Fast Running Mommy

I actually felt like going more but just ran out of time. Maybe I'll go do another .5 ..it just takes me sooo long to run any distance. I think I'm starting to relax...last week I was in a panic that the baby would come. Now I feel like I've gotten things taken care of and I can let him come when he's ready. I actually finished a HUGE scrapbooking project I started at the beginning of the summer. I wanted all the scrapbooks to be caught up before Willy Baby comes and so I wouldn't feel inclined to not do anything for him. Well, I can officially say after hours of work to find photos( the worst years were the ones I used my digital video camera as our normal camera...that took forever and the quality was terrible...and I didn't really save that much money...maybe 60 dollars).....I am done and caught up!!!! Now I just have to get in a mode where I print off photos every month or two and scrapbook a few pages for each kid every once in awhile. I like putting most of them in an album but I do want to give each child a scrapbook when they leave home that has some special pages and shows them a glimpse of their childhood.

I felt like going 2 today ...so I did. I keep waking up each morning with the first thought of my day being, "I'm going to be pregnant forever!!"

I have to tell about the cool thing I did yesterday. I have always wanted a beautiful blessing outfit for our kids but never been in the mood to pay $50 or more for one.

So...I got this great idea..why not make my own? I didn't want it to be a long drawn out project like some of the things I try...maybe I won't be pregnant forever and I'll actually have my baby one of these days. Anyway..yesterday I did it!!! I made a blessing outfit and I'm almost done. I whipped it up in one afternoon!! I went on-line and got a few ideas for what boy's outfits look like. I'm not an expert seamtress(yet) so I decided to try something crazy and easy. I took a pair of newborn overalls and made my own pattern for blessing overalls. All I have to do is find a newborn dress shirt (I used to have one but I think I actually got rid of it because I didn't have pants to go with it..ahhhh). They came out really cute and are actually made out of scraps from my wedding dress (my sister made it).
Beautiful white cute little overalls with pearly white snaps. I still have enough fabric leftover so if we are blessed with another one and it happens to be a girl..I can make a little dress!!

Sasha bought me the sewing maching I used for this and many many other happy projects for $50. He didn't want to spend a lot on it because he was afraid I wouldn't use it...smart man....I know a few ladies with singers, berninas etc that never touch the thing.  Last week I made two of those nursing covers that are so popular right now. They have a little bit of boning in them so you can peek down at your baby more easily.

Rough night last night...just couldn't fall back asleep so I only did one today. 

I cut it a bit short today because ..I'm crazy and was taking my kids to this pumpkinland place. The corn maze was daring to go into ...even though it's probably the tiniest corn maze in the west it was still...a maze. We cheated and left through the entrance when i got tired. I think I got the rest of my 39 week exercising in. Sasha is on a tempo run with Jeff McClellan and his wife Kimia right now. Jeff innocently remarked that I could probably still be her pacer..a month ago was a long time ago now and I'm not the pregnant chick I used to be. .....only a few more days.......

I decided to celebrate being 1 week away by running only 1 mile. I'm feeling pretty good..except for the daunting feeling of entering the pregnancy twilight zone...it's the topsy turvy place only people who go close to their due date without the intervention of well meaning golf playing doctors who suggest a induction date...it's the eternal vacuum of not really knowing when and how you will go into labor...doo doo..doo doo...

sorry had to be a little dramatic today. I thought about how great my body has been in the past actually and feel fairly confident that my water won't break in Wal-mart. I realized with all 5 of my children I have started feeling contractions after waking from a deep and refreshing sleep.

Benjamin-woke up at 4 in the morning to my first contractions and my first labor ever...exciting..painful...the ice that the labor and delivery class teacher had us stick on our arm did NOT simulate labor pains..duh!!

Jenny-I woke up around 8 in the morning and lay in bed resting and then pop!..my water broke...while laying in my own bed with noone around to see my wet pants thank you very much.

Julia- I woke up around 7 ready for the day of taking care of my two small children and as soon as I stepped out of my room-bam-contractions. This was my cool labor-I had mild contractions the rest of the day (until the broke my water and sent me into instant painful transition around 2 that afternoon) I had her at home and we basically had a party. I went on a few walks, came home and made lunch for the midwife, her assistant, the student, my mom, my kids, me..phew..I'm tired. I loved that labor.

Joseph- I took my much needed Sunday nap and woke to some mysterious cramps which turned out to actually be-labor contractions-oh yeah..this is my fourth I should know what labor feels like. Let's see..it doesn't feel like ice on your arm but it does feel like hitting your head on a kitchen cabinet. ....except lower....

Jacob-You guessed it..the pattern here is I was sleeping and then labor woke me up..what a nice body to let me sleep and then go into labor...I went to bed and was actually already at an 8. I had three thirty minute sessions during the week before he was born that got me up to an 8...also a cool way to get to an 8. So I woke up around 1 in the morning (my first middle of the night labor believe it or not ) and I didn't exactly feel contractions right away..more like.well....a baby..trying to get out of mom pains!! Those also didn't feel like ice on my arm...much more painful. Maybe they should pass out liquid nitrogen at those classes....that stuff is pretty cold and might simulate labor sort of.

William- TBA...if it feels like ice on my arm I will definitely call up my teacher of that beloved first Labor prep class and thank her-note the lady had never even experienced natural childbirth...she wimped out and got the epidural..hence the silly ice on the arm object lesson...hmmm

I had THREE hours of very mild contractions yesterday and then they stopped. I'm worried and interested to see what this means. It could mean my labor would be like Jacob's...which worries me because it emotionally drains me to start and stop with contractions...wonder if I should call people...wonder if they will start getting stronger. It interests me because I got all the way to an 8 over the week of on and off mild contractions...

I'm not going out today because I had a rough night. I was have contractions/cramps on and off and they kept waking me up. So..maybe today is the day or maybe in a week...the tension is killing me. I've decided to read conference talks to keep my sanity. Have a good one everyone.

I just remembered what I did yesterday afternoon that was so funny. My sister showed up unexpectedly and I was so grateful to have some company when I was nervous about the contractions I was having. Right before she left she asked if my stomach shook when I ran. I bragged that I could show her right then if my stomach shook...and told her to come with me. She turned it into a race...the stinker...I kept up with her almost but the 39 week belly slowed me down a little....it must have been a funny sight...too bad I didn't beat her.