We’ve finished most of the seventy-some things that I wanted to get done before the baby came. At this point I’m mostly resting, puttering, and waiting for labor to start. I’ve had more time to get out for walks; Sunday we went to the Tamarack Nature Center and took a long, slow walk […]
MFH and I did a lot of running around on Saturday, looking for the “right” car seat/child restraint system in the “right” pattern, and eventually found one. (It didn’t occur to us until we were in the fourth store to ask if they had what we wanted out back somewhere; I claim advanced […]
I had a baby shower from our church on Monday, and my dentist appointment on Tuesday, and now I am free except for work (proposal deadline next week, baby permitting). The shower went well, except the Target registry for some reason messed up, and we received four of the same baby carrier. One […]
I’m finding it hard to keep my nose to the grindstone for the last couple weeks of (paying, at-home) work before maternity leave. Especially today, other things took precedence. I was up early and got some housework done, did a lot of reading about posterior presentation and its implications for labor (the baby […]
FlyLady is right: I do have more energy when I wear shoes around the house. Especially this house, where there is hardly any carpet at all. I remember how hard the floors felt at first, when we were moving in from our carpeted apartment. Plus my feet are supporting a whole […]
I’ve been following the Althouse - Feministing battle of the boobs a little, and it’s been fun to watch Althouse lay down the I-was-a-feminist-before-you-were-even-in-diapers smack. It is ridiculous for a feminist blogger to stand in a look-at-my-boobs pose right in front of Bill Clinton in a group picture. I haven’t kept up with […]
Saturday we decommissioned Stinky, our mattress, and ordered a new one. I got Stinky as a second-hand dumpster-side treasure when I was single, new to Minnesota, and only had a hard cot to sleep on. Better a clean-looking, used, name-brand mattress than nothing. Picture me dragging a substantial mattress (queen) up a […]
MFH had to work all last weekend, but he got Monday and today off. So today we went to the Minnesota State Fair. It was nice to go on a weekday for once–not as crowded, so I didn’t have to do much stroller dodging. It was a surprise, though, to see the […]
Dr. Sanity has a good post on the psychological defense of anticipation (including a description of a Mars Mission medical simulation (!)):
Anticipation is defined as the realistic planning for future discomfort, and it involves something more than simply making long to-do lists, or even obsessive and careful planning for some event in the future. In […]
Our birth supply order arrived today–our midwife has a birthkit list set up at Birthwithlove, so ordering was pretty easy. There’s a few other things we have to get, but they’re more commonly available items. The big question on my mind now is where we are going to put our midwife’s birth tub […]