the waiting game...

a little glimpse of the past week:  

though i made it through the week, maternity leave has been surprisingly less than interesting.  i've gotten several things done around the apartment, read two books, watched some trash tv and rested up for the big day (funny, my last "big day" was my wedding!).  *twiddles thumbs in boredom...*

the doctors appointment this week (06/17) revealed no new information.  our next appointment is thursday (06/25).  i will be given an exam and induction will be discussed.  please keep those digits crossed that i don't have to actually have that discussion and little one will make things a bit easier on his mama.  and his daddy...bless jeff's heart for putting up with me!  

still dealing with daily (especially evening) contractions.  last night, i was certain things were happening.  i even finished packing my hospital bag...it only needed a few things, but i was procrastinating (i know, shocker!). 

my 29th birthday was spent enjoying sushi with the hubby.  please save the harassing comments...it was only the "safe" sushi.  nothing raw or high in mercury for this mama-to-be.  i crave wasabi...yumm!  it's the only "heat" i can eat and that does not result in intense heartburn.  and just between you and me, i was hoping the spiciness would put me into labor.  i will say that i had pretty intense contractions that evening.  

allow me to backtrack to thursday evening.  let me set the mood:  10 pm, relaxing in bed, watching a movie.  it's a beautiful evening, so the windows are wide open with a cool summer breeze coming in.  wait, what's that noise?  someone decided to move into at 10 pm...using a beast of a diesel moving truck.  not exactly a quiet mode of transportation.  frustrating, to say the least.  but, we didn't let that disturb our movie.  you know what did disturb our movie?  the central fire alarm going off!  it's a sound that i would be okay never hearing again.  jeff and i cluelessly fumbled around the apartment trying to figure out what we should do.  should be consider this a real fire and go outside or should we ignore it and put our head under the pillows?  we grabbed our cell phones and ging and left.  ginger will be the first to admit that she wasn't impressed with the sound and the flashing lights in the halls.  thank goodness there was not a newborn in our apartment.  it certainly would have made the situation even more difficult to handle.  though it was a false alarm (faulty alarm, so says the fire chief), it made me think about how things are going to change.  and change drastically.  no longer will the most important things we grab be the cell phones and the dog.  i promise to always be a mama-bear and look out for my little guy.  i promise to protect him from any harm, false alarm or not.