Today, I no longer have to stress about jury duty... I did my "laudable civil service" yesterday and now they can leave me alone for 2 years. Not that I'd mind serving on a jury, but pregnant and nursing women should get excused just like the people who claim to be a student but "forgot their ID". At least I made $12 for my day spent in a back-breaking chair!
Today, I have a doctor's appointment. They are getting to a more fun stage now, I'm assuming my cervix will be checked again (I'm going to request it) and it would be great to hear even a little progress has been made. I'm ready when baby is! I don't dread the scale anymore either, at this point I've gained a net total of 9 pounds, and so for me to even top out at 15 within the next 2 weeks would be tough to do (not that I'm trying)... how cool will it be to weigh LESS than before I was pregnant just by giving birth!!!
Today, I have completed 36 weeks of pregnancy... 252 days!!! That's 9 months, as far as I'm concerned! If Emalie is born from now on, we are good to go! I am so praying she will come on her own before I have to endure the amnio, but with my track record, it's iffy. I do have lots of contractions and cramps and (sorry) bits of mucous plug being lost here and there... again, ready to see what my appointment today reveals.
Today, I managed to get up on time to get Ian and his skeleton project driven to school well in advance of the bell. And this project is THA BOMB... I think he'll get a 100 for sure! Of course now I will be ready to pass out at 8pm, but it's all good.
Today, it is FRIDAY and that means I get to spend the weekend (one with NO prior engagements or obligations for once) relaxing and nesting as the urges hit.
Today, the sun is shining and the birds are singing and flowers and trees are beginning to bloom, and thinking of my growing little baby soon to join the fresh, springtime world makes me think of this Bible passage, one of my top 10 all-time favorites:
1 O Lord, you have searched me
and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue
you know it completely, O Lord.
5 You hem me in—behind and before;
you have laid your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
16 your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
Ian with his skeleton project:
Sweet baby pillow I made for Carrie's Elena...
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