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13 days (+/- 14)

Okay, well clearly not minus 14 anymore. We were betting at school that you’d either come today and quickly since we have carpet cleaner, realtor and house painters - but since the carpet cleaner has been here and gone, it’s raining so the house painters aren’t coming, and the realtor is due in 50 minutes […]

Einstein

What I learned about inertia during 1st trimester:
An object in motion stays in motion, an object at rest stays at zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
What I learned about inertia during 3rd trimester:
An object in motion stays in careful waddling motion, an object at rest stays at at rest …. until it has to pee.

15 days and counting (+/- 14)

Favorite moment of the week.
In the office at work, we have a men’s one holer bathroom, and a women’s one holer bathroom. About a month or so ago, I was waiting for the women’s to open up, tempting myself with the idea of just using the men’s. When the women’s room opened up - out […]

I outgrew this one too


26 weeks ago


One thing no one warned me about ….

I had to pee in a cup at my last midwife appointment. No big deal.
Till I realized that my preggers belly blocked the view of the pee and the cup. I was having to shoot blind so to speak.
Scout really didn’t understand my amusement at the whole deal. But he did point out that he […]

16 days BA (Before Alex) - Give or take a few days.

So I’m planning ahead. I have a pregnancy book that I really like - “The Pregnancy Countdown Book” by Susan Magee that has something for each of the 280 (+/-14) days of pregnancy. I decided that clearly the best idea for me is to mirror this idea and write about the first 365 of Alex. […]