September 28th -

Well, here I sit uncomfortably in my school-issue desk chair - way too low, btw, and I'm a short person - and take my lunch break. Well actually, my whole day is a break. I just have to work during it. :-) I teach one morning class and one afternoon class on Fridays, and unless I have Kindergarten (1/3 of the year) or a Related Arts class (much less likely) THAT is my Friday. Sweet, huh?

Hey, I can't complain. I'm really start to feel this whole pregnant thing. The achey back, the achey everything else which combined about equal the ache of the bach, the baby kicking the crap out of the waist of my pre-pregnancy jeans (yes I still wear them, half unbuttoned, with a long shirt, and it's not THAT bad. Every time I wear them I swear it's the last time, though.) And dear GOD am I hungry. And sleepy. Slightly sweaty and swollen. All that good stuff. But other than that, feeling pretty good, and that's actually saying something. Oh, and FREAKIN' STARVING CONSTANTLY. Like, I could eat Thanksgiving and be hungry an hour later. It's sick.


We're learning all about these happy goings-on lately. We started prenatal (childbirth) classes on Wednesday. It was really cool! The first night we talked about pregnancy aches, pains, and other woes (I deserve my own bathroom key at work, damn it!) and what we can do get some relief from some of them. And which ones are pretty much going to make our dear little lives suck for the next 2 months. There are 20 couples, it's a big class. But get this - we are the ONLY confirmed girl parents! There were 3 or 4 couples who don't know the sex, but the other 15 of them or so did, and ALL were boys. Freaky, no? I feel all special and pink!

We heard about the course and what we'll do each night (4 nights total), and then we did some early labor breathing exercises. I happily laid against Bob's chest and he leaned up against the wall, and everybody, moms and dads, practiced these breathing techniques that you use to keep yourself calm and loose during a contraction. I was afraid of it turning into a fruity "picture your happy place and take no pain medications" kind of thing, but the instructor was quite open to many methods of getting through labor. She's had 8 kids and been a delivery nurse for years, she'd know, right? Like her alot, she seems very open to all your choices (Suffer through it or "have the epidural waiting in the parking lot"? Breast of bottle feed? Find out the sex early or not? She passed no judgement.)

That was Wednesday night. We've just been plugging through the weeks of school and since last weekend was NO weekend at all (more stressful and strenuous than a work week, for me) we've been living for this coming weekend. I do still say that I feel "great" or "fine", and then people always say, "You must be doing great, you look fantastic/great/so pretty/glowy" and that usually makes me feel perky enough to keep on truckin'. And I do mean truckin', cause my physical form readily reminds me in many ways of a Mac truck . Honk honk! Every day I kind of have a little harder time getting out of bed (both from sleepiness and cause moving isn't as effortless as it used to be - OW!). And every day I get go-to-bed-now tired a little earlier. Today apparently that time is going to be NOON...

We're going to Peter's tonight - YAY!!!! and doing the grocery shopping, and then tomorrow we're having one last Mommy & Daddy's Day Out. We're heading to PA, to LVC's Homecoming - excuse me, Oktoberfest - maybe meeting up with some friends, maybe happily coupling it. We'll go to the game, see all the new buildings that have popped up since we graduated, and grab dinner somewhere at one of our old college-favorite restaurants.

We're not technically supposed to do a lot of travel in the last trimester, but we're not FLYING or anything. And besides, we're 15 minutes from Hershey Med. You couldn't pick a better children's hospital. ;-)

So that's what's up in Meggie Land lately. I DID get my shower thank-you's bought, written, addressed, stamped, and here they sit on my desk. I' d have loved to get them out before a week after the shower, cause I'm an over-achiever, but I don't see that quite happening. Maybe they'll get them by Monday.

Now I'm going to go eat my lunch and get a bit more work done around here...hmmm I wonder what needs done?

It'll find me, for sure. Happy weekend!!!