Ninth Month Musings

Due Day is coming to a close...and it makes me think back all the way to March of this year, when I first confirmed that I was (amazingly) pregnant (and on my birthday no less!). What a gift this pregnancy has been. Six years of hoping ... praying ... and suddenly, fast-forward to November and I'm counting down the days (hours?) when we'll all get to meet this precious and much anticipated addition to our family.

We spent the past nine months staying extremely busy -- this pregnancy really didn't slow me down at all until the past couple weeks. We finally 'finished' the back-yard and the Garden House turned out perfectly.

The year was full of concerts (seven total! including Eddie Vedder at the Orpheum, which was incredible) and performances (saw Wicked -- awesome, and also caught a Cirque show), camping in Michigan (in a tent, in the POURING rain, on a DEFLATED air mattress - we made it through one night and packed it in...sorry Paul), and Bristol Motor Speedway for the Food City and Sharpie 500 (yes, we did our best to fit in, and I think we did an okay job -- we just pretended we were at a Harley rally :-) ).

So we've drug our little one around to all sorts of noisy cultural events and hope it's provided her with a full neurological cocktail of positive stimulation. She sure is active in the womb...maybe we over did it (?!)