A post to push down posts

I like to read other people's blogs. To get to these blogs conveniently and only when there is something new to read, I have them listed on the left hand side under "blogs I follow", which means I am frequently visiting my own blog page and getting a good eye full of what you all see every time you check in.

Since my last post, the 33 1/2 week update, I have gotten ridiculously sick of looking at my perfectly posed self. I don't know how you people do it! Swollen face, awkward pants that don’t fit well with the sneakers (huge pet peave. I don't mind comfy tennies, but not at the expense of looking slightly  normal! I feel as though these jeans are an epic fail. Skinny maternity jeans, you win hands down), cheesy smile (I find with a swollen face, there is no such thing as noncheesy smile...they all look weird) <insert 20 more things I don’t like about myself>

And now to top it off, my lovely blog isn’t saving. So all of this may or may not be for nothing.


What else, what else. Things I'm looking forward to:

• Running, running, and more running! I miss it. Please let me be able to figure out a way to get back into without failing miserably right away
• Real spring/summery weather. Enough of this post-winter garbage! It is cold, sporadic, windy always and I am ready for some serious window opening and walk taking
• Having my first experience with labor be over
• The showers that my friends and family are throwing!
• Normal sized feet
• Last but not least... a baby girl that will be all ours, that was created by us (well, really God), and entrusted to us to raise and develop and protect... no small task!

Tonight is dinner with the in-laws... Tuesday night tradition that has consisted of Mike's mom cooking, serving, and cleaning up while I either sit down (Tuesdays I stand... a lot) or sleep on their "not made for sleeping on" couch, exhausted from standing, eating, and generally just living. Maybe someday I'll be that lovely daughter-in-law that is helpful and productive and a joy to be around... give me 6 weeks or so! Most of the time, while I'm sleeping, the rest of the family is playing a game and being all "family-like"... I guess thats what I get (being discluded) since I can't keep my eyes open even a little bit as soon as the meal is finished.

And tomorrow - Tutti Frutti with my dear friend Katie after only a half day of work!! Oh the joys of half days! I'm sure I'll be less than productive, it's kind of my thing these days, but I'll enjoy it in a "full of guilt my husband works so hard and I hardly do anything" sort of way. Its not the truth, I just sometimes feel that way. Darn him for being so workaholic-like. I know I carry this trait too...where is it these days??