Goddess of Fertility

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The waiting game

Yesterday our due date came & went. I guess that's what people are talking about when they say don't get too hung up on your due date! So we spent the last three weeks stressing that the baby might actually come *early*, when all along the little stinker was already planning on being *late*!

I can't say I'm surprised, knowing my track record and all....

In the meantime, I honestly feel fine except for the whole getting huge part. I actually bump into corners and doorways because I forget that I've got another passenger up front! Ha! OK that sounded weird but you get the idea!

So don't worry, I am keeping myself busy by talking on the phone, taking walks to the park, watching lots of "Baby Story" and "Oprah" (of course!), and playing with the cats. Oh, and online scrabble & Battlestar Galactica episodes on DVD have been occupying a good portion of our time lately too :)

So keep sending positive baby vibes our way and maybe soon this little bundle will make an appearance! It's kind of weird not knowing when it's gonna happen! The doctors were talking about inducing but let's hope it happens naturally in the meantime!

~Cheers!~

Baby room progress

Our theme is coming together!

Although the kitties still think it's their room -

Testing out the new baby blanket from "Grandma" Sanford!

You say goodbye, and I say hello

So, I hope everyone realizes this is soon going to become a baby blog... It's no doubt going to send some of my (thousands of!) readers elsewhere for stories of cat shenanigans, George Michael, and "Party of Five," but it's time I face the inevitable....

Tomorrow will mark *one week* till the baby's due date... Am I/are we ready?? Um, still not sure!

(BTW I can't say the words "one week" w/o getting that Barenaked Ladies song stuck in my head....)

Yesterday was my last "official" day in the office and I spent most of it saying goodbye to people. I have to say it was a really weird feeling.

I've worked for the same company for the past (gulp!) ten years and it's been the one constant in my life ever since I moved to Boulder.

I couldn't help feeling like I was going off to war or something. Like I will never see these people again. Mainly because I don't know what lies ahead. It's not like I'm not coming back, or won't see my friends while I'm out (!!!), but it's just the idea of delving into the complete unknown..........

And I am taking all this extra time off to spend time with... a baby???

It should be entertaining at least, right?

In the meantime, as the baby grows, the belly kicks are getting funnier and more topsy turvy by the day. I almost laughed out loud during a company meeting the other day when I got jabbed in the ribs!

One of my friends wrote a post about that baby-in-the-belly feeling, after the fact, and I wonder if I'll feel like this after the baby is born?

For Keeps

So, as promised, I rented both For Keeps and She's Having A Baby over the weekend.

I must have been on crack when I said I remembered She's Having A Baby being one of the best preggers-themed movies I ever saw, because it was actually one of the worst movies I've ever seen... In my life! And it was a John Hughes film, even. What's up with that?! It basically portrays marriage as a one-way ticket to the Burbs, and assumes that husband/wife will immediately become enemies after saying "I do" and fight nonstop for the rest of their existence!

Ha! John Hughes, why didn't you just tell us you wanted to be a teenager forever?

Anyway, For Keeps was a *little* more of the real deal. Kind of reminded me of Fifteen and Pregnant (starring Kirsten Dunst!) since the couple has their "oops" moment while still in high school but decides to have the child anyway, etc etc. A good amount of drama with a dose of realism thrown in. Plus it's just fun seeing Molly Ringwald with a giant preggers belly!

And for what it's worth, For Keeps is the one I saw in high school (when my best friend cried). I had never seen She's Having A Baby and don't know how it got mixed up in my head..... But -- its one redeeming quality (at the end) was a slo-mo of flashbacks while playing Kate Bush's This Woman's Work. I think it was probably the inspiration for that DUI/hospital scene between Bailey & Sarah in Party of Five that one time, but I'm probably the only one who knows what I'm talking about here.......! :)

baby shower!

Girl bonding! :)

And getting the baby's room set up... Fun fun fun!

babymobile

Yes it's true! Here we are in the lot, post-purchase!

And here I am saying goodbye to my 1st car love this summer.... :( sad!!