Outside my window...
It was COLD this morning, which is lovely.
Breathing deeply...
We're doing much better on the evening walks -- probably at least half the evenings? Plus a lot of barge-hauling and bale-toting as we rearrange the house for baby.
I am thankful for...
a relatively easy pregnancy. Everything I want to complain about seems to be a signal to remember that someone I know has the same symptom, only more troublesome, and sometimes for a sadder reason...
I am listening to...
the hum of computers; writing over lunch time at work (with my feet up on a standing desk, which makes leaning up to type rather interesting, given this big belly).
From the kitchen...
Husband made a spectacular chicken-and-bok-choy stir fry on Sunday. Last night, I made two batches of "pumpkin" chocolate-chip cookie bars, using some CSA squash instead of the pumpkin. They've got a weird bitter aftertaste, which the internet suggests might be due to slightly rancid (even though fresh-bought) whole wheat flour. Also made two batches of fudge, which I haven't yet gotten around to picking at...
I am wearing...
"skinny" maternity jeans (the comfy full-panel ones were all skinny jeans when I was buying jeans), a white camisole, and Husband's red sweatshirt. That last item looks particularly weird to me; it sits almost the same way it does when I'm not pregnant, except that it's full of firm round belly instead of air.
I am creating...
Still working on the chemo cap; progress is frustratingly slow.
Bringing beauty to my home...
Same as last week: We're in the middle of an enormous furniture-rearranging project to make room for the new baby, and we also have a new couch! Practicing letting go of all the Stuff I've been holding on to, and hoping the practice builds skills that stick.
I am reading...
Working on reading more actual books; I still read a lot of blogs (well, blog archives, really), but I'm sauntering through What Matters in Jane Austen? (from the library) and Going in Circles (which has been on my to-read shelf forever). Both fun; the former is a bit dry, but interesting to me, while the latter is mostly silly (in a good way). Also reading scraps of the Our Bodies, Ourselves pregnancy and childbirth book.
I am hoping...
for a safe and reasonably happy birth for this baby, and for healing and good health all over my family.
I am pondering...
how to present this paper to the reading group on Thursday
Cultivating rhythm...
Our late schedule persists; it still frustrates us a little, and still seems to be working pretty nicely as far as household functioning goes.
Learning lessons in...
compassion; as I mentioned above, all the pregnancy symptoms I want to complain about seem to have become calls to remember others who are suffering more.
One of my favorite things...
anticipating autumn and Thanksgiving and Christmas -- and now, this year, baby too.
A few plans for the rest of the week...
It should be pretty quiet around here; I'm hoping to have the energy for more evenings of rearranging and culling. Husband is going for a weekend hike. I don't really want to leave the house at all; I want to be at home, making home better.
It does seem that my love of open spaces and my desire to have our baby grow up in a tidy, open house is enough to make me get rid of things I've been holding onto.
A picture thought...
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