Monday, May 16, 2011

MIA Mommy

I fear the last oh...month or two has been some unfortunate foreshadowing of my ability to maintain this blog once Baby K comes along. The thing is, if I skip even one little thing, then I feel like I can't add an update until I catch up...and the longer I wait, the more intimidating it gets. So here's the super quick low-down on what you missed since the last real entries...

  • I had a horrible pain in my side and a nurse was worried it was kidney related and sent me to the ER. It wasn't kidney related so they sent me home. 
  • The next afternoon, I awoke from a nap literally unable to move without sobbing at the pain. And I was not entirely dressed. I had to call Michael and have him come home and help me get dressed and back to the ER, where we spent 7 hours doing all kinds of tests. During which, three different nurses couldn't find baby's heartbeat. Which would have been scary except that just when I was getting really nervous, baby decided to kick the little doppler thingie the nurse was using. I'm pretty sure he was mocking her.
  • I was out of work the rest of that week and luckily the pain started easing up on day three or so. I had to miss a huge event at work which was probably a good lesson for me that the world does still move even if I am confined to the couch. Unfortunately, I felt like I should be more productive with my time off, but I really couldn't do much of anything.
  • This led to the end of my exercising streak, which had been going really well. According to my book, this will have an ill effect on baby's brain development. But I maintain that it will probably result in better balance anyway. There's such a thing as too smart, you know.
  • Michael and I went on an amazing Babymoon/Anniversary weekend at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Boston, which was ridiculously posh. I mean, when I got up to the room, there was a man waiting at the door with decaf tea for me (because I was preggo!) and inside was a Congratulations cake in honor of both anniversary and baby. Sweet. The weekend also included fishing (for Michael) and a chocolate truffle making workshop with Kate (for me) and a motherhood massage (me again) and lots of amazing food. Oh, and the most lovely breakfast in bed ever. Really.
  • Two weeks later was my baby shower, which was amazing. Kate, Gina, and Linda planned it for Finale (a local desserterie) and there were mad libs and bath salts involved, so you know it was amazing. I got to have dinner and pedicures with Sammy and Linda the night before, and then have so many of my favorite people in one place for the actual shower on Saturday. I felt very spoiled. My mom was sick and couldn't make it, which was sad, but I felt lucky to be surrounded by so many people who are so excited for Michael and Baby and I. =)
  • Finally, we are making some progress on the nursery, with a little help from our friends. Thanks to Erin for putting together the crib and dresser and Gina for helping me reposition wall decals a million times! The room is really taking shape and makes me irrationally happy.
Okay, there you go. We're all caught up and I have no excuse not to get back in the swing of things with this blog!

xoxo

Monday, May 9, 2011

Mother's Day Rap

I'm not really counting this year as my "first mother's day" since little baby k has yet to be born, but even so, I wasn't having a super good day. I was under the weather, very hormonal, and a little bit lonely so I decided to take myself to the movies to see if I could snap myself out of it. That's usually a surefire trick, but it didn't work, so I headed homeward and crawled into bed for a long nap. I texted Michael to let him know I didn't feel up to going out to dinner after all, and I passed out for over two hours. When I woke up, I was feeling slightly better. I came into the kitchen to find a beautiful bouquet of flowers and a first mother's day card, complete with a little rap he wrote for me, which included the following verse:
Our little pea
gots no idea
just yet
Just how groovy
his momma truly is,
I bet.
But he gon' find out
You're da mommy rock star,
Best ever,
near or far.
In closing,
one more thing to say:
Wicked Happy
Almost
Mother's Day! 
Now how could I not be cheered up by that?!?!

But that wasn't all he had in store...he also made me steak and lobster roll dinner!


And then, we had to go to dorm meeting. I wasn't looking forward to it, but two of the girls gave me a rose for Mother's Day (for being their dorm mother) and another one of the girls gave me this little hat and bootie set she made for Baby K:


 So, in the end, it turned out to be a better day than expected. Yay Michael and dorm girls. =)