So Proud

I’m so proud of my little sister! She just had her beautiful baby on Sunday. And I’m so glad for my brother in law, who was such a great support for her. I’ve been thinking a lot about childbirth over the last 8 months, but having someone so close to me give birth changes my …

Baby at night

Baby is so great! He’s the adorablest. I had another dream about baby – may have been partly a waking dream – where his foot started poking out the top of my stomach, then it was TOTALLY poking out, and I could see it clearly and it was rolling back and forth across the top …

Last day

I can’t believe I can write this: this was my last day at work. For the forseeable future. For at least one year. How did that happen?! And what will life be like without work? I suppose I’ve had breaks from work before, but this one feels substantially different, new life phase different. All the …

Dreaming of baby

Last night my belly was kind of hurting – I think I’ve started to have Braxton-Hicks contractions, with my abdomen occasionally insanely heavy, out of breath, tight and sore. So maybe it was that, or worry, or just baby talking to me, but I went back to sleep to a dream of baby. In my …

11 Days

I can’t believe I have only 11 more days of work left. !! I can feel my pace picking up, as it usually does as I approach a deadline. It’s a quirk of mine that I like to have things finished, neat and tidy before going out to have fun or move on to something …

14 Days

I can’t believe that there are only 14 days of work left before I go on mat leave!! For a while there it was still months in the future. Then magically time moved on, I planned some vacation days, I ended up scheduling the leave to start a week earlier than planned … wow, I …