even if you're not pregnant i'm pretty sure you will see the humor in this - this is from a 1976 list of what to eat when pregnant:

(a) Meat. One pound of read meat should be eaten every day of gestation. Quantity is more important than quality. It will be necessary to eat it between meals as well as at meals and cold meat, especially corned beef ( Read more... )

it's far too early. but even still. i am starting to get anxious.

i want this baby to bake as long as he or she needs to. but if that happens to be 38 weeks? i will not be upset.

just sayin'. :P

so much to do, only 6 weeks (or 4 weeks or 8 weeks :P) to get it done in. i'm not in freak-out mode yet, but i did have a brief flash of panic the other day. it's normal, i know, but man - i have been on such overdrive and still in sort of this disbelief that this is happening, that i couldn't really see the end game. even with the childbirth ( Read more... )

i've been trying to get the house in some semblance of order for a few weeks now. i'm going through rooms (or trying to when i have the energy, i'm starting to lose it again) and getting rid of things that have piled up for years and we haven't used, and organized things. the kitchen was a huge task, but one of my first. it's not done yet though, i ( Read more... )

baby shower was this weekend. it was awesome, but i'll get to that ( Read more... )

for chris mostly. he's a superstar. i mean, i did a lot too, but it was all sort of vain and for me. i haven't done that in a while though, so i'm really not all too guilty ( Read more... )

but i figure since a couple of people have already started guessing, i'll use this to track it :P skatured had this on her blog and i thought it was really useful for what it does.

if you want to guess what we're having and when, click on the big image below. you'll win just about zilch, but maybe i'll send the winner something special.


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*chris is home. thank goodness. i missed him something stupid. :)
*i am nearly done with ani_moore's happy hat. i picked a nice deep purply to match the coat you mentioned. i also bought a red since they're quick and i can make you another one. if not, i will probably make that for the raffle or somesuch ( Read more... )

i haven't had a vacation this long for quite a while. it's nice. calm before the storm, one could say ( Read more... )

it's funny what weight gain can sometimes look like :P i've gained about 15lbs to date with this pregnancy, and this is the difference:

me @ 12 weeks, 5-6lbs ago (i gained about 9 right away):


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