Let’s play good news/bad news. Round One. The good news: At one week late, baby “Pat” is doing grand. She passed her first post-due BPP and NST with flying colors, and doesn’t appear to be unduly large. The bad news: At one week late, baby Pat does not appear to be going anywhere. She’s so … More Not That Kind of News
We are at EDD +4 today. Surprisingly, my calm increases as the days pass, as the inevitability of little Pat’s birth draws comfortingly closer, and as pre-labor progresses at its own impossibly slow rate. I think, with N, I just didn’t have time to get this uncomfortable. She was breech until 39 weeks, so I … More Progress, Slow but Sure
I’m writing this post on Wednesday and scheduling it to go off on Thursday, as I have a one-post-a-day policy, but I don’t know when I’ll have time to finish this one. So I might be in labor right now while you read this. Or not! Or in a quantum state of both! Schroedinger labor! Anyway. … More Fine, I Give Up
It’s the feast of the Annunciation today. I’m still pregnant, though who knows if I will still be pregnant by the end of the day. Yesterday, our due date, came and went without much fanfare. I did find out I’ve been accepted as a postulant for ordination in the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh – a … More Still Spinning My Wheels – Proverbially and Figuratively
Less than twenty-four hours after the last count, the new shawl design was cast off and blocking. (And two awesome test knitters are ripping through it, so an early-to-mid-April release is looking very good. I hope for sooner, but I also hope to be otherwise occupied very soon.) This meant I was down to two … More Don’t Get Me Started
Happy Pi Day, everyone! “Fallin’ in Love Chocolate Mousse Pie” “I Don’t Want Earl’s Baby Pie” (What? It’s true. I don’t want Earl’s baby.) Both recipes from here. I’ve wanted to try these since I first saw Waitress seven years ago. In reality, the experience of both pies was somewhat marred by their both having … More 3.14.15
We’ve made it to thirty-eight weeks today. I have reached the point at which, when everyone asks me how I feel, the short answer is not “I feel fine;” it’s “I feel really really pregnant.” I sleep badly most nights, I have so much relaxin in my system that my joints are all falling apart, … More Come on, Baby
Lent should really be a time for moral inventory, for an “examination of conscience,” as has ever and anon been called in spiritual circles. I have had ample prompting to so examine myself, not because I have been incredibly diligent with my Lenten disciplines (I haven’t), but because God is letting life do that for … More Moral-esque Inventory
My epic colorwork blanket has been done! Actually, it’s been done for nearly six weeks! I finished it just a day or two before we shipped out to Iqaluit. I took the time to snap these few pictures, thinking I’d blog about it while we were gone (ha!). Then I thought I’d blog about it … More Color Me Done
Since my last post about the gluten-free experiment, I have come to a point that I am no longer gluten-free, really at all. I had intentionally mainstreamed my diet, or at least been prepared to mostly mainstream it, so that on our epic trip to the Diocese of the Arctic, I could eat whatever was … More Mainstreamed: The End of the Gluten-Free Experiment
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