I'm around about 12 weeks along now. The bean currently residing in my uterus is about 2 and a half inches long. I've been reading a lot of birth stories on the internet and feeling like crying while I'm doing it. This is not a Oh-my-god-birth-is-terrifying-what-have-I-gotten-myself-into type of crying or wanting to cry. It's a birth is beautiful type of wanting to cry. I'm very much looking forward to this birth. I'm looking forward to really, truly fully experiencing a birth myself instead of walking into a hospital and handing over the experience to the professionals. I didn't realize to what extent I had done so before until I started to try to really remember and picture those births in my mind. I discovered that my memories were actually quite fragmented and hazy and that even though my face was like two feet away from where the action was going on, all my memories are like I was further back and watching from more of a distance.
In other news, we are totally broke at the moment. We are at least (mostly) caught up on the bills (you know, so that nobody is going to turn anything off in the next few hours due to non-payment), but other than that, we are destitute. As is sometimes the case when we have absolutely no money, a check came for me in the mail today. It was from the City of Las Vegas Leisure Services and before I opened it, I had no idea what it could possibly be. Turns out it was some credit left over from a time that I had Harper signed up for a class and they canceled it and I changed her over to a different, albeit cheaper class. I was supposed to use it towards a future class purchase, but I had forgotten about it. The check was for $5.00. I said, "Thank you, Fate!" but then I grumbled a little bit under my breath because, um..... $5.00? I really shouldn't whine though, or Fate will surely not send me anymore checks.
I need to get rid of my Currently Reading thing on my sidebar. I never update and frequently finish reading a book before I even get around to thinking about putting it on the list. Plus, allconsuming seems to not want to have a blank space and leaves the last thing you had active on the list even if you already finished it. Speaking of reading, I read Meet Kirsten, an American Girls book, to Saren yesterday and today and she enjoyed it very much. We have a few other of these books, but not the next one in the Kirsten series, no now we have to wait to go on with it.
Saturday, July 17, 2004
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Well, it's only been 3 weeks since my last entry....
...that's not too terrible, is it?
I've been feeling very drawn into myself lately, I think mostly due to feeling sick and tired all the time. But the past few days have been somewhat better, nausea-related anyway. I don't feel perfect, but I do feel better than I had been feeling. Morning sickness usually does get better at about this time in a pregnancy, but I really don't think I had it this bad with the girls, so I was almost afraid it would never go away.
Whilst I was gone, the Harper turned 4. This morning she woke up early and was lying in bed with me, giggling, and I was just amazed at how big she's getting while still being so darn small! I think I tend to think of Harper as smaller than she is and Saren as bigger just because the one is younger and the other is older. That's probably not a fair way to look at them at all, but my brain is stubborn. We went to the park and out to dinner with my dad on Harper's birthday. It was pretty low-key. We got her a wooden dollhouse and some Dora-related items. She was happy.
We really haven't done much lately. We need to take the girls Out. The last thing we did was a trip to the children's museum with the unschooling group. Then today I found out that Saren's friend's family (also in the unschooling group) is going to Australia and they might not be coming back. This is like Saren's favorite friend. Figures.
Oh yeah. And I added a monkeytastic ticker.
Edited to add: I wrote this a couple of days ago, but blogger said "There were errors," when I tried to publish. I was very discouraged and thought that I would never ever blog again, but I changed my mind today and was surprised to see that my entry was still here, just not published! Hooray!
I've been feeling very drawn into myself lately, I think mostly due to feeling sick and tired all the time. But the past few days have been somewhat better, nausea-related anyway. I don't feel perfect, but I do feel better than I had been feeling. Morning sickness usually does get better at about this time in a pregnancy, but I really don't think I had it this bad with the girls, so I was almost afraid it would never go away.
Whilst I was gone, the Harper turned 4. This morning she woke up early and was lying in bed with me, giggling, and I was just amazed at how big she's getting while still being so darn small! I think I tend to think of Harper as smaller than she is and Saren as bigger just because the one is younger and the other is older. That's probably not a fair way to look at them at all, but my brain is stubborn. We went to the park and out to dinner with my dad on Harper's birthday. It was pretty low-key. We got her a wooden dollhouse and some Dora-related items. She was happy.
We really haven't done much lately. We need to take the girls Out. The last thing we did was a trip to the children's museum with the unschooling group. Then today I found out that Saren's friend's family (also in the unschooling group) is going to Australia and they might not be coming back. This is like Saren's favorite friend. Figures.
Oh yeah. And I added a monkeytastic ticker.
Edited to add: I wrote this a couple of days ago, but blogger said "There were errors," when I tried to publish. I was very discouraged and thought that I would never ever blog again, but I changed my mind today and was surprised to see that my entry was still here, just not published! Hooray!
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