Anyways, just trying to get through the next few days. My auntie Lee is coming down this Friday so she’ll be here when Connor is born so it will be really nice to have her here with us. It will be nice to have an extra hand around the house and also so that I’ll have someone with me in case I go into labor when I’m at Target buying mini chocolate doughnuts (my new addiction).

Todd is currently putting post-its on my baby bump right now….that’s all that’s new from here. Hopefully we’ll have an update or that we’ll be blogging from the hospital soon!!!

I also just wanted to give everyone an update- just went to the doctor yesterday and went through the lovely procedure of checking my cervix to see how dilated I am. How come nobody has mentioned how uncomfortable and downright painful that process is? *TMI ALERT* I’ve always been a tampon girl and now I’m being forced to wear diapers pads and I’m having terrible cramps. Anyways I’m 1 cm dilated and the baby has dropped…don’t get too excited though- that could mean something or nothing. I could walk around for weeks dilated a few centimeters so I guess time will tell. But my doctor did say that progressing early on like this could mean that the early stage of labor when you stay at home as long as possible could be shorter so we’ll see.

Also, my best friend Jess who is also a talented photographer took some belly shots last weekend of me with Todd and she just posted them to her blog. Here’s the link if you want to check the rest of them out: blog.photojessic.com

That’s it for now, I’ll post those baby shower pictures as soon as I can and hopefully Todd will be on here posting pictures of our brand new son within a few weeks!!

PS- Happy Birthday to my wonderful husband, I love you honey!

Anyways, I wanted to get on here quickly and thank everyone who came to the shower and also to those of you who couldn’t make it but sent or dropped a gift by anyway. I truly appreciate everything that everyone did- especially my wonderful mother and two great aunties, Lee & Lisa. Lee came all the way down from Thunder Bay, Ontario and stayed for the better part of the week working her butt off in my kitchen (she also did some shopping, but that’s par for the course if you know her at all!) Of course I’m working on sending out formal thank you’s, but I just wanted to get on here real quick and thank everyone who checks in on the blog.

The shower was a ton of fun and we really received some very, very nice things for baby Connor. Here are some pictures: (thanks to my uber talented friend & photographer Jess who used some of her fancy camera tricks w/ my little old “point & shoot” camera!)

PS- Lacy & Mandy just love Connor’s new stuff

So I think that getting through another jam-packed four-day holiday weekend deserves a celebration or some kind of toast, don’t you? Only problem is that Jillian here can’t drink…and I didn’t think it would bother me but it’s starting to get kind of old. I have literally been grabbing people’s wine glasses from them and taking a sniff of the deliciousness that I have to wait until next spring to enjoy. It’s getting kind of embarrassing now that I think of it. So until then I guess I’ll be drinking Coca Cola from my champagne glass…classy I know.

Back to the point: Another Thanksgiving weekend gone and past and alas I have survived. No I did not throw any turkey drumsticks at my dad’s any of my family members’ heads (although I may have been tempted- that wasn’t passive aggressive was it?) and of course everything went smoothly with both of our families this year…..although we got into dangerous territory a few times about the Adam Lambert performance on the AMA’s and if Chaz Bono is a man or woman at Todd’s aunt’s house. As you know (or maybe you didn’t) I am very open-minded when it comes to GLBT issues, I have family members that are gay and also many friends so it’s kind of one of my “hot-button” topics. So not losing my mind (outwardly at least) at some of the things that were said is a heroic feat. For me. I understand that others feel differently than me on this topic and trust me I deal with at work ALL THE TIME, I think I just wasn’t expecting it at Thanksgiving…but I guess that means I had forgotten the cardinal rule during the holidays: Be ready for anything and in my case I should always bring ducktape for my mouth (especially if there is wine- a good thing to remember specifically for next year).

Another survival note: Despite a minor annoyance with the idiots who work at JC Penney, I got through 8 hours of Black Friday shopping on 4 hours of sleep where we polished off the rest of our Christmas list- so I’m feeling pretty good about that. I love crossing things off lists, it is quite possibly the best feeling in the world.  Todd and I also had my family over for dinner on Saturday, we made my mother in-law’s pot roast recipe (thanks again Linda!). The house is still all in one piece and everyone loved dinner (except my dad wasn’t a fan of the potatoes, but who’s keeping track of parental criticisms? I never do that)…

We also got the Christmas tree and decorations up as is tradition on Thanksgiving weekend as well, so another thing crossed off of my holiday to do list! So all in all, things worked out pretty well. I’m not thrilled about being back at work after the time off, but our “Holiday Luncheon” is tomorrow so that’s one good thing…

FYI: Todd expects lots of “ewws” & “ahhs” over the letters that he spent part of the weekend and this week sanding and hand painting (he even did the dots)!