Last night I broke bed rest, again. It was Ann’s birthday so we went to dinner, to a very nice restaurant, and then to her parent’s house for cake and for her to open a zillion presents – you would have thought it was Christmas! The amazing thing was I ate a pasta dinner, probably way too many peices of bread, chocolate cake, and plenty of ice cream, yet my blood sugar was fine both last night and this morning. It puzzles me when things like that happen. I have an appt today with my specialist and I intend to find out how soon after having the baby I can stop monitoring my sugar and eat normally again.
My mom and step dad will be coming up tomorrow, they will leave Baltimore early tomorrow morning and be here sometime in the afternoon. I am hoping Stacey can make it up too but I will understand if she can’t. Ann is thinking about taking off of work on Friday so she can be at the hospital and I keep telling her to just go to work and come up after. She’s had off today and yesterday and I dont want her to jeopardize her job just to be there with us. I am not sure what the in-laws plans are as far as being at the hospital, they havent said much, except that they are excited. So it could be a crowded hospital room or maybe not. I am just hoping it is comfy and that there is a place for Dean to sleep if he wants. That and that we end up with a room with a shower, not all of the rooms have showers. So it’s less than 48 hours til they start my induction! Aaaggghhhh! I am getting nervous and I already started double checking my hospital bag which I’ve already packed and repacked a zillion times in the last week. Today my plans are to go to my ultrasound appt, then go get some groceries since my mom is staying here for her stay and if Stacey comes so will she. So I dont want the cabinets to be completely empty! Not that they are but I dont think there is much variety either. I am sure mom will go shopping when she gets here anyway, she tends to do stuff like that, or she brings her own food with her?! I guess she just doesnt want to use up our stuff. Who knows. I am excited about everyone coming but I wish my brother could be here too. I talked to him yesterday but it’s just not the same.
I have decided to try to contact my dad this afternoon, and with any luck I wont be able to reach him, no really, Dean said if he were in my shoes he wouldnt call him but I keep telling myself he is still my Daddy and this is still his grandson by his only daughter and he has a right to know, even if he doesnt care, he should have the choice to come or not come. So we will see how that goes….until then I am doing a little resting and a little cleaning since we will have company soon. I plan to dedicate all day tomorrow to complete bedrest, until my mom gets here at least, and then she will probably keep me in bed too, I am sure she will be more strict on me than Dean is. I would love to spend all day today in bed but I keep feeling like there is so much to do, I got up as soon as Dean left for work to clean the floors and start what little laundry there is left to do before tomorrow. I just want to make sure that once I get back from my appt and the grocery store I can go right to bed and stay there til tomorrow. But that means getting everything done before 10 am today! So if anything I will come back and just have to finish up laundry – which isn’t too big of a deal. So it’s another dull day, one of the last carefree days I will ever have.
I keep telling Dean I want to do something grand tonight for our last night as just us but he has to be at the theater and I really should be in bed. So much for romance and spontaneity (i am sure i spelled that wrong!). But I am sure we will find plenty of time together between Caleb’s naps and there are plenty of people already volunteering to babysit. It may not be soon but I know we will find time for each other, and I think Caleb will bring us closer together. I cant wait to see Dean holding his son!!! He will be such a great daddy!
Have a great day folks!
