Elizabeth’s Journal

Brain Dump

It’s been a long time since I wrote in here! I’m definitely slowing down, and in the evenings (which is when I usually make my entries) my brain is pretty sluggish. In the mornings I’m trying to keep up with all this information Daddy has been gathering from the old Church records in Wurzweiler so that I can hurry up and update the web site again. We let our cousin Dennis (the priest in Florida) know about the site and about the new info on the Karls, and he was impressed/pleased. It’s fun to be finding out all these new things.

Jonathan has been wearing underpants (as opposed to pull-ups) to bed for about a week now. No accidents yet. Dale and I have great fun taking him to the bathroom to have a widdle after he’s gone to sleep; we take him once or twice. He’s very cute and pretty much does the whole thing in his sleep. Boy he makes a beeline for his bed when he’s finished! Can’t wait to get his head on his pillow and pull the sheets back up over himself.

This afternoon at 1:13 p.m. I’ll be more pregnant than I’ve ever been before—at this stage in the pregnancy with Jonathan, I’d been in the hospital since Tuesday, unable to feel my abdomen or legs since last night, and in about twenty minutes I’d be about to embark on a nearly useless course of pushing in the presence of a totally disengaged nurse who stared at the monitor the whole time. Still 3 hours and 12 minutes to go before the forceps & episiotomy . . . have I mentioned how glad I am we are going a different route this time? Mom told me recently that my cousin Carol commented to her recently how much better I was going to like labor this way rather than the standard hospital methods (her first was like mine, I think, and then she too wised up for her next two children). That was most encouraging to hear.

Dale and I have been watching a really good (canceled, of course) series on DVD that he borrowed from a friend at work—it’s called Firefly.
Probably not up Mom & Dad’s alley since it is mildly futuristic (500 hundred years in the future and everyone cusses in Chinese), but it is really quite good! I didn’t believe it had been done by a major American network (Fox) until I looked it up. The writing for the show is great—nice dry sarcasm, and the actors do a great job of delivering it. No stupid one-liners, and no irritating laugh track! And the focus is definitely the people, not the environment they’re in.

Easter was quite nice and laidback. Jennifer & Stepan came over, and so did Matt (much to my surprise). We had to do the egg hunt inside since it was wet outside, but Jonathan still had a good time. Then we had a light brunch of devilled eggs, cold cuts & bread graciously supplied by J&S, and yummy non-alcoholic drinks of oj & ginger ale prepared by the other expectant mummy. Jonathan was thrilled to have some of his favorite people around for so long. Dessert consisted of Easter chocolate and some funny little hatching chicks made from white chocolate that Mom sent to Jonathan as an Easter present (from Williams-Sonoma, which no longer has a picture of them on their site, so you’ll have to use your imagination). After brunch, Jonathan & Matthew put together a little 24-pc Easter puzzle after brunch.

Then last Saturday Matthew helped us out again by mowing our lawn for us. Jonathan kept him company for a large part of it, and then he talked Matt into reading a couple of stories with him and educated him all about Thunderbirds. About 7:15 p.m., Matt headed out, although he was at the door when Jonathan asked if Matt could be the one to get him ready for bed. We said perhaps next time.

Dale and I have been trying to develop a sense of urgency about the baby and getting some preparations done—like getting all the receiving blankets and clothes out of the attic so they can get washed and ready for use. He finally got them done night before last, although there’s still some stuff up there that he’s going to have to look closer for. This weekend after the shower I plan to get everything washed, and then we’ll just have to figure out where in the h*** we’re going to put it all. (Ha ha ha.) Then all we’ll need is the baby!

Posted by elizabeth at April 22, 2004 08:59 AM