28.3 Weeks Along - Only 81 Days Left! I Can't Believe It's November Already

It's hard to believe my pregnancy has moved along so swiftly and that it's November already. I recall thinking back to those first few months and feeling like they'd never end and I'd forever be a member of the "I'm Not a Bulimic, But I Vomit Everyday" club. Morning [noon and night] sickness this pregnancy has by far been the worst out of them all. Gareth and I scarcely let out a complete breath the first 20 weeks of this pregnancy because we were still so scared after what happened last October with the placental abruption. While there was nothing this time around from the get-go that indicated the same thing, we were hesitant to get our hopes up. All signs point to a perfectly healthy little girl. It’s nice to be able to look forward to this enthusiastically. And that we are!

Summer Stress

So much has happened this past summer that sometimes I’m incredulous as to how fast it went by or that I survived it. Between all the back and forth travel to the UK, Gareth's several interviews with PC, the company here in Maine and other New England area firms, various clients I’ve worked with and those I opted not to, to our move out here to the beach. Whilst the move added a lot of unnecessary stress and at times was almost disastrous, it’s over and done with and in the past. We are so very happy with where we are.

So here I sit, quite comfortably headed into my 7^th month with a little over 11 weeks left and I can hardly believe these 28 weeks have seemingly flown by. And even though I’m starting to become quite uncomfortable and looking forward to the end of the pregnancy, I’m in no rush to hurry things along. No, she can stay all nice and warm and cozy in there and just bake away until her time is up. Well that and reading some of the threads that other January mommies from my birth-club have posted about getting ready for baby, I realize we have a ways to go before we are even close to prepared for Gidget’s arrival. With as much shopping as Gareth and I have already done, there is yet so much more to do.

Shoppers Holiday Insanity

Now that it’s November the mobs are going to start showing up at the mall and area department stores in maddening droves, I’d better get some, if not most, of this shopping taken care of, because let me tell ya, there’s no way I’m dealing with the insanity that seems to descend on Portland when the holidays get here. I swear, people get taken over by temporary insanity during the holidays.

I’ve been shopping in December and been in stores with women who were on some sort of “seek and destroy” mission….Seek the most prized possessions of the season and destroy anyone who gets in your way. They’re like “Urban Assault Shoppers”….seriously. I’ve been reaching for something when Sarah-the-Savvy-Shopper has reached for it at the same time and almost snatched it right out of my hands. I would not have been at all surprised to see her lift a leg and pee around the area, marking her territory.

People during the holidays are one of two things; one- genuinely jolly and happy and light of spirit, or two- mean, nasty, selfish goats who have become single-minded materialistic demons who care little about the safety of those around them and descend upon area malls like a plague of locusts.

And I’ve not got the patience or physical stamina to deal with Sarah this year, or any of her other Urban Assault buddies who come dressed in matched sets from LL Bean, with credit cards that are literally still smokin’ hot from their last seek and destroy mission.

No thank you!

So on that note, I’m going to run out right now and pick out my Thanksgiving turkey before Sarah or her buddies have a chance to pee around the poultry case at the supermarket.