One month

It is now officially one month to my due date.  Today has been really uncomfortable (back aches, Braxton Hicks, exhaustion, feet all swollen, gas, and hello hemorrhoids)  and I’m afraid that I am going to be pretty damn miserable for the remainder of the pregnancy.  There are a lot of crosswords being done, catnaps while [...]

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Vows of Silence

There are days, more than I can count, where it feels as though I talk and talk and talk and talk but it goes nowhere.  I can hear my voice, and I believe in what I’m saying, and it’s important to me.  And yet what I’m saying isn’t understood, is shrugged off, or worse, isn’t [...]

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Go Now!

Today is Thordora’s birthday and man, is she ever OLD!!!!!
I was going to write a birthday story for her event but I hate my birthday with such vehement passion that I can’t even bear to recollect any of the damn things.  Let’s just say that for the entirety of elementary school, my birthday parties were [...]

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well, we can always bring you in at 39 weeks and give you pitocin…

whatwhatwhat?  Because I mentioned that I cut it close getting to the hospital last time?  Induce?  Whoa.  Howsabout I just leave the apartment earlier, eh?  Seriously, I am still a little in shock that anyone would even say anything to me about the possibility of induction so that I didn’t have to worry about getting [...]

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But is it enough?

I’ve not taken the time over the past few weeks to enter all of my reduction numbers for the month. Frankly, they’ve been high again and I’m feeling like, rather than this being a progressive reduction, I’ve stagnated and possibly even that things are getting worse. Part of this is a result of [...]

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Of sleeper sofas and gift horses

For the past 4 years, my mother in law has been trying to get C and I to swap our lovely, teak framed couch for the sleeper sofa from her tv room.  Every couple of months or so, she’d ask if we were ready yet, and every couple of months we’d try and come up [...]

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I’m sick and whiney!

Today I was going to get the Salvation Army stuff sorted out but frankly, I feel too much like crap.  I’m thoroughly tired of tea with honey and lemon, and noodle soup, and blowing my nose.  I’m sweaty, tired, cranky and generally a big old baby.  And I have a 28 page program to proofread [...]

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I give up trying to understand

So in one of the brief stretches where I actually slept last night (thank you scratchy throat and mountain of snot) I dreamt that I gave birth, in a bathtub, with several other women, to a horseshoe crab.  With a broken shell.  It was like an assembly line; one woman gets in, has her baby, [...]

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Cloth TP Day 4 and I slept through the night last night!

I have decided that I am ready to start Lucy on cloth TP here at home.  She had expressed interest when I was first setting up for the challenge but never brought it up again so I’ll see what she thinks now.  I have some old sheets that are too banged up to donate, so [...]

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Cloth TP Day 3 and only slight backpedaling

I’m feeling much better after my vomiting forth of complaints (and 3 more hours of sleep.)   I’m still not thrilled about the constant mess, mind, but I do feel it’s unfair to throw out a laundry list of bitching without taking some blame myself.  It did feel good there for a minute, though.
In all [...]

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