pinterest friday: vol 1.27

Posted on January 27, 2012 by | Leave a comment

I’ve been wanting to get maternity photos done since before I started showing but I dropped the ball and waited too long to start hunting around for a good photographer (procrastination is the story of my life lately).  So I’m thinking of going the self-portrait route.

There are so many beautiful examples. These are all going into my mental idea book.

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bookworm monday: the buddha in the attic

Posted on January 23, 2012 by | Leave a comment


The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

The book follows a group “picture brides” on their journey to the U.S. from their small villages in Japan and ends with their internment after the Pearl Harbor attack.

The Buddha in the Attic wasn’t at all what I was expecting. It was written in a collective voice – almost in prose, rather than written in the first person or narrative . Its a quick read – roughly 105 Nook pages, and definitely worth your time. After reading it, I’m curious about this particular time period and on the hunt for other books about picture brides.

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week thirty four

Posted on January 20, 2012 by | 3 Comments

Lets play a game of “What Sucks Worse?”

  • Being pregnant and catching the flu the plague a cold, not being able to take any OTC remedies, being knocked completely on your ass by said flu plague cold, and being left to wonder how many more gallons of mucus its possible for your nasal passages to produce and hold.
  • Craving a bean and cheese burrito so bad that you are dreaming of truckloads of them, but not being afraid to eat one because the heartburn you get just from the thought is enough to make you nauseous. But then even water is heartburn inducing at this point so I guess its more of a matter of is this so delicious its worse the insane fire esophagus?
  • Being exhausted and wanting needing sleep but not being able to get it because it hurts to lay in any one position too long causing you to toss and turn constantly which is in the end not at all conducive to sleeping and in fact makes you that much more tired.

I have not yet been able to determine which of the above is worse. I’m not sure that I’ll be able to. We’ll just call it a draw…

Welcome to 34 weeks. Blech.

A week later and the cold is pretty much gone. Now my usually crappy sinuses (which end up being downright shitty to me when pregnant) are just doing the cleanup work of getting rid of all the congestion. Seriously, how much snot can a body make in a one week period? If you have an answer, I’d love to know. And while you’re at it, find 10 synonyms for mucous and I’ll bake you a batch of oatmeal cookies.

The bright spot in my week was a surprise baby shower thrown by my friend Kecia last week. Its amazing to feel loved, isn’t it? I walked in the door and saw all my friends and family standing there and burst into tears, true estrogen overload style.

I didn’t remember to take any pictures at all, and true to procrastinator form I forgot until the very moment I sat down to write this post that I never did ask anyone to email pics to me like I’ve been meaning to all week. So be on the lookout for those next week.

The obsessive need I’ve had for months to go buy every baby thing in the world in preparation for Baby has slowed, if not disappeared all together. Now we’re working on figuring out where to put everything because I forgot how much stuff babies have. It does my heart good though to look and see shelves full of diapers and bags (that are yet to be unpacked because of the previously mentioned cold) full of accoutrements.

Despite having planned/vowed to get going on the quilt, I still haven’t. If I don’t get a move on now, I’m going to be hand stitching that thing at the hospital between contractions. I guess its doable as long as I’m not having to push out a one year old. Because that would just be downright scary.

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