week 37 shower

30Apr07

Last Friday my co-workers gave me a shower; it was a fancy event, complete with white paper table cloths, carrot cake and caramel brownies. They gave me $150 gift certificate to Target, a blanket, a towel/blanket, a layette and stuffed bear, a hand knit stuffed rabbit, some adorable baby shoes from Guatemala, and a hand [...]

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DeCordova

25Apr07

 

As I said in my last post, we had a lovely day last Sunday walking around the DeCordova Sculpture Park. It was the first nice weekend in a really long time, so we were glad to get out and enjoy it … although after a couple of hours of walking around, my hands became so [...]

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heartbeat video

23Apr07

Kelley and her team came on Saturday and it was a very documented event! Photographer Jamie Giambrone came with the midwives to take pictures while Dru shot some video. I felt like quite the celebrity. Jamie already sent me the pictures she took, but I’m just going to post the video today and post the [...]

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What the lady wants…

20Apr07

Many people have asked me, “Why homebirth?”…and if they don’t ask I can see it in their eyes right before they say, “You are so brave!” But for me I would have needed much more courage if I planned on having this baby in the hospital. There are many reasons for this. First of all [...]

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Messy nursery

16Apr07

Since we are on the home stretch I thought I’d give you a sneak peek into the state of our preparedness. This baby will be loved, adored, and well cared for, but I tell ya, he or she may not have the finest most expensive hippest baby stuff in the world, at least not bought [...]

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How many weeks?

12Apr07

Oi. I was just thinking about my post from last night where I mentioned that I have “6 more weeks to go”… then I looked on my calendar and counted the weeks to my due date; it doesn’t seem right, but I have 5 weeks. People, that’s one week over a month. Just thought I [...]

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Poor and spoiled me

11Apr07

Woo woo! The train is coming through! I couldn’t believe how big I looked after Dru took this picture. Really. I’m getting to be huge and I still have 6 weeks to go!
Here’s another one:
Yep, I’m getting to be as big as a house. But at least I don’t have to travel any [...]

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Rock n roll easter

08Apr07

Well, after a brief hiatus from blogging I’m back. My work week from hell is over and we celebrated by visiting with Jennifer Flynn, our good friend from MS who lives in New York City now, and taking the baby to see Iggy and the Stooges.
Jennifer got here Friday evening and we spent a [...]

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Busy busy

02Apr07

Well, after a busy weekend full of sitting with Mass. Historical Society friends around banquet tables (New England Archivists Meeting and April’s wedding) I’m now at the beginning of the end of my busy-ness at work. After this week hopefully things will start calming down a bit. Until then I thought I’d pass along a [...]

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