still here

I know I’ve spent most of my blogging attention on the photoblog (which you should totally check out, if only to click on the links to other people’s 365 projects.  They are so awesome!) but I will still post here also.  Today I finally took down our Christmas tree and am truly sad about it.  We have actually gotten some winter-like weather here in the past 2 weeks and I was just starting to get in the Christmas spirit!  I really should get some kind of indoor plant to decorate for each holiday, but let’s not kid ourselves… it would surely die under my care.

Here’s Maria, just being her normal sweet self. 

super-fun thursday

Most of you’ve heard from me or from FB already, but if you haven’t, I was in a wreck Thursday night. I’m physically mostly fine – soreness and one tender spot on my left shoulder where I hit the door frame. Most of my damage is psychological… I’m really still not all together yet. I relive the crash over and over all day and night, especially when I close my eyes. I did just come back from my first post-accident drive and other than my palms sweating and my shoulders being up to my ears with tension, I seem to be ok. I went to see the car and took photos, and I came home through the intersection where it happened, albeit coming from a different direction. I’m sure there’s going to be many, many headaches involved with the fallout from all of this, and I’ll fill you all in later about that. For now, I present my (likely totaled) car, from which I walked away (physically) unscathed. God is Good.

two score minus 2

Well, it's Labor Day. I wish it were labor day, to be honest. Two nights in a row I've had several contractions over a few hours - not ever closer than 20 minutes apart, but still enough to get my hopes us that this was it. But then I'd go lay down thinking I should rest in between cause, duh, who knows when I'll ever get rest again... but then they'd stop completely. Bummer. Doula Robyn suggested yesterday that I'm probably dilating more and that if I haven't progressed further by Tuesday's OB appointment that the exam done then might be what pushes me over the edge. We shall see!

Even so, we've had a mostly lovely morning here in casa de Henry - he let us sleep in till 8, then we had fun making faces in bed for a while. I got up and decided to make pancakes, Timon wanted to mow the lawn before it got too hot, and we each did our thing. Henry ate 4 pancakes and some melon and 2 (small) cups of OJ, all while getting a treat of PBS kids on tv. Then after I ate, cleaned up the kitchen and Henry was dressed, he wanted to color. Check this out:

I think it's some of his best work yet. He decided all the colors and placement. Right now he's rocking out to U2 using Friend as a guitar. Just a refresher for those of you not familiar with Friend, Henry's loyal and constant companion since age 2 months:

Our only disappointment of the morning has been when Timon decided to put together the crib we bought off a Craigslist posting yesterday. Not only is there hardware missing (which is why we needed to get a new crib in the first place - we've lost the hardware to the crib we used with Henry which is very sad since it was a gift from two people we love very much and it's a gorgeous crib) but there are actual wooden parts missing, too. So we've put in a phone call to the person to whom we paid $50 to and hopefully return it - she did say that if we weren't able to put it together that she'd give us our money back. I hope she'll honor that. Before you all get preachy and say, but DUH, don't buy anything without being assured of having all the parts first! let me just say it looked like everything was there and accounted for.

SO, our plans for the rest of the day: leftover lasagna for lunch, naptime, maybe a little movie time for Henry if he obeys at lunch and nap, rest, relaxation, get our $$ back and return the crib, meatloaf for dinner, and maybe a real live grown-up movie for the adults. And, yes, if contractions began in earnest, I would not complain. She's got a little less than 12 hours to make this a very appropriately named holiday.