Sunday, June 25, 2006
And I'm Hooked
I have spent the entire day watching a marathon of Footballer's Wives on BBC America. Besides the gorgeous men with accents, it's just fun. And the preview cracks me up. You see all the drama coming up in the next episode, then a line of naked men holding soccer balls in front of their goods. The camera pans down and the soccer balls drop and a man with a very deep voice says, "Footballer's Wives..." It's great.
I am between knitting projects and can't find something to do. Because of this, today I started my fourth book this week. I'm always a reader, but knitting takes up time so that I read, oh, maybe one book a week. This week saw the completion of:
The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
and
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
and the start of
Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
There is an all new episode of Footballer's Wives on tonight. I think I'll stay up for that and then go to bed with my book, hoping for contractions to start.
I have spent the entire day watching a marathon of Footballer's Wives on BBC America. Besides the gorgeous men with accents, it's just fun. And the preview cracks me up. You see all the drama coming up in the next episode, then a line of naked men holding soccer balls in front of their goods. The camera pans down and the soccer balls drop and a man with a very deep voice says, "Footballer's Wives..." It's great.
I am between knitting projects and can't find something to do. Because of this, today I started my fourth book this week. I'm always a reader, but knitting takes up time so that I read, oh, maybe one book a week. This week saw the completion of:
The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
and
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
and the start of
Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
There is an all new episode of Footballer's Wives on tonight. I think I'll stay up for that and then go to bed with my book, hoping for contractions to start.
Friday, June 23, 2006
And She Slept
Finally. Last night I fell asleep before 10:00 and woke up at 8:30 this morning. Granted, there was the hourly trip to the bathroom, but I always fell (fairly) promptly back to sleep. I haven't had a good night's sleep in weeks! It only takes one. I feel like a new woman! I have enough energy to, say, have a baby!
We keep trying to trick fate into giving us the baby. We've been hope hope hoping to go into labor. On Tuesday we were having company and so didn't want to have the baby. We were sure we would have him on Tuesday because we didn't want to. But we didn't. Yesterday I changed the sheets on our bed. I don't usually do that on Thursday but I was confused yesterday morning and thought it was Friday. I thought that would be like washing the car and then it rains that afternoon. I thought surely if I put on nice clean sheets my water would break that night. But it didn't.
I really don't think it's fair that we don't know when Oliver is going to arrive. It's cruel. I need to be able to plan around these things! Kevin is more excited that I've ever seen him about anything and that makes me happy.
Finally. Last night I fell asleep before 10:00 and woke up at 8:30 this morning. Granted, there was the hourly trip to the bathroom, but I always fell (fairly) promptly back to sleep. I haven't had a good night's sleep in weeks! It only takes one. I feel like a new woman! I have enough energy to, say, have a baby!
We keep trying to trick fate into giving us the baby. We've been hope hope hoping to go into labor. On Tuesday we were having company and so didn't want to have the baby. We were sure we would have him on Tuesday because we didn't want to. But we didn't. Yesterday I changed the sheets on our bed. I don't usually do that on Thursday but I was confused yesterday morning and thought it was Friday. I thought that would be like washing the car and then it rains that afternoon. I thought surely if I put on nice clean sheets my water would break that night. But it didn't.
I really don't think it's fair that we don't know when Oliver is going to arrive. It's cruel. I need to be able to plan around these things! Kevin is more excited that I've ever seen him about anything and that makes me happy.
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
I'm reading this book by Zac Unger. It's called "Working Fire: The Making of an Accidental Fireman." I'm not usually one to read and enjoy non-fiction. And it's probably true that if Kevin wasn't a firefighter I wouldn't be reading and enjoying this one. But hearing Kevin's stories of the fire academy and the fire station antics and reading this book seem to be almost one and the same. It's smart, funny, witty, and compelling. Unger tells the story of himself as an unlikely firefighter and how much he loves his job.
During the course of the book, Unger marries the woman he has been dating since shortly before he started the fire academy. She is becoming a fireman's wife and asked him for the same promise that I asked of Kevin...that he wouldn't die in a fire and leave me. Unger writes:
...I knew that there was only one answer for her impossible question. And I knew also that every other fireman's wife had asked for the same promise at some point and that every fireman had answered as I would, not just to say it but because he truly believed he was right. And so I said to her, "I promise you...I'll never leave you," because what else can a fireman possibly say to his wife?
It's true. I don't dwell on it but of course I am scared every time Kevin goes to work. It's a scary job. But it's important and he loves it. And I love him. And that's it.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Ready for Baby (in pictures)
This is Oliver's room. It's done!
This is what our little family looks like now.
We're wondering how our first two babies are going
to react to the real thing.
Look out, Belly! This is us at a nervous 37 weeks.
It's not long now, my little smurfs!
Monday, June 12, 2006
Just Call Me Amber
Saturday morning found me wide awake at 4:00 am. That is a truly ridiculous time to be awake. I lay there fighting it until about 5:00 and then I finally got up. And what did I do with my time? I baked a pie crust from scratch. That's right. I baked a pie crust at 5:00 in the morning. All the while I avoided any reflective surfaces in the kitchen for fear I'd see my grandmother's face staring back at me. My whole life I've wondered what could possess my grandma and my mom to get up at such crazy early hours and do the laundry, made dessert for later that night, bake bread, clean the house, empty the dishwasher, etc... Now, to my dismay, I think I understand. You have to do something. And why aren't men afflicted with this? Kevin didn't even know that I had left the bed! He slept until 9:00 and still thought he was getting up early! Ugh!
(And Amber is my dear grandma, in case anyone was confused by the title.)
Saturday morning found me wide awake at 4:00 am. That is a truly ridiculous time to be awake. I lay there fighting it until about 5:00 and then I finally got up. And what did I do with my time? I baked a pie crust from scratch. That's right. I baked a pie crust at 5:00 in the morning. All the while I avoided any reflective surfaces in the kitchen for fear I'd see my grandmother's face staring back at me. My whole life I've wondered what could possess my grandma and my mom to get up at such crazy early hours and do the laundry, made dessert for later that night, bake bread, clean the house, empty the dishwasher, etc... Now, to my dismay, I think I understand. You have to do something. And why aren't men afflicted with this? Kevin didn't even know that I had left the bed! He slept until 9:00 and still thought he was getting up early! Ugh!
(And Amber is my dear grandma, in case anyone was confused by the title.)
