May 30th, 2013
a most fantastic chapter indeed
“Wildflower in the wilderness outside / take your chance with love and laughter”
—Smashing Pumpkins
“You must be six months pregnant. EIGHT?? Well you’re carrying high. It must be a boy. A GIRL??”
—super random weirdo on the street part I, 5/28/13
“You have a beautiful baby in that belly!”
—super random woman on the walking path, 5/29/13
“I won’t be vacant anymore / I won’t be waiting anymore / I won’t be vacant anymore / I won’t be waiting anymore / … / Jenny, I’m seeing double / I know this changes everything”
—The National, This Is The Last Time
“Turn the light out say goodnight, no thinking for a little while / Let’s not try to figure out everything at once / It’s hard to keep track of you falling through the sky / We’re half awake in a fake empire / We’re half awake in a fake empire”
—The National, Fake Empire
On Saturday I become a ticking time bomb. OK, not really, but hey man. It is on. And though I’m pretty sure she’s a July baby in there, you just never know.
I can hardly believe it.
It’s been pretty fun being pregnant, at least (and weirdly) this last part, but that wasn’t the real dream—the real dream was a family of three. And it’s spectacular and awesome and stunning that after so much time this may actually happen.
And…that doesn’t mean we won’t miss our family of two, either. 🙂
Last weekend was a great representation of that. I hope we can spend the next few weekends as two just being together, too. Here are some great things about last weekend:
-Spent Friday getting baby room/stuff all set. Also acquired a few other very useful things from Christie (along with chocolate chip cookies). Success! Other than a few things this gal can make her arrival any day now…(gulp).
-Saturday I went to yoga and Jeff worked out. We then went to the plant store!!! Marigolds, pepper plant, tomato plant, petunias, dahlias and geraniums. The weather was all hazy and gray and weird all weekend but it made it somehow seem like it was just the two of us in the world. 🙂 Planted the plants and Jeff worked in the yard, mowing and trimming and being JEFF. Hours went by. I had snacks. Suddenly it was 7pm! Oh my. Oops.
-So we cooked up a deep dish pizza (thanks Chicago) and decided to watch a movie. UP. I cried twice, a lot. Once at the 4min montage and once at the viewing of the adventure book at the end. That her adventure was just being married to the love of her life – well that just got me. I want to cry just thinking about it. So beautiful. SIGH!
-Sunday I went swimming…a random superfit dude in the lane next to me expressed his admiration at my ability to kick. This was amusing because (1) I am a terrible kicker, it is my weakest swimming skill (2) I am huge and slow right now (even though water makes you weightless, it sure does not feel easy…ha). BUT it was a nice boost (and no he was not hitting on me, I am 8 months pregnant) and swimming was very very nice if slow/difficult, ha.
-Sunday night we went out on a date niiiiight! To Al Vento. The server was terrible. BOO. But the food was terrific and just perfect! We also got Jeff an extra glass of wine out of the deal and he was nicely buzzed which was fun. Then Blizzards and Mad Men! Yeah!!
-I slept a LOT and it was awesome.
-I went to the new gym Monday and walked/lifted, the owner was there cleaning and he was a doll. We are quitting the gym soon but it’s nice to know some owners of Anytime Fitness actually care about their gym! Ha!
-Then we hung out around the house doing miscellaneous things, Jeff playing videogames, etc., in the gray Monday. So nice to have so many days in a row off to relax!
And now it is Thursday and I must go, but yes. To the next chapter and to this one too, hooray.