June 10, 2009
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Wednesday morning, 39 weeks & 1 day
Good morning all. I hope this finds you all doing well. It’s 9:00 here and I have only been up for about 20 minutes.
Night before last I baked a bunch of chocolate chip cookies. You know this already. After that I got a bath and then worked on Lillie’s baby book. I transferred my letter to her on to the paper I had selected at Hobby Lobby and then arranged the book to make room for some things I wanted to add. I also added some additional pages so that I don’t have to take the book apart every time I want to add something to it. I finished that up sometime before midnight. I’m guessing I was asleep by 1:00. I slept well. The usual midnight bathroom runs, but otherwise I slept good.
I got up yesterday morning and went about my normal routine. Dogs out to potty, coffee on to drip, dogs in and fed, cup of coffee poured then parked on the couch and try to wake up. I woke up feeling wide awake… and anxious. I blogged about that already though. I balanced the check book and played around online. I milled around the house and just tried to keep things quiet so Tancy could sleep as long as possible. Nights are tough for both of us for different reasons. Sitting quietly in the house all day doesn’t exactly make for a wonderful day for me. She’s been a little less than thrilled about me being home without her at night… but she knows that I am ok. I think she just really wants to be here to be sure of that for herself, in case I need something.
So yesterday was uneventful. Tancy got up around 1:00 and had coffee. We chatted and caught up on each others nights.I told her that I had the dough for her wafer cookies all mixed up and would make them when she went to work. That made her very happy. She got her bath and got dressed, I started dinner. I had taken out a flank steak and was going to make it like my Paw-Paw Leo used to make it. I also decided that broccoli and cauliflower was going to go with it. We are talking about a 10 minute meal…. and some kind of yummy! So I set about that while on the phone with Mom. We had a good chat and before I knew it, dinner was ready. It was so good. I always love flank steak and it brings back some pretty vivid memories of my Paw-Paw in the “big house” when I was a kid.
I cleaned up the kitchen after we ate and we just settled back down on the couch and soaked up the time we had together till she had to go to work. I really felt a sense of dread at the thought of her leaving. I don’t know why… I did my best to keep that to myself, but I am sure in some ways she knew it. I think she was feeling it too. Before long it was time for her to go and that was that.
I immediately set about baking the wafer cookies. I made 118 individual cookies in all. They only bake for 8 minutes, so it was done in no time flat… the part where I put them in the oven at least. LOL. I sat down for a while once I had cleaned the kitchen up. I chatted on facebook with my Pops and Aunt Jan. That was a blast. Entertained me to no end! Not long after we all got off line I went into the kitchen and made sandwiches out of the individual cookies. Red icing, as close as I could get to scarlet. 59 bite sized wafer cookie sandwiches. I had two of them just to make sure they were good. They were!
After that I decided to get a bath with my new lavender goats milk soap. See if that might help me to calm down a bit and get some rest. At 9:45 I was getting in the tub. I was out by 10:00 and in bed. I just laid there and watched some junk TV and tried to relax. I started to hurt some, differently than I had been hurting but it felt like muscles low in my pelvis stretching more than anything. By 11:30 or so I was making my best attempt at sleep. I must have been tired too because I woke up at 1:30 for a bathroom break. I was up about every 2 – 2.5 hours all night long. But I slept good.
This morning I was up around 8:40. I wanted to just lay there in bed, but the dogs were getting rambunctious, so I got up to prevent them from waking Tancy. We went through our usual paces… just another morning.
I have decided that Lillie isn’t coming until the 18th when they induce. I partially believe this and partially hope that it isn’t so. I don’t want to be induced. I would just rather things happen on their own. But right now I feel sure that she’s found a hand hold of so sort in there and has decided not to come out. LOL. Wondering every day, yesterday specifically, is too much. So, I tell myself that it’ll be the 18th.
Alright kids. I don’t have much else to say today. I need to get some more posts ready to send to Maw-Maw before Lillie does come. I know she enjoys reading my posts… I just have to give them a quick look over first to make sure I haven’t used any vulgarities. LOL. I would not be happy to send something inappropriate to her.
I hope that everyone has a great day today. It’s hump day!!
Love to all!
