long time coming.

I can't remember the last time I have had a spot of time to blog. I meant to keep more of a running record of my pregnancy, but the last month has been so crazy that I fell behind. So what has happend?

Well most of late December featured S sicker than a dog. All of Winter Break he looked/felt as if he would die. We barely made it through without a trip to the emergency room. What also made this time interesting was the fact that in about 3 days we got 16 inches of snow. The first batch being light and fluffy, the second batch being wet slush that froze and made our attempts to exit the house and drive cars tricky for a pregnant woman and her ill-ass man. (We were eventually saved by a visit from D, who came down and with brute strength busted out some of the ice blocks.) I stayed completely healthy throughout the whole ordeal, even started and ran both snow blowers- until I returned to school. Once I encountered the 4th graders something in my immune system snapped and I got a version of S's illness. Wasn't very fun, but we got through it.

The house, and all of our plans for improvement, fell by the wayside for a bit. So we were a little stressed to keep looking at the disaster that was our house and the progress that still needed to be done on the baby room. He was sick, I was pregnant, he was still sick, I was sick and pregnant- it made for some interesting times. Once we regained our health we faced the fact that January marked 35 weeks pregnant for us, and 3 baby showers (two of which were at our house), and the great changes that still needed to be done to the baby room. As we didn't know when Anyara may show, it was kind of a gamble as to how we scheduled our work.

So far, so good. We have made some good progress on the house, we had our first baby shower, and have another today at our place. The room is close, doable if the baby was to make her appearance. As for the baby, I have been doing my best to keep her in- at least till the end of January! As for my pregnancy, I have continued to feel great. The belly has definitely grown in size and does make my life tricky when I try to do things- which has been frustrating at times with the amount we have to do. The only real down-side to my pregnancy has been this blood blister that has developed on my forehead. I used to have a small red spot on my forehead, but the increased blood flow has turned that small spot into a red blob the size of a large pea. I have tried lancing it several times, but it simply bleeds like crazy and then regains it size. It is so enormous that I know part my hair on the other side of my face to hide it. I have an appointment to see if it can be removed before birth- and I am hoping so.

My first baby shower was hosted by L and contained all of the ladies who still had connections to my family from church. It was a little awkward because I am having a friends shower, a family shower from S's side, and the church shower. There wasn't any real place to invite family from my family's side. I wasn't surprised that my mom didn't volunteer to throw a shower, but I was surprised to find that she was trying to get L to host them at her church shower. Pretty embarrassing for me, but that is just mom- all about her comfort. sigh. Her constant offers to help, but refusing to do anything that would be uncomfortable for her is driving me INSANE. I am trying to be rational about it, and am winning most of the time. I went into the shower feeling that it would be a complete dissaster- I mean who would still remember me? But I was proven wrong. It was a lovely shower, great people- lots of people actually. Nice to see everyone and catch up, and my goodnesss the pink that came out of that shower! GIRLY!

Today's shower scares me a little more as the number and happiness of people is a little up in the air. Also irritating me is the fact that several people need to show up 3 HOURS EARLY!! Seems outrageously inconvienent to me, but I am trying to be decent about it. We'll see how it goes. Speaking of early, I should probably go shower, who knows what today will bring.