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Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope you're all having a very happy, fun Thanksgiving day. We're not cooking, but we have been invited to have dinner with our friends Ken and Nadia and their family. It's fun- we end up trading Thanksgiving back and forth with them depending on who has family in town and who's traveling. And Ken fries their turkey which is quite tasty!

Mom is flying in this evening. We ended up telling her to just take the flight since she already had the ticket. I'd hate for her to cancel the ticket and then for us to end up at the hospital at 7 tomorrow night when she would have been here anyway. Besides, Doug and I both feel like the baby is coming soon. (Quite frankly, I'm writing this Wednesday night so for all I know, I'll be at the hospital already when it posts.)

So, happy Thanksgiving to you all. I hope you're having a really wonderful holiday with your families and friends. Enjoy those turkeys and all that pie!

Another appointment late this morning. Not much has changed. Doctor says everything is in place, everything is ready, we're just waiting for Little Miss to decide that she's ready. She really doesn't see me going much past my due date at all. Quite frankly she sounded quite surprised that nothing had happened yet.

But, just in case, we're scheduled for an induction on December 7. If we go much past that date, I have a better chance of needing a c-section which I really do not want.

Everything else is great, though. Still feeling good, although huge. Sleeping fairly well which is nice. It's amazing what not having to go to work will do for your disposition.

Hope everyone is having fun getting ready for Thanksgiving! If Little Miss decides to come tonight/tomorrow, we'll get to come home on Thanksgiving. Fingers crossed!

In other news, today is Doug's last day from work. And, he should be home any minute now which is quite lovely. Gotta love those training days!

Just found a list of Thanksgiving/Christmas specials on TV beginning today and running through the end of the month. Check it out! I'm sure there's something in there for you. Some are special episodes of regular TV shows, some are marathons (like SyFy's Bond marathon on Thanksgiving Day!), some are just weird.

Sadly, with no cable, I won't be watching hardly any of these. Although, after perusing the list, most of it looks weird and not necessarily holiday themed. I can wait for December. When I find a list of Christmas shows, I'll post it for you.

We had another appointment today. Nothing's changed. We're just waiting for Little Miss to decide she's ready to come meet us.

Any day is fine with me at this point.




We worked on the nursery when we got home this afternoon. We're having the house cleaned tomorrow so we had to get all the extra stuff off the floor in that room. The crib is going to go where the desk is when we move it back into the nursery from our room in a few months. And the swing will move around the house. Eventually Pam, who helped me sew the blanket and did the bumper, is going to recover the chair cushions for me. We ran out of time (and I haven't picked up the fabric yet anyway). We'll also eventually get around to decorating the room, too. We have some decals for the walls, we just haven't put them up yet. Nor have we gotten to the show poster project. Soon!

This is it. I have 8 hours to get through and then I am on vacation maternity leave.

I've been training someone since last Thursday. I have written out directions for weeks, trying to cover every major thing I do. I have worked ahead for 2 months to get things finished and ready to go so that there would be less work for a replacement to do. It will be interesting to hear how the next 12 weeks play out in the office.

8 hours!

Just had to share these pics. You may have seen Kim, Doug's sister, in the shower pictures. She has really, really long curly hair. Super long, gorgeous hair.



We got an email from her yesterday with these pictures. She cut it! A lot of it- 18 inches! How crazy is that?! But, it looks really fantastic. Kim is beautiful anyway and this haircut just looks amazing on her. I can't wait to see her at Christmas!

Here we are all dressed up for the opera. This being Austin, we were of course dressed perfectly. As always, there were people quite dressed up, as you would expect at the opera, but there were also people wearing jeans. We fell right in the middle of the clothes spectrum as did most of the crazy people we saw.



And, of course, a big belly picture.

Tomorrow is our 6th anniversary. 6! We have big plans for the weekend. Tonight we're heading out to dinner and a movie- Doug's choice. I'm not sure what he's decided yet, but I do know we're going to see The Men Who Stare at Goats. It looks pretty funny.

Tomorrow night, we're off to the opera! It's the season opener and we're going to see La Bohème. It's my favorite opera and I've never see it before. I'm quite excited.

Hope you all have some fun plans for the weekend, too!

I have so much homework to do right now, but I'm so unmotivated to do it. Instead, I'm watching my belly move as the baby has quite the workout this evening. The school projects are interesting and I'm enjoying them. I think I'm just too tired to deal with them today. I've at least gotten started on the paper I'm writing and I have my references lined up. I just need to think through the rest of it and actually write it. Luckily, I've been able to work ahead a little bit, too, and get some of the smaller projects finished up for both classes. I've got one to go and then I can focus more on the big projects.

In other news, I'm only working for another week and a half. I haven't been sleeping very well lately and so Doug has imposed a stop-work date. Which is fine with me. November 13 is my last day at work... just 8 days to go. Hopefully at some point this week, there will be someone for me to train to fill in while I'm on maternity leave. They've had months to prepare at work, but no luck yet. I guess we'll see what happens.

I'm looking forward to my time off and hopefully getting a little more sleep. Or at least a few naps!

Today my sweet friends from work- Pam, a coworker, and Lea, a volunteer- threw me a baby shower. They invited tons of ladies from the church- volunteers, people I work with a lot, friends... lots of people.





It was so much fun! We played a bunch of games and had some laughs. Pam made an absolutely fantastic, gigantic cake. And some tasty little mints. They had some little appetizers and really yummy punch. And I opened so many presents.




Let me tell you, this little girl is going to be the best dressed little girl you've ever seen. We got so many cute outfits today in a bunch of sizes.





It was fun to close the office for the afternoon and all have some fun together. I said we should get together and play silly games far more often. And close the office, of course.