I just went through and read my posts from this same period of my pregnancy with Gregory and I managed to make myself cry.  :-)  I liked how how I had a post early on the 16th saying that not much was happening, and then one the next day announcing the birth of our son.  I also particularly liked this sentence, “At this point I am in the odd position of feeling like the baby’s birth is both imminent and impossible.”  That sounds just about right.  The baby is very low, but otherwise I’m not feeling particularly close.  In the last week or so of my pregnancy with Gregory, I was having fairly regular contractions in the evening that would peter out sometime between 10 and midnight.  I haven’t had any of that yet, only sporadic, but fairly strong contractions occasionally during the day.  I am going by the assumption that going into labor this time will be like last time, but I also realize that it seems rather foolish to make this assumption based on only one other data point.  (I was induced with Emma, so that one doesn’t count)

I am doing pretty well, energy-wise, and I had hoped to take the kids to Mass at 8:30 this morning then on to the park, like we did last week.  However, the kids were exhausted this morning so I opted not to wake them and try to force food into them so we could run out the door.  I think it would not be a good idea to try to go to a small weekday Mass with tired and cranky children in tow.  Why oh why can’t we have a midday Mass like so many other parishes?  I guess I wore them out yesterday by dragging them all over Roseville and Auburn running errands.  I think today will be a laundry and cleaning day, then we’ll head out to the property in the afternoon to run around and feed the dog.  Tomorrow morning we’re going to go to a ranch that some friends from church are caretakers for and we’ll get to feed chickens, meet the cows and horses, and visit.  It should be a lot of fun.  We’ve been to a potluck there, but it was drizzling the whole time so we didn’t get to explore much.  There’s another potluck there on the 7th, but I have no idea whether we’ll be able to make it to that one or not!  

During our errand running yesterday I stopped in at Jo-Ann’s and bought some denim to make a gathering apron for Emma.  She loves to wear dresses where ever we go, and she also loves to use her skirt to carry all her treasures from place to place.  As I’m sure you can imagine, carrying rocks, sticks, and leaves is not the greatest thing for her dresses so I thought I would make her some sort of apron to use instead.  The trouble is that I can’t quite get a good enough picture in my head of what this should look like to be brave enough to make the first cuts.  I bought some muslin as well, and I think I may end up doing a mock-up first.  I’ve been doing Google searches for apron tutorials, but so far what I’m finding isn’t really full skirted enough to work for what I want.  I’m thinking more along the lines of farmwife than 50’s housewife and unfortunately I’m largely finding the later.  I hadn’t realized just how trendy aprons are in certain circles though - there’s quite an  apron renaissance going on out there!  Once I get it figured out I’ll have to post pictures.  I should post some pictures too of the everyday dresses I’ve been making for Emma.  They are very easy and she adores them.