these days.
let's bring these back in to the mix, shall we? do you guys remember when i was good at keeping to a schedule and did one of these every.single.week? i vaguely remember that. it seems like a lifetime ago. pretty sure i wasn't pregnant back when that was happening. my, how life changes.i'm sure there are a few (dozen) of you who are thinking to yourselves, "great this entire update is going to be about baby and pregnancy stuff. gross/boring/dumb/please stop." i promise that it will be no more than half full of that stuff, but what can i say, this is my life right now. it kind of consumes me, and if i can prepare any of you for that journey by sharing in my experience, then i'm happy.i can't wait for the weekend to start either. i'm registering for baby things tomorrow with my mom (a latte at the target starbucks is on the docket for sure), and we might even be able to work in the garden if we get lucky. i'd even take rain so that i can cozy up and plan out how/what i'm going to plant in the backyard when the ground thaws. i'm in one of those moods where anything sounds good to me. i hope your weekends are just as wonderful as i'm imagining mine will be.
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these days i’m…eating strawberries like they're going out of style. they went on sale at the grocery store here last week and i may have bought and eaten three packages in that time. i can't help it, they speak to my soul.
trying to be calm about all the unknowns coming up in the next year. i personally think i've done a good job so far, but every so often, i start to think about all the things that we have left to do/don't know about yet/can't possibly begin to plan for and i get a little hyperventilate-y. DO YOU GUYS EVEN REALIZE WHAT LOOKING FOR DAYCARE IS LIKE? it's terrible, is what it is. not to mention trying to figure what my work life is going to look like. wait, what was i talking about? trying to be calm? yes, that is happening. you be the judge as to how that's going.reading absolutely nothing. well that's not true. i've been reading back issues of magazines on the bus like it's my job, but no actual book reading is happening as of late. mostly because i can't figure out what to read next. i've read the divergent series, but i'm in the mood for some really good fiction to try out. any suggestions?wearing all the most comfortable clothes i own. give me all the stretchy clothes i say! i can already tell that in a matter of weeks, i'm not going to ever want to put on pants, and i'm just leaning right into that instinct. i did make myself put on jeans with a belly band today, and immediately pouted when i got to work because i wasn't wearing leggings. [shameless plug: now that i have an actual bump, and it's pretty obviously due to a baby, i'm posting a lot more bump outfit photos on my instagram, so if you're not already, you should go follow me on there.][gallery type="rectangular" ids="2985,2986"]praying for a lot of people. Mister Man and i decided during lent to pray for one person or couple of people that we feel could use some extra love in addition to our regular nightly prayer. it's been such a wonderful practice for us, and i would love to keep doing it after lent is over. it makes us think about our friends and our community of people around us a little harder than we might normally, and it really helps us be grateful for everyone who's been put in our path.drinking ALL THE WATER, all the time. this is a bad combination with my pregnant bladder, but i'm trying to stay hydrated and non-puffy (i can already sense that my rings might not like my fingers for all that much longer). and also i'm craving it? can one crave water?loving green everything. now that the snow is gone, i am like a little kid on christmas waiting for all the green to appear outside. we don't take our springs for granted here in the tundra i tell you! there isn't much growing here right now, but i'm crossing my fingers that i'm going to see the tops of the bulbs i planted last fall start to make their way out of the ground. i have the opposite of a green thumb, so even though i'm pretty sure i did everything right, i have my doubts that they are actually going to grow.
also loving baking again! last week i got the itch to make cookies, and i did and it was so lovely. i hadn't baked anything since i'd gotten pregnant, partly due to lack of energy, partly due to the fact that i can't taste the batter with the raw eggs, and it's not as fun to bake something when you haven't been able to taste it first. mixing that batter and putting those cookies in the oven made me feel so "normal" again, just like myself.working on planning the nursery for baby z. in fact, Mister Man and i have a hot date at the home depot tonight to look for closet doors, wall trim and paint colors. because getting the nursery ready means getting the basement bedroom/office finished up first so we can move the guest bed in there. our basement is a mess right now with changing table/carseat/crib box taking up space everywhere, but until we finish the office AND paint the nursery, we can't move anything new into the baby's room. so we are moving full steam ahead while i can still help with some of it. i'll be doing most of the prep work since we can't ventilate the room properly for me to be able to paint safely. darn.
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