Evil Eye

I feel like I am moving in slow motion and time is speeding past me. I feel like I am not getting much done, but at the end of the day I always seem to have gotten at least a couple of things accomplished. I haven’t been posting here much because, well, I guess I didn’t want to turn this in to the pregnancy blog, and what is there to say about pregnancy other than it is really interesting, weird, and makes me very tired at this stage. What they say seems to be true, the second trimester is the easiest, and the third is long, and you are very tired. I’ve started taking naps. Naps! I’ve never taken naps. The kitties seem to like it. Big cat is staying with us, and he and my two cats like siesta time. I’ve got one next to me sleeping belly up. I am looking forward to sleeping on my back again. That is the other weird thing, the little things I miss. Like sleeping on my back, wearing jeans, having all my shoes fit me. My poor feet. They aren’t even very swollen, just enough that I am only wearing my sandals. At least I can show off my cute new pedicure. Krista took me out for my first pedicure, and it was lovely. The toes get neglected when you can hardly reach them. Now they are soft and sporting some shiny red polish.

We’re at the any day now stage of this affair. The due date is over a week away, but that is any day now, isn’t it? I have moments at 6am when I wake up worried that we still have so much to do, then I realize, how prepared can you or do you need to be? We have a home to bring the new kid to, somewhere to sleep, clothes, all that stuff. If some little item is missing, it can be picked up. I spend part of the day messing around getting stuff ready, then I get tired and nap. Now it is time to make dinner, and tonight, start a new baby hat. Or socks.

I hardly know what to say in response to the generosity and kindness I have been shown, other than, of course, thank you. In the last few days I have been given 2 baby showers. The first, on Saturday, was hosted by Sara and Brandy, with the help of Lane and Dan. We had a wonderful time surrounded by family and friends, ate tasty food, and enjoyed a sunny (and windy) day outside. They were kind enough to not subject me to the traditional baby shower games, for which I am eternally grateful! Later on we went inside and lounged in Sara and Lane’s apartment and opened up the beautiful gifts. This kid is going to start out life surrounded by some seriously cute and thoughtful stuff.

Then, to my complete surprise, another party was thrown for me at the South Side Stitch n’ Bitch! I knew Karen was coming with a lovely blanket she crocheted for me:

But I had no idea that everyone was planning such a lovely surprise for me. And, can I tell you how impressed I am at how well they know me? For example:

Wow!  I should have kept taking pictures, more people and food kept coming, but once I sat down with a piece of that cake, and some chocolate covered strawberries, I settled down into a happy place.  Dude, the cake had layers of cajeta!  But most of all, I am really touched that my friends wanted to do this for me and the baby that we haven’t even met yet, it really means the world to me.