I love not taking the freeway to work. If only this weren’t for just a week. Without having such a long commute I have managed to avoid the heat more, and don’t feel as drained stepping through the front door ( Read more... )

I am up ten very well earned pounds. Although it is definitely too soon for the baby to be using my ribs as a jungle gym, I am getting a weird pressure right under my left rib cage and a movement every now and then which feels like bones moving back into place, although I didn’t notice them to be out of place. I felt the first movement behind my ( Read more... )

I stepped through the front door exhausted, parched, and hungry. My husband was freshly showered, throwing on clothes. Just as I put my things down, he was picking his things up so he could run off to class, but not before kissing me and the part of my belly sticking out from under my shirt. He tasted like tapatio. We barely exchanged hellos ( Read more... )

Fell asleep at 4 a.m. because there was so much movement and I was too excited to miss ones. For days after my first solid, undeniable baby movement experience, we finally both got to feel a solid push/kick from the outside of my lower abdomen. I lightly tagged the baby back, and then noticed she/he was interacting with me talking/singing/ ( Read more... )

Why do all the divorcees and individuals that have never been married, let alone been in a long, healthy relationship, make it a point to give me marital advice?

It's loverly to pull on short hair above the back of the neck. I don't remember ever having my neck this exposed, but I am sure I have. This is the first time I ever got my hair done at a place consisting of hair professionals and not in my mom's backyard and/or kitchen with a dull pair of scissors ( Read more... )

I am but a six year old ripping off green and red paper chain links and faithfully eating a chocolate a day, except there are more than 24 days to countdown, which means a hell of a lot more chocolate and a few more pounds to carry around ( Read more... )

Someone is going to buy 20 boxes of coffee from us today, for which I am thrilled. It is so out of no where. Every time I let go of the stress and the frustration, and just let the chips fall where they may, it just works out. I cannot explain this; it just happens ( Read more... )

I have had an amazing few days, and plan to have an amazing tonight as well. We saw our little one wiggling and zooming and kicking about last Thursday. To see the baby moving so much and seem so big on the screen I still cannot wrap my mind around the fact that I don’t feel the baby yet! Crazy. Of course, we did our measurements at the end of ( Read more... )

Boy, am I going through a process. People keep telling me I cannot afford to keep saying "next!" to the people I meet (doctors, midwives, etc.) because now, based off of my tracking, I am working on my fourteenth week. I don’t know what it is, but I feel compelled to meet "just one more" person. Admittedly, the last individual I met was ( Read more... )