37 weeks

Just sharing a recent pic. Jake is never home to take it when I'm all freshly showered and stuff, so you'll just have to put up with the dirty mirror and no face. :)

Another one bites the dust...

1. 20 weeks, 5 days-Oct. 29-Gestation at which my water broke with Spencer PASSED!

2. 24 weeks-Nov. 21-Viability PASSED!

3. 30 weeks, 3 days-Jan. 5-Gestation at which Spencer was born PASSED!

4. 37 weeks-Feb. 20-Full term PASSED!

5. 40 weeks, 1 day-Mar. 15-Overdue


I am full term today. If you'd have asked me 37 weeks ago if I'd make it to this point, I'd have probably done two things: say probably not and pass out at the thought.

Physically, this pregnancy has gone swimmingly well. Emotionally, its been really rough getting to this point. You know scary things can happen in this world, but until you experience them its just someone else's problem. You might feel bad for them, but you are secretly so grateful it isn't you. That is kind of how I felt during this pregnancy. I experienced something terrible and scary in my pregnancy and with Spencer's NICU stay. I was terrified to repeat it. (I feel the same way about driving the stretch of I-40 where my step-mother had her car accident. It almost makes me hyperventilate.)

I am so grateful to have made it this far. There are no words.

Yarn Love

I'm so totally in love with this yarn. I hope I have enough for newborn longies and small shorties for the summer!

Is gradual the way to go?

This is one of my favorite times of the year. Even better than Christmas. Its tax return and profit sharing season! *spreads confetti all around*

Last year it was easy to decide what to do with our profit sharing (to be further called PS for simplicity's sake). We knew we'd need to live on it from September to this March. We paid off a little bit of debt and shoved the rest into our savings account. We've done pretty well living on it and will drain the account in about the next week or so. Perfect timing.

This year we are getting a bit more of both our tax return and of PS. I think Jake and I are going to have a pretty moderate conflict relating to how to go about spending this money.

We have quite a bit of debt. My first student loan payment will come due next month and I have no intention of putting them on forbearance any longer. The interest they've accrued in the last 3 years makes me sick. Jake's student loans are much smaller and we've been paying on them for several years already. We also have a credit card with a nasty balance, one with a relatively small balance, and still owe 2 years worth of payments on my car.

Jake wants to pay off as much debt as possible and adjust our tax exemptions to cover the difference. He basically wants to spend all the tax and PS money on debt. I get it. Debt sucks, its no fun shelling out all that money every month on interest and junk.

I want to sock that money into our savings account again and draw an allowance. What we are getting for PS would cover our expenses from this March to next March. I am especially hesitant to adjust our tax exemptions b/c I know how much we love to get our money back every February. We are able to pay off things in bulk or buy big ticket items we need. I'm also afraid we'll end up owing next February, which could be catastrophic given that PS might not be as good next year b/c of the economy.

I know there is middle ground to be found here, and we'll find it, I just hate it when we aren't on the same page about stuff. He wants his way more than I want mine, but I just feel like we're shooting ourselves in the foot if we spend all the money and save none for expenses.

I'm lodging a complaint.

But its not pregnancy related, so I feel like its ok.

I have a sinus infection and I am so miserable. I started sporting a headache tonight when Jake and I went to dinner, but I thought it was caused by the massive toothache I was having. Sometime around 2 am I woke up to roll over, and snot poured out of my nose. That is all I had to know to diagnose myself.

I haven't been able to go back to sleep yet. The pain is pretty moderate, bad enough that I can't lay on or touch the right side of my face. My teeth and jaw are killing me, not to mention the pouring snot again. I did some googling and it turns out that it is pretty common to have toothaches in the top molars during a sinus infection (any guesses as to where my tooth pain is?).

I have a baby shower to go to tomorrow, so I'm really hoping I can get back to sleep soon. I'm at my grandparents' house this weekend and there isn't a tylenol to be found anywhere in the house. I took some Tylenol Sinus but it hasn't kicked in good enough for me to doze back off. I may wake up my poor sister and get her to get me some. She's quite the hypochondriac so I know she's got some stashed in her room somewhere.

Off to try to sleep...