I am 99% sure that nothing is going to happen in the next 24 hours. My midwife just checked my progress again, and we gots nada. So basically, I've got until the 4th of July before she starts panicking to get Pea out ( Read more... )

Tom put me on bedrest yesterday morning because my right sacral-illiad joint is now starting to feel as poorly as the left. So instead of going to the birth center for my midwife appt, Catriona came here. She checked my progress and said that while my cervix is still closed, it is very soft, and that I am 75% effaced. The latter means that ( Read more... )

The night after Tom and I made our papier-mache 'Belly Cast', I find this ( Read more... )

This weekend: One huge grocery shopping, one cancelled birthday party, one puking/feverish child, one excellent phone call from Grammy, one major Tom deadline fraught with software problems, one evening with my mom's sisters from WI, one photo session with the extraordinary HollieHo, one sunlit nap with the exquisite Miranda Estelle, and one quiet ( Read more... )

I haven't updated for a long time, mostly because I feel kinda 'whinebitchmoan' about the last trimester, but Tom assures me that I'm not doing that, but rather just sharing with him what is going on and how I feel. Also, I've gotten kinda protective of my space-- both physical and emotional-- over the past month. I'm holing up, getting ready for ( Read more... )

Here are some pics of my Baby Shower...

http://flickr.com/photos/59292718@N00/

I haven't written for a while because I hit a whirlwind and went on strike sometime in the past few weeks ( Read more... )

Lots of updates ( Read more... )

It seems that one image (ONE IMAGE) that was not recovered from my computer before it was shipped into the height of Hurricane Katrina for repair (and never heard from again... BWAhahahaha!), is the ONE IMAGE that a major portion of my thesis argument hangs on ( Read more... )

It's been an interesting few weeks.

( My father is out of the hospital )