I haven't written anything here in a month! Whoops!
I'll bring you all (all one or two of you who read this) up to date on recent events. I'm 40 wks pregnant now, with no signs or symptoms of impending labor. It's getting incredibly uncomfortable, if I may complain for a few moments. I can hardly catch my breath. I see stars if I walk up the stairs too quickly. When I walk around there's a pain that shoots down from my hip to my knee. I've had heartburn for 3 months (at least.) Since January I haven't slept through the night. Lately, I wake up about 6 times per night to use the restroom - partially because my favorite thing to eat/drink is a giant cup full of water and a whole tray of ice cubes (which I enjoy chomping on more than I enjoy eating actual food.)
Ok, enough of that. I'm excited for the baby to be born, but I'm not looking forward to my 40 wk appointment tomorrow because my doctor told me last week that if I hadn't gone into labor by then she wanted to induce me. I don't want to be induced...so I'm not looking forward to the conversation. I spent a few hours in the St. Barnabas PET Unit on Wednesday, so I'm honestly not looking forward to going back to the hospital at all. In the last few months I've given a bit of thought to the "birth experience" and how ridiculous and over the top a normal labor/delivery is treated by hospitals and doctors. I really, really wish that I'd thought about this stuff seriously a LOT sooner and tried to find a birthing center or done a home birth or something with as little medical intervention as possible. Aside from Cervidel to soften my cervix, Devan was completely natural and not that big of a deal. I hate the idea of all of the monitors and IV's instead of actually drinking fluids to stay hydrated. I'm complaining again. I'll stop.
I doubt that I'll update this again before the baby is born. I just don't really have anything to talk about.
Sarah Palin, who is an idiot and therefore just doesn't get it, proudly told a pro-life conference that she considered an abortion before choosing to have Trig.
Usually everything Sarah Palin says is a lie, but her well-documented attempt to conceal the pregnancy and the fact that she got that amniocentesis point to a genuine intention to terminate the pregnancy, until she thought it over some more and chose to carry Trig to term.
She thought this was a really great anecdote to share with a group that thinks that she should not have legally been provided with the option she didn't choose.
And they all probably loved her little speech anyway because, hey, she may be a moron, but she's their moron.
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We've been busy around here... and it's been a little stressful. First we had our anniversary, which was nice and low key. I can't believe it's been 5 yrs since we ran off to Canada and got married! And now that the 10th has passed, I can't believe it's been 11 years since our first date! It's been a long, hard trip for us, full of problems and struggles but it's nice to feel like things are falling back in to place and that we're moving forward in a positive way. We've been doing marriage counseling for the last 4 months and it's helped so much. We have had a really hard time communicating for so long, and it's really opened things up and removed a lot of what we thought were problems, but were really just miscommunications. It's nice to feel close again. Things seemed pretty hopeless for awhile so it's really nice to feel hopeful!
After our anniversary we started the switch - moving our bedroom to our family room, and our family room to our bedroom. If you've ever been in my house, you'll know that my family room was a deeeeep dark red color and desperately needed to be painted. We chose a nice calm, neutral color called Gobi Desert. I'm not totally happy with putting my bedroom in this room because there are no windows, so there's no breeze, which I hate. But on the plus side - You know how when you go to a hotel and you use those blackout curtains and you can sleep all day and not know what time it is? It's like that. The pic on the left is new, and on the right is how it used to be. It's also much bigger now, with room for the changing table, baby's dresser & bassinet.
We hit a HUGE roadblock when we moved our bed into the new room. The very first night sleeping in bed, I woke up (with a terrible toothache) and heard this 'tap, tap, tap' sound. I put my arm out and water splashed on it. It turns out our upstairs toilet had started leaking (coincidentally on the same day we painted the ceiling, yay!) and was dripping through the floor. It took us a couple days to find the source of the leak and stop it - but we did. But for now, we've moved our bed onto a different wall.
Our family room is nice. Now it's the open, airy room. Lots of light and lots of room. We've done a lot of sorting and throwing things away, and moving furniture to other parts of the house to keep things more simple and nice. I am enjoying getting organized. It feels good. I don't have a pic of the family room right now. I'll wait until I've got some art on the walls or something. It's boring right now.
As far as baby news goes, well there's no 'real' news to speak of. I'm 35 wks pregnant and sort of miserable! I'm excited for her to be born and to meet her and give her kisses and smell her little head. I've been knitting and sewing and making things to give her:
I've got some more works in progress. A little pinafore, a cabled owl vest, and various other things but I'll show you pictures of them when they're finished.
In Devan news, well, she's silly as usual. She's on spring recess right now and has been watching lots of movies because it is NOT warm out. I think it's supposed to warm up towards the end of the week so we can hopefully get out of the house or have a playdate outside or something. She's excited to be a big sister (as long as it's not on her birthday!) and she likes the new bedroom/family room arrangement. I'll be back soon with a shorter, more interesting post (hopefully!)
We were all pretty shocked to hear the story about the 9-year-old Brazilian girl, who, after years of being raped by her stepfather, wound up pregnant with his twins. Adding insult to injury, the Catholic Church has decided to excommunicate the little girl's mother and the doctors who performed the abortion, "God’s law is above any human law," said regional archbishop, José Cardoso Sobrinho.
Although abortion is illegal in Brazil, exceptions can be made if the pregnancy poses a grave threat to the mother's or baby's life. Since the girl is only 9-years-old and weighs a mere 80 pounds, doctors felt that she would be unable to carry the baby to full term safely. One of the doctors involved, Rivaldo Albuquerque, told a Brazilian TV station that he intended to keep going to Mass, regardless of the archbishop’s order.
The Vatican defended the regional archbishop's decision saying, "It is a sad case but the real problem is that the twins conceived were two innocent persons, who had the right to live and could not be eliminated."
The stepfather who sexually abused the little girl for over 4 years has not been excommunicated. The church has stated that the sexual acts he forced upon the little girl and her mentally disabled older sister are not as bad as ending the life of an unborn child. "It is clear that he committed a very serious sin, but worse than this is the abortion," Sobrinho declared.
I guess it's about time I updated this thing. I haven't really had a lot to say. There's been a lot of stuff going on, but nothing I want to talk about publicly (nothing terrible, just not for public consumption.) As far as the baby, though, I will update on Saturday after our 4d ultrasound (with pics!) I've been knitting for her, and thinking about some fun little quilts. Mostly though, I'm stressed out. I don't want to have Gestational Diabetes again, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to. I also don't really know where to put ANY of the baby's stuff. We're thinking about swapping our family room for our bedroom, which would be nice and good --but our sectional sofa is a monster and might not fit. There's also an issue of storage and all of my art and craft supplies. It's a little first world nightmare that I can't wake up from. :(
i was bored today so i went and bought a couple things that looked promising.
first of all, infallible lipcolor by revlon. basically this is like, nailpolish for your lips?? and it wouldn't come off til i scrubbed it really hard with a cloth and now all around my lips it's all pink, like when you get your mustache waxed (only the top and bottom instead of just the top) ...and it doesn't help that i bought the wrong color, so it looked weird. I will post a normal makeup picture and this infallible (ha!) lipstick picture to compare (please ignore my weird smirk. i don't know why i do that) :
the hair stuff...well I was told I needed product in my hair and I know what a 'product' is but i don't really know which product would make my hair do amazing things. I looked for a really long time at a lot of stuff and I bought these 2 things:
Paul Mitchell Wax Works, which promises extreme texture but basically just made my hair kind of sticky and greasy looking.
Paul Mitchell Re•Works, which says it's a versatile texture cream. I didn't try this yet, because the sticky wax stuff is still in my hair and I don't have the self esteem to fail at hair twice today.
Basically I need lots of help and I don't know what to buy, which colors 'work' for me, what hairstyles look good on me, or how to use the products I buy.
I forgot to update this thing! Jan 2 I had my 20 wk ultrasound. It's a GIRL
So since then, girl names have been tossed around, impossibly small dresses have been purchased, and baby girl knitting has begun. Devan's pretty excited because she wanted the baby to be a girl. But the names she is picking out are...well...let's just say we're not naming a Webkinz or a kitten, we're naming a human child here!
I'll update this again when I've got some new thangs to talk about!
-(07-09) LIKING:
strawberries, skip-bo & uno, bagel sandwiches, water, crunch n munch, my babies, my bed, the ocean, travel, sleeping in my bed, not wearing pants, tenament museums, linen, Air (the french band), Hugh Laurie, SYTYCD, Iron & Wine, Clive Owen, letterpress, Yeats,
gray, mini-pigs, Chowder, tea, Quebec, vacations!, modern simple quilts, spring, white on white, paper, lily snoring
