Daily comments from people:
"Look at you! You look like you are ready to POP!"
"Wow, that's impressive."
"You should be thankful we haven't had a hot summer."
"I can still see your ankles, it can't be that bad."
"You aren't going to go into labor now, are you?"
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Monday, August 8, 2011
6 week litmus test
(Caution: This post is not funny or cute or upbeat.)
I am bored. On top of my boredom, I am uncomfortable and hot. I have 6 weeks left and am literally counting the minutes. Everything about me is being tested right now. My physical pain threshold, my heat tolerance, my sitting-around patience, my mental anxiety, my self-esteem extinction and my sleep deprivation. I don't know how or why any women would want to do this more than once.
On the bright side, I am working from home full-time now, my husband is around more to help me, my stepson is doing great, and I don't have any swelling.......(yet).
I am bored. On top of my boredom, I am uncomfortable and hot. I have 6 weeks left and am literally counting the minutes. Everything about me is being tested right now. My physical pain threshold, my heat tolerance, my sitting-around patience, my mental anxiety, my self-esteem extinction and my sleep deprivation. I don't know how or why any women would want to do this more than once.
On the bright side, I am working from home full-time now, my husband is around more to help me, my stepson is doing great, and I don't have any swelling.......(yet).
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
T minus 8 weeks
In my mind, the countdown is on. My airline travel days are over for awhile and I am looking forward to the next 2 months of grilling, chilling, and waddling around. We just got back from Maine, which proved to be a bit much for my pregnancy stamina. Next time, my friends and family will just have to come here to visit!
Here are some recent baby-on-board photos...
Monday, June 27, 2011
Not happy about the Rainbow Connection
Our beloved Gifford Pinchot National Forest has been infiltrated with the Rainbow Gathering! This is not good. There is an influx of THOUSANDS of people squatting in our pristine wilderness. Trampling the land, filling trenches with human waste, threatening our forests with fires and blocking our passage to our favorite hiking, biking and camping spots. They call themselve peace loving hippies that lack any sort of structure, organization or real cause to fight. Somebody needs to tell them that begging, drug-use, and a complete lack of social & medical structure doesn't make you a lovable hippie...it makes you a burden on the rest of us. 
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Thursday, June 9, 2011
So upsetting, it made me kind of sick
I walked into the nail salon today for my pedicure:
Candy (the owner): "Hi Izzy! Look! Another pregnant lady!" As I looked at the young pregnant woman getting her nails done, her obnoxious mother yells across the room: "When are YOU due? My daughter is due is 2 weeks, isn't it great!!!"
Me: "Wow! You are counting the days, huh?" I said to the young pregnant woman. The young pregnant woman just smiled politely. I proceeded to climb into my pedicure chair as I wondered just how young that young woman is. She looked in her young 20's. Her mother sure does seem to be clingy and running the show. Poor girl. I wonder what a young 20something thinks about when they are pregnant?
Me: "So is this your first grandbaby?" I asked the obnoxious mother who doesn't let her pregnant daughter talk.
Obnoxious mother: "Oh no! I have several. She already has a 3 year old at home." A 3 year old, I thought! She is so young! Just how old is this girl? What the hell is wrong with these people. The young pregnant woman continues a conversation with her mother about the plans for her brothers' birthday...he is about to turn 21.
Candy says "Your brother is going to be 21? You should take him out to get a drink, then."
Young pregnant woman: "Oh no, I'm not old enough to do that....I am only 19".
WHAT.....THE....F**K! This is when I got really mad. I was so mad that this young girl had to have been pregnant at 15, in order to have a 3 year old and be pregnant with her SECOND baby! Then I started to get REALLY mad at the mother. How dare she strut around her teenage daughter and brag about her having babies. That poor poor girl. She was brainwashed. Then I started getting mad at all the breeder-types like that girl and her mother...and the taxes I have to pay to support their litter of children...and tolerate their rediculous "faith"...and the republican people that try to run this country. It was so upsetting, that I was making myself sick. Ech..what a waste. All I wanted was to sit in my favorite massage chair and get my feet pampered.
Candy (the owner): "Hi Izzy! Look! Another pregnant lady!" As I looked at the young pregnant woman getting her nails done, her obnoxious mother yells across the room: "When are YOU due? My daughter is due is 2 weeks, isn't it great!!!"
Me: "Wow! You are counting the days, huh?" I said to the young pregnant woman. The young pregnant woman just smiled politely. I proceeded to climb into my pedicure chair as I wondered just how young that young woman is. She looked in her young 20's. Her mother sure does seem to be clingy and running the show. Poor girl. I wonder what a young 20something thinks about when they are pregnant?
Me: "So is this your first grandbaby?" I asked the obnoxious mother who doesn't let her pregnant daughter talk.
Obnoxious mother: "Oh no! I have several. She already has a 3 year old at home." A 3 year old, I thought! She is so young! Just how old is this girl? What the hell is wrong with these people. The young pregnant woman continues a conversation with her mother about the plans for her brothers' birthday...he is about to turn 21.
Candy says "Your brother is going to be 21? You should take him out to get a drink, then."
Young pregnant woman: "Oh no, I'm not old enough to do that....I am only 19".
WHAT.....THE....F**K! This is when I got really mad. I was so mad that this young girl had to have been pregnant at 15, in order to have a 3 year old and be pregnant with her SECOND baby! Then I started to get REALLY mad at the mother. How dare she strut around her teenage daughter and brag about her having babies. That poor poor girl. She was brainwashed. Then I started getting mad at all the breeder-types like that girl and her mother...and the taxes I have to pay to support their litter of children...and tolerate their rediculous "faith"...and the republican people that try to run this country. It was so upsetting, that I was making myself sick. Ech..what a waste. All I wanted was to sit in my favorite massage chair and get my feet pampered.
Monday, June 6, 2011
23ish weeks...or am I 24 weeks?
My cousin, Claire, is also pregnant with her first baby. She has made a special request for some updated belly shots. Here you go, Claire!
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