Just a note to the internet saying that my kid better never get lost because she says things like ( Read more... )

 I just finished reading a book called "Devil in the White City" about the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the serial killer who built a hotel nearby so he could kill his female tenants.  It's a factual book, which made it creepier and more interesting.  (I learned a lot about different buildings in Chicago, which I really like since I lived there ( Read more... )

I'll be 38 weeks pregnant on Monday, and I am really ready to be all done.  This last leg of pregnancy is always the hardest for me.  I'm not sick, but I'm really tired of being fat, awkward and otherwise restricted in my normal activities.  Of course, now I know a newborn restricts your activities a lot more thoroughly than (most) pregnancies, but ( Read more... )

As far as intellectual milestones go, there were a lot that were much more subtle and took longer to reach than I expected, starting with sippy cups.  At first, Zoe would drink out of one only if you held it for her.  It wasn't enough to put it on the floor near where she was playing (this was before she could walk.)  Even though she had the basic ( Read more... )

...I am awake.  Thanks to this insomnia, I can't stay up much past 8:30 at night, and I feel like I haven't talked to my husband in an age.  Also, if I push it and stay up in spite of the exhaustion, I get visited by mild nausea and crazy/scary Braxton Hicks contractions.  On the up side, I think all these weird symptoms might mean that this kid is ( Read more... )

A list of things getting on my nerves right now:

1. I am awake.  Thank you pregnancy.  
2. Final shower committee meeting in about 13.5 hours.  Budgets have not been respected.  Diplomacy is harder when you are sleep-deprived.
3. That's pretty much it.  Oh, that and I can't get back to sleep in spite of an hour and a half of trying.  Good thing I have the ( Read more... )

There is lots of nesting going on at my house.  Somehow, I always decide to purchase and rearrange furniture during the last trimester of a pregnancy.  This happens whether or not purchasing furniture is in the budget.  (To some extent it can't be avoided because my mom LIKES to buy baby furniture, but I always pitch in too.  Last time with a couch ( Read more... )

 We've been watching Dexter Season Three on DVD the last few days.  It's by far my favorite season so far.  There was one scene last night where there were three serial killers in the Miami Metro PD station.  It is a fascinating show, but it cracks me up that there was basically a serial killer convention on the episode we watched last night.  How ( Read more... )

I'm at the point in pregnancy where  I could probably make a daily list of things that are irritating me.  I've tried to resist the urge, but here goes:

1. My paper shredder broke after just about a year.  I hate paper shredders in general and have pounded on this one a bunch because that is the only thing that ever made it work.  Yesterday my husband ( Read more... )

Today I swam at my temporary pool for the first time.  Overall the facility is nicer than the one I normally use.  It's newer, the locker room is much bigger, the showers have little shelves for shampoo etc.,  the temperature control actually works, and the pool itself seems newer/cleaner.  Still, I miss my normal pool ( Read more... )