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Really sweet

I really love these earrings by designer AnandaKhalsa on Etsy.com. She has a bunch of other items that are in the same series with the little birds and I love all of it. Yay for cute little birds and good design.

Apr 27, 2009, 3:01 PM | Comments (0)

Old papers

Hi friends, I have been busy momming it up lately. Hello again. I would like to share a poem I found in an amongst my papers that I took the time to copy out with an actual pencil. Using real paper and pencil is so 2000, and yes that was the year that I transcribed it.
It is Part 1 of Jorge Luis Borges "Two English Poems"

The useless dawn finds me in a deserted street-
corner; I have outlived the night.
Nights are proud waves; darkblue topheavy waves
laden with all the hues of deep spoil, laden with
things unlikely and desirable.
Nights have a habit of mysterious gifts and refusals,
of things half given away, half withheld,
of joys with a dark hemisphere. Nights act
that way, I tell you.
The surge, that night, left me the customary shreds
and odd ends: some hated friends to chat
with, music for dreams, and the smoking of
bitter ashes. The things my hungry heart
has no use for.
The big wave brought you.
Words, any words, your laughter; and you so lazily
and incessantly beautiful. We talked and you
have forgotten the words.
The shattering dawn finds me in a deserted street
of my city.
Your profile turned away, the sounds that go to
make your name, the lilt of your laughter:
these are the illustrious toys you have left me.
I turn them over in the dawn, I lose them, I find
them; I tell them to the few stray dogs and
to the few stray stars of the dawn.
Your dark rich life ...
I must get at you, somehow; I put away those
illustrious toys you have left me, I want your
hidden look, your real smile -- that lonely,
mocking smile your cool mirror knows.

Apr 19, 2009, 1:58 PM | Comments (0)

Due date

So I'm writing this while in labor, I'm not sure how well it will turn out because of the crushing contractions that are currently coming every 3 minutes.

Today was my due date, I had a Dr's appointment in the morning, got some fetal activity monitoring done during the time when the kid is usually least active... and thusly the dr was a little concerned about what she was seeing. So we went to the hospital for additional monitoring. That went much better because I had some food and the kid had some time to wake up. I agreed to allow my dr to order up some medicine called cervidil which apparently helps "ripen" the cervix, get you to dilate, and sometimes just encourage the onset of labor.

It is a relatively mild and more natural way to sometimes jump start a process that is almost ready to begin on its own. The only drawback is that you have to be IN the hospital for 12 hours while the medicine is given, and intermittently monitored to make sure everything is going alright. So I did this, starting at 12:30pm and I was surprised how fast time passed. By 9pm I had enjoyed the presidential debate, and was settling in for a double header of the Daily show and the Colbert Report (featuring my friend Opus! yay!). It was a nice evening, though no consistent contractions were happening or anything.

Then what seemed like out of nowhere, I started seeing that I was infact registering some contractions... about 8-10 minutes apart, but I hardly was noticing them. It was about 10pm when we noticed this... and around 12:30 I got checked, and sent home (where I wanted to be). Before I left the hospital I was having contractions about 6 to 8 minutes apart. Only now 1 hour later I'm up, writing this... and they are already only 3 minutes apart. As soon as I put my head to the pillow they just got so fast.

Who knows, maybe this means I'll be up all night in labor having a baby sometime soon... or maybe It'll end, and undoubtedly start up again tomorrow sometime... Either way... I am clearly having a baby. SOON.
YAAAAAy.

Holy crap these are strong contractions, its exciting to finally know what real ones feel like.

Time now: 1:48am on October 8th - 3 minutes apart.

We'll update tomorrow, I imagine.
Wish us luck, we promise we'll keep you posted on any noteworthy developments.

Oct 8, 2008, 1:50 AM | Comments (0)

Nope, not yet...

So I thought I'd be early. Why not, all the other women in the family had babies a bit early.. plus, this baby is going to be big and he'll run out of room, right? Naw... I guess not. He must be enjoying himself in there too much to come out just yet. My due date is in only 5 days, and I'm completely ready. Waiting around for labor to start is alright because I'm feeling pretty great still. I do find that at times my impatience and hormones make me feel grumpy though.

Last week I started going on walks, at least twice a day for awhile, up the hills around my house. Its the only time I can be sure to experience contractions, and I want more of those. I get the strongest ones at night so I walk long and slow for at least twenty minutes. I recently borrowed my sister's birth/exercise ball and now I'm using it as a chair. Hoping it will help the baby to drop down some more so we can get this going. I've been getting acupuncture treatments to hopefully help things along.

If you want to know when we have given birth, you can check here, or if you want up to the minute reports I assume Ryan will be using Twitter to make announcements from the hospital etc. Don't worry, when something happens we'll let you know...

Oct 2, 2008, 11:51 AM | Comments (0)

My Hubsand (Hub-sand)

No its not a typo, that's what I call him.

He calls me Wife, (pronounced Wii-Fey)

I love my hubsand. He takes good care of me.

He makes sure I eat balanced meals.

He positions my many pillows so I can rest comfortably.

He downloads our favorite shows so we can watch them in bed (Mad Men & Weeds, lately)

He asks me to make lists of tasks I need done so he can do them instead of me.

He talks to our baby in my tummy, and tells him to quit being a slacker and get a job (daddy is a funny man, baby, best to figure that out before you're born).... and that he loves him very much.

He cuddles our dog Alfie, and tucks him under a blanket on his special pillow every night when we go to bed.

He brings laughter and love to my life every day.

I can't wait to meet the baby we made together. Seeing Ryan with him, and holding him for the first time will surely be one of the greatest joys I have ever had in my life.

Sep 11, 2008, 2:19 PM | Comments (0)