Hello Due Date!!!

Open Letter to "Yet to be Named" little girl:

WHERE ARE YOU??? I know. Your still in there, but you are so supposed to not be! Today is your due date August 29th. Your not late. But I feel as if you are. There is much anticipated, anxious waiting for you from our house to NYC to Point Lay, Alaska. People are being updated with phone calls, Facebook and satellite phone texts messages (that's your Unkie Dan, he's above the Arctic Circle right now doing research...you'll meet him soon, he's very cool!) But still you decide to stay where you are. We were going to try and force you out today, but a hurricane is sweeping off the coast right now and causing all sorts of OTHER women to go into labor, creating a back-up at the hospital. And so we have been bumped to Monday, when we will then try and entice you out with fun drugs and stuff! However, we are all hoping that you decide to make your own unaccompanied appearance, say... today... or tomorrow.... how does that sound?

Let me know. I'm right here. Just waiting!

Love, 

Mom

39 Weeks

Waiting. We didn't have to do this with Tate. He was one week early and we were n0t ready for him. I still had an unfinished client project, Dave was still building his custom furniture, and his clothes and cute little baby things were unwashed with the tags still on. And suddenly I was in labor, yelling "Oh shit!!" We needed more time.

Well, this time here we sit, one week before her due date and all client work has been finished for 3 days, her bassinet and dresser with clean, untagged clothes in it has been set up for 2 weeks, the house is clean (thanks to yesterday's crazed cleaning jag), dinners are waiting in the freezer, and bags are packed. And we wait.

But I am relaxed and unstressed and even made cookies today! I think I like waiting rather than running through the house yelling "Oh shit!!"