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Maternity portrait session (warning: nude belly ahead!)

Some folks have been asking about how my nesting/cooking is going. Hmmmm, well, er… pretty well. I’m about 3/4 done and just have a few entrees and breads left to do. As soon as I’m finished I’ll post a photo of my freezer– it’s shockingly full!!! ;-) In the meantime, I took a morning off and treated myself to a haircut and maternity photo session. more…

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Nesting with $400 in groceries

Nesting: Feeling the need to prepare for the arrival of the baby by cleaning, organizing, etc. Often happens toward the end of pregnancy.

Ok, so now that I found this definition I feel a little bit better about what I’ve been doing the past few days.  I started week 35 yesterday and decided that I needed to prepare food for the remaining weeks and for at least a month after Audrey is born.  This probably won’t come as a surprise to anyone who knows me well– feeling prepared and cooking go hand-in-hand for me.  (Just ask my friend Toree who was the beneficiary of enough home-cooked meals to feed an army last year.)  Sometimes I think I should have been a caterer. But I digress…

I already knew about nesting and got to see it firsthand with my neighbor Heidi, who is two weeks ahead of me in her pregnancy.  more…

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Big birthday, small celebration

I turned 40 this week… there, I said it!  Sigh…

I have to admit that I didn’t feel much like celebrating.  I mean, it’s incredibly hot and humid outside, I feel a bit like a hippo on dry land, I can’t drink a toast, I can’t salsa dance, and I’m usually ready for bed by 7 p.m.

But you know what’s funny?  I didn’t even care.  more…

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