Entries from March 1, 2008 - April 1, 2008
Still here
I'm still here. I know some of you were wondering. Still pregnant. Still super uncomfortable, pretty cranky and hoping for these last 2 weeks to pass quickly.
The good news? It has been in the 80's here and I've taken the boys to the pool twice. My pregnant skin soaks up the sun and I've got a nice little brown glow. Now I'm off to put Ethan down for his nap, AGAIN.
Sheryl Bane
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EmailA New Day Brings New Clarity
So today brought a little bit of clarity to our weird wild day yesterday.
The older man's daughter came to our door. He is in the beginning stages of alzheimers. He has good days and not so good days. We live at the beginning of a cul de sac. He had decided to take a walk around the cul de sac and just stopped a few houses short of his own. No big surprised there, we figured it was something like that.
The ferocious crash? Well, as it turns out, I wasn't THAT far off with my aliens suggestion. What we heard was the sonic boom of the space shuttle landing near Orlando. Yankees that we are, we had never experienced something like that. Pretty cool, eh? Hopefully the next exciting thing that happens in our lives is the birth of our baby girl.
Weird, Wild, Freaky Stuff
So this morning, Scott, Ethan and I are at home. Little Einsteins came on so Ethan assumed the comatose position of laying on the floor in front of the tv with his blanket. I decided to take the few minutes to post on my blog some pictures of my about to burst belly. Scott (who works at home, THANK GOD) was rearranging the computers at the desk. Scott and I were both in our bedroom which is right off the living room. So maybe we were 10 feet from Ethan- maybe. Ok, got that picture in your head? Good.
As I was typing I heard what sounded like our Garage door closing. Ethan and I had just gotten back from Target and I knew I only had a few minutes until we had to pick up Luke from school so I left the garage door open when we got home. But I ignored the noise thinking it was probably the heater kicking on because it seems impossible that our garage door would be closing.
The next noise I hear sounds like someone is coming in from the garage into the kitchen. I contemplated ignoring that noise too, it seemed impossible that someone could be coming into our house. But, as I put down the computer, I said, "that sounds like someone just came into the house." I took one step out of our bedroom only to see A STRANGE MAN standing at our kitchen table! The man was maybe in his 70's and dressed in a shirt and tie. I gasped and my husband pushed me out of the way to handle the situation. Let me say here how grateful I am that my husband works from home and I did not have to handle this situation by myself not to mention that at this point I was shaking like a leaf!
For all of our friends across the pond and in other countries, let me tell you that Florida (the state where we live) is the place where many people move to when they retire. We have many elderly retirees on our street. Through the course of my husband's verbal confrontation with the strange man standing in our kitchen, we came to a very sad resolution. The man simply was in the wrong house. Last month the man lived two houses down from us with his daughter. Then the house two doors down from us in the other direction went up for sale and he moved there. He was coming home today and somehow got turned around. He ended up in our kitchen. All was well but left us a little frazzeled. Mostly we feel bad for him knowing he must've been humiliated.
Then tonight we got the boys in bed and settled in at the couch for a little quite time. We were all warm and snuggli when we hear this ferocious crash of a noise outside. I must've jumped 3 feet in the air and we headed off to check on the kids. They were fine. Scott headed outside to see what the heck was going on. He didn't see anything but I'm sure it was the aliens from Signs landing on our roof. A few more events like these and this baby will be falling out on her own! I'm sure before we sleep tonight we will triple check the locks and hold each other tight throughout the night!
37 Weeks
Woah Baby!
Actually, it's too big to fit in a close up now, lets try it this way...
What I now see when I look down...
If you click here, you can compare me at 28 weeks when I was wearing the exact same outfit, cause these pants (which are NOT maternity) are super comfy.
I've been given the official "ok" it's safe to have the baby any day. Although going early has never been my experience. My list is almost completely checked off, I've toured the hospital and my bag is packed. If the baby came today, we'd be ready for her. Now I just must be to be able to tap into that patience that I have hiding deep down inside me.
A little Bit of My Easter
Eggs, Eggs, and more Eggs
Sigh, I am still the only girl in this house full of boys and so I have to endure Easter Eggs like these...
Oh how I DO LOVE MY BOYS
