And a half

Enough posts about the baby right? But that's all that consumes my mind right now. I have 9 days to go until her due date and right now I am beyond being nervous. I am done being pregnant and want it to be over already! Yesterday was my 38 week check-up and the doc says I'm dilated to 1 (and a HALF). He "gave" me the half because I said I wanted to be at a 2 or 3. So reassuring huh? :) He also tells me now I just need to hurry up and wait... yeah, I've been doing that for a week now. I'm miserable. All I want to do is hibernate until she arrives, but there are two other little ones that need me all day and two bigger ones that need me in the evenings. There are a million things I can do to occupy my time but nothing sounds fun. I even tried to go to Michael's the other day to find a little craft to do and I couldn't find anything cute enough to spend my money on... silly huh? I have scrapbooks galore that need to be worked on, but if I sit at the table too long my feet and ankles swell to the point of pins and needles and my husband teases me that I have "cankels". I could do word puzzles or sudoku but that gets boring after about three puzzles. I could read but I like to have no interruptions when I'm reading and that just isn't going to happen with a 3 1/2 and 1 1/2 year old. TV is... I'll just say that I've had enough of the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse theme song.

I'm ready for Annie to come out now. Can you send contraction vibes my way? :-) Oh, and thanks for letting me complain. I don't care who you are, the end of pregnancy is NEVER fun. I really don't understand the people who love being pregnant. There isn't any part of pregnancy that I enjoy at all except the part where I know there's a little miracle growing inside me. You can all have the rest. I want my body back! And yes, I know I'm lucky to be in my shoes... I'm one of the very fortunate ones to be having a baby right now and I do count my blessings every day. I've been in circumstances where I didn't know if I'd have another baby, and where one more miscarriage would break me. But right now, I'm 38 (and a HALF) weeks pregnant and I'm ready to be done with the baby bump.

Happy Wednesday!