Author Archives: Carrie

six months down

And three months to go! I’m entering the 3rd trimester today, so we’re on the final third of this journey! I am certainly ready for Lydia to be here — I’m ready for a RARE filet mignon, among other things. I figured I would please y’all with a belly shot. Don’t look at the dirty […]

a memoriam to my pants

Earlier this evening I was enjoying my its-not-delivery-its-Digorno pizza when Hermione hopped into my lap to see what flavor pizza I had. I figured that was none of her business so I started to nudge her off my lap. Hermione started to slip off my lap despite her best intentions to hold on, then all […]

making preparations

Woo, I’m 26 weeks today! Only 14 weeks to go, give or take — maybe she’ll come a bit early. The Husband and I are getting more excited to meet her. She seems to be getting more excited to meet us as well — her movements are a lot stronger. Sometimes you can even see […]

bad day/good day

Hermione had a horrible day Saturday. She was lounging in the sun when her Mom and Dad came up with The Carriers — there was no escape. Trapped, she pleaded and cried for them to stop the torture — surely her Daddy would heed her cries — but they took her all the way to […]

my bladder is not my own

The constant peeing thing that many pregnant women talk about is beginning to come on. I’ll be sitting or laying down, perfectly fine with the world, but when I get up and Lydia shifts DOWN, it is instant alarm bells. I’ve already freaked The Husband out once running to the bathroom crab-legged. I’m not making […]

leaving for work

Steven’s about to walk out the door to head to work. I’m in the bathroom, still flat-ironing my hair — one of my few vanities. Steven leans across the threshold of the doorway to the bathroom to kiss me goodbye. He’s not allowed entrance because Renton has stretched himself lengthwise across the doorway like a […]