Today is 37 weeks, which is, in some official sense, full term. Not that Moose is ready for prime time, but it's still another nice milestone.
Today also marks the start of spring-term classes at my college, and it feels wonderfully decadent to not be teaching. I'm working, but with the same flexibility of intercession. Today, for example, I didn't get up early enough to guarantee myself a good parking spot on campus (plus it's freakin' cold out), so I decided to stay home. And since I'm home, I can sit around in my yoga pants.
Multiple times a day, I shake my head and think about how absurdly fortunate I am in many ways. Not that I don't whine about my achy pelvic ligaments (they really hurt!) or heave a weary sigh when I have to pick something up off the floor. Most of the time, though, I am in gratitude-mode. For example, having lived really close too the bone in the past, it still seems like a minor miracle that I can now go to the grocery store and just grab whatever I think we'll eat without thinking about the mounting total. I feel the privilege of that more keenly these days, even though it's been a good 8 years since I've had to watch every penny.
How did I get so lucky?
Congratulations on full term!!! It is a really nice milestone, although it introduces a whole new level of impatience (or it did for me anyways).
ReplyDeleteGlad to read your post. Made my day.
ReplyDeleteWowza what an amazing milestone!!! Hugest congrats on full term. That. Is. AWESOME. xoxo
ReplyDeleteFull term!! Congratulations :) I wake up every day and am first thankful I am pregnant and second tell myself that I can make it to the exact place you are today! Such an incredible milestone!!
ReplyDeleteYAY for full term!! YAY!
ReplyDeletegreat news, wishing you well in home stretch. yay for being full term.
ReplyDeleteYou are sooo close to meeting your Moose! So happy for you, Amy!
ReplyDeleteAnd gratitude mode ROCKS! :)
Wowie, full term! This must be an amazing time.
ReplyDeleteAnd heck yeah on not going to campus. I certainly look forward to a decadent semester of teaching release in the fall!
This sounds like an awesome place to be in!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on being full-term, babe.
Full term! I cannot wait for Moose's arrival (in a few weeks, of course).
ReplyDeleteCongrats on being full term! So jealous you got to work from home in yoga pants! The timing of Moose's arrival and the semester starting seems perfect! I'm glad you are able to take it easy during these last few weeks!
ReplyDeleteANY day now you will be holding that "little" man in your arms! Woo Hoo! :-)
ReplyDeleteCongrats on reaching full term!
ReplyDeleteYAY for full term! Another amazing milestone!! I just love your perspective and gratitude about everything. BTW, I am already groaning when picking something up and I am only 11 weeks! I think you are surely entitled!!
ReplyDeleteGlad you are here. And I think it's the people who feel that gratitude, the ones who have taken nothing for granted, who are the ones that make the most thoughtful and mindful parents (and it is clear that you and your partner will).
ReplyDeleteCongrats on full term! I feel you on the gratitude!
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