It seems crazy that with so much going on in our lives right now, I actually never really feel the desire to post on this blog. However, here are some things I've been thinking about, in no apparent order.
- It's funny how you can know something is a good decision without really being sure why. When we moved back to Utah, we felt good about it, but I've had lots of misgivings about the timing and money and other issues, so occasionally I wonder if it was in fact a good idea. Then I realize how much I love being able to do all kinds of things to get ready for the baby, like painting a mural the nursery and buying fabric with my mom and ordering the crib (because yeah, we would not have moved the crib in June). And then I get some bins full of my sister-in-law's maternity clothes JUST when I was about to run screaming to the store because I'm sick of having 5 shirts that look decent on me and several of them are about to be too warm for spring, so suddenly I have a huge borrowed maternity wardrobe and I don't have to fork out a couple hundred dollars for paneled pants and baggy shirts. And then I feel ill when I look at meat at night and Mom decides it's her night to make dinner, even though it's clearly way past my turn. And then we get free tickets to see RadioLab at the museum of Natural History next week, and tickets to go to Conference this weekend, and I am content. And THEN I unload the dishwasher and remember how happy I am not to be washing smelly dishes by hand.
- Speaking of buying cribs (a few run-on sentences ago, if you remember), it is terrifying. Everything I read seems to point to certain death if you buy the wrong crib for your baby, and I have to remind myself that some of these cribs have been on the market for years and would have been pulled if there had actually been a problem. And crib mattresses! Not firm enough! The coil counts! The pressure to buy things made of organic substances at exorbitant prices! We finally found our economical solution by going to Babies 'R' Us to look at some cribs that Consumer Reports said were safe and a good deal, and then we had the same crib shipped to Wal-mart for about $60 less. I found a mattress I felt okay about and bought that too, and then tried not to be anxious about it and instead thought about the cute crib sheet I had that would match the room and the quilt that can't actually go in the crib (since you can't put ANYTHING in a crib or your baby will SUFFOCATE and it will be on your head FOREVER).
- I thoroughly enjoyed the movie Midnight in Paris, which we saw earlier this week. My enjoyment had everything to do with the pleasure I took in recognizing the 1920s icons before they announced who they were supposed to be. Ernest Hemingway sounded exactly how I would expect Hemingway to talk, and Adrian Brody was fabulous as a rhino-obsessed Salvador Dali. (I also very much enjoyed going to The Hunger Games with our friends Josh and Paige, but everyone enjoyed it, so I'm not going to spend much time talking about it, except to say that I was pleasantly surprised about how much I liked Lenny Kravitz in it.)
- We are about to be working on a second mural, a space-themed one in a neighbor's house. I'm putting aside my desire to have the baby mural done because I'm kind of excited about painting planets.
- Sunday night we were at my brother's house, and we were testing my nephew on his colors. It went down like this: "What color is daddy's shirt?" "Blue!" "What colors is Megan's shirt?" "Red!" "What color is Grandpa's shirt?" "Hulk!"
- Influx of awesome new music recently - new Shins album, new Andrew Bird album, new Punch Brothers album, etc. Life is good.
A couple of pictures to fill out the post:
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| Here's me about a week ago, 23 weeks. |
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| Here's the baby girl about 3 weeks ago, at 21 weeks. |
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| Some trees from the nursery mural in progress. That branch over on the left side is going to have a possum hanging from it by its tail soon. |
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| A hedgehog from the nursery in progress. |
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| And a raccoon, who is very chill. |
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| The walrus sketch Eric used to try to convince me walruses belonged in the nursery mural. Cute as they are, his efforts failed. |
