|37 weeks - aka "any day now"|

matt is getting that "nesting" syndrome. he ran out to buy new curtains and curtain rods for the nursery. last week he put up blinds, and he decided that they didn't darken the room enough.

i gave him my target gift card and he came back with pink butterfly curtains. this nugget has the nicest room in the house!

things have gone so smoothly with her. she's dropped, head down and still kicking... and i'm wishing she would hurry up. in the past two weeks, my ligaments have loosened considerably -giving me a pleasant waddle. it's been difficult getting around, though. everything is slow going. i think the hardest parts of this journey have been the morning sickness and the hand/foot swelling. they seem to interfere with daily life and work the most. each day seems like an eternity, now. work is getting more difficult on a daily basis.

we took a birthing class a couple weeks ago, which was great for matt, i think. he has really started to pay attention to things. he even bought a book! he's worried about the labor, but i'm not. the baby will come out -hopefully safe and sound. my biggest anxiety throughout has been breast feeding, but we'll tackle that when we get there.

the veggies are still rolling in, but i think things have improved a bit. tonight, we had pasta with sauteed zucchini, eggplant, and green peppers with a pesto cream sauce. even the pesto was made with garlic and basil from the CSA.

work has been interesting. since starting as chief resident, i've been in a position that requires a lot of people skills. i've found that in our department, this might be equivalent to babysitting. today, it occurred to me that this is probably true in most places. i am not sure i have the patience or stamina for a position of leadership if that's true. so much time is wasted on idiocy and incompetence. i'm looking forward to maternity leave to get away from it all.

any day now.

|CSA week 5|

well, the usage of the vegetables has been on and off. this past week, i made cheese tortellini (from the freezer section) in butter cream sauce with kale, peas, zucchini, and garlic (all from the farm). and we are down to a single head of lettuce in the fridge!

this week's pickup:
- garlic
- zucchini
- yellow squash
- curly kale
- rainbow beets
- spinach
- onions
- sugar snap peas
- cabbage

except that i forgot to pick up the cabbage -which is fine because we never got around to cooking last week's cabbage. we still have some chard in the fridge, which i am actually thinking about tossing out. i guess i am not that big a fan of chard. notice that we didn't get chard or lettuce this week! hurrah! i warned matt that it's only a matter of a week or two before we start wishing we had more lettuce.

there is a baby shower tomorrow! with men, and beer. where there are men, there is beer. we made an attempt at kid-proofing the house, since we'll have a bunch of rugrats running about, too. matt wasn't happy about putting away all of his grown-up toys. but i warned him that if he didn't, they would become kid toys! most of them are probably not safe for little tikes, too. it's good, though, since we needed to do that for ourselves, eventually. the real test of whether the house is kid-proof enough will be when the kids arrive tomorrow.

we realized we didn't have any kid toys. what are a bunch of kids going to do at our boring house?! the solution: we bought a gallon of bubbles solution, and some wands. bubbles -great for all ages... even the adults!

so, our house is also pretty much decluttered, as a result of the kid-proofing. this pleases me immensely. and i promised matt that we would get him a real dvd/cd cabinet. i also surprised him with a remote control mini-helicopter. he's been wanting one of these things for years. i figured it's his last change to be a big kid before the real kid takes over.