Very quick post…

I just realized I hadn’t posted this morning.  Oops!  It is unlikely I’ll get much posting done today anyway.

I’m working in my office at CU today.  I’m actually cleaning it out.  I resigned my teaching position a couple of weeks ago, and I wanted to close up shop before someone else was assigned my office!  So I have lots of packing/boxing to do.  But don’t worry, my dad is stopping by after work to move everything to my car.  I have too many books for me to do much of lifting myself!

The weekend was very, very good, but I’ll update the specifics later.

Happy Monday!

I suspect it will be a pretty quiet Xanga day today.   Honestly, that’s okay because I really don’t have a lot to blog about today.

Mostly, this week has been about getting to and recovering from the ultrasound on Wednesday.  The aftermath has been quite interesting, really.

• Emotionally, I was absolutely drained on Wednesday afternoon.  I had known that I was stressing about Wednesday’s ultrasound and what they would find, but I didn’t realize how much until it was over.  Then I was just tired.  So I called people, sat on the couch and let myself recover.
• It’s amazing how much my perspective about the babies has shifted now.  It’s so much easier to think of them as real, as real people, than it was before.  I’d seen them on ultrasounds 3 different times before Wednesday, but something about that one, the good news, and knowing their genders has made the idea of parenting, the idea of children come alive. 
• I’m glad we found out what they are.  I need time to prepare, and I was struggling to know how to start. Now I feel like I can really make a plan and get it done before there is a great danger of them arriving.  Of course, they may still jump the gun, but even that idea is less stressful to me right now.  I guess, as Terri noted, I needed to get my ‘chill’ back.
• Picking a baby name is freakin’ hard.  Picking two seems impossible.  I have an unusual name.  I know how hard that can be for a kid.  My name also rhymes with lots of things.  Another set of lessons learned.  As a book I was flipping through reminded parents: Names are for life; choose well and wisely.  But when you’re looking through a book of 25, 60, or 75,000 names…it’s a hugely daunting task.  (BTW – we don’t plan on sharing the names we choose until they’re born…just in case you were wondering.)

So those are some thoughts from the last couple of days.  Just thought I’d share.

As for today, we are heading to the farm for a couple of days when Eric gets home tonight.  So I need to do some prep work for that.  Should be a relaxing weekend, for the most part, although my in-laws do not have A/C and it’s going to be HOT this weekend.  Hopefully, I won’t melt away out there!

Anyway, happy Friday!  Enjoy your weekends!