Summer and Sweet Waiting
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Blog problems…
Oh, blog issues are so fun. My host has apparently been having trouble keeping up with server demands. Then I tried to install a theme and my whole site crashed. Now that it’s back up, my feed count shows that I’ve lost about 150 subscribers. That’s a common Feedburner issue, though, so I hope you all can still see my post!
Baby prep…
Aside from a lack of sleep, things have been good around here lately. I’m 35 weeks today and really excited. I feel like I’ve turned the corner. Only two more weeks till I’m full term!
I’ve been sorting baby clothes this week. A family from our church gave us a huge stash of newborn to 9 month clothes. I’m so thankful and they’re so cute! I’m not setting up a room for Eliza; just a little corner in our room with her clothes, diaper caddy, and bassinet.
We might move her into a corner in the office when she’s a little older, and eventually I’d like her to share a room with Christian, but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.
I’m definitely nesting. I’ve been so productive considering I’m 8 months pregnant and really tired. I love checking things off my to-do list and have been highly motivated to do so. I hope this lasts awhile longer because it’s a lot more fun than forcing myself.
Books…
I’m reading An American Childhood by Annie Dillard and Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled by Martyn Lloyd-Jones. I’m trying to balance fiction/memoir with nonfiction. I own plenty of great nonfiction books to read in the future, but I’m trying to find good classics that aren’t too dry and dull to read – think Chronicles of Narnia, not Moby Dick.
I just read Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen for the first time last week and loved it! I still haven’t read Mansfield Park. I’ll take any suggestions on good classics to get from the library!
The big brother…
Christian is getting so old… he is moving up into 24-month clothes and is already too tall for some of them. He has his 18-month appointment tomorrow. I can’t believe how much he changed between 12 and 18 months. He really went from baby to toddler. I miss him being a baby but I know he’s still little and this is a fun age too.
I think that about sums up life for your absentee blogger. Thanks for sticking around!
I love it when it’s time to start getting out the baby clothes, and washing them up. It’s always such a reminder about how much they grow. You forget that tiny little people wear such tiny little things! So many of my friends (irl and bloggy!) are due in the next 1-3 months, it’s crazy!!
Just wait until Eliza gets here and you see Christian next to her for the first time. Then he will really seem huge. I’ll never forget holding Q for the first time after Sprig was born. It was so odd, because he had been my baby for so long. Pretty soon our boys will be taller than we are…
*sniff*
I can’t believe you are 35 weeks already! Where did the time go? That’s so great that you got so many baby clothes for free! The Count Of Monte Cristo was pretty good, if I remember correctly – it got a little slow in the middle, but I enjoyed it. Hmm. That’s the only classic I can think of at the moment.
Some of my favorites novels are Oliver Twist, A Separate Peace, Persuasion by Jane Austen (I LOVED this), Little Women, and the Anne of Green Gables series. Happy reading!
I’m still here! I’ve been a bad blogger and commenter due to my craaaaaazy work schedule. We’ll see if things turn around in the next couple of months. 
Oh, so close – you must be so excited to welcome your little girl! It doesn’t feel like I’ve been reading your blog long enough for you to have gone from single college student to married mommy of two!
I hope it’s alright that I’ve added your blog to my list of favorites
More than all right! Yes, it’s happened quite quickly!
I *highly* recommend Uncle Tom’s Cabin, if you haven’t read it. Really beautiful. I also loved Bleak House (Dickens) when I read it last fall.
Oh, thanks Amy! I just happened to check Uncle Tom’s Cabin out from the library yesterday. I read it in high school but my memories of it are dim and I’m looking forward to reading it again.
I would also really like to read Bleak House. I saw a little of the BBC version. Thanks for reminding me of that!
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