37 weeks today, officially full term. Baby is settled in nicely and not coming out for the foreseeable future. *Sigh* So, now, we wait. It’s a bit unsettling to be fully on someone else’s schedule. Someone you can’t call and say “Hey, could you make it the 25th? Cause I’ve got the day free.”
On a brighter note, I am fully enjoying and taking advantage of these last days of blissful silence and blessed solitude. Never in my life have I had such freedom to just be. To do whatever I feel like, and spend my days following my whims. I realize how precious this is, and am absolutely reveling in it. Somehow, the summer did speed by, with last minute jobs to finish up, baby shopping to finish, all sorts of deep cleaning projects around the house. So so much to do, and now, finally, it is done. Yesterday, after weeks of air conditioning, it was finally cool enough to open the house and enjoy a lovely little breeze. Which makes me oh so very happy, because just around the corner is weather cool enough to allow for big fluffy blankets on the bed, and the rattlesnakes will go back to sleep and the dogs and I can head out to the canyon. I love the fall, winter and spring here in souther Cal. Perfect weather, I’ll even take the rain and it’s lovely freshness. It’s the summer I could do without.
While I’m a bit (ok, a lot) nervous about sharing my home and life with a small human being, I am looking forward to toting her up to the top of the canyon and sharing dog adventures with her. I am, for the first time in many, many years, looking forward to the holidays – and dressing my baby up to match my dogs for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and whatever holiday we’ll choose to celebrate this winter. Hey, I can make her wear whatever I want while she’s little and can’t talk. This is the payoff for the last several months of pain.
The dogs have settled in with me, and seem relatively content to hang around the house and just be. They are less stressed because there are *finally!* no extra dogs here, so for a bit, they have mommy all to themselves. A touch pent up, perhaps, as they are so used to the go go go of our life, but they are adjusting. Eventually, I’m sure we’ll get back to our life on the road, but for now, and for the next few months, it’s home we’ll be – and happy to be here.
Posted on September 10th, 2008 by michelle
Filed under: My dogs, Pregnancy, The Naked Part
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