Last night I spent the evening asleep in the arms of the recliner. I wanted to say I spent the evening in the arms of Marty but that just doesn’t sound right.

I had a really good chat with my friend Becky tonight… one where I was able to nail down what this pregnancy is doing to me, emotionally. Here’s what I had to say:
I have never been so full of joy and terror at the same time. Never so blissfully happy and scared spitless [...]

As mentioned earlier, my mom was down on Wednesday. As you can predict, we ended up at BRU where she found a Prenatal Heart Listener. I must admit, I thought she was crazy.

But it works.

We tried it on Wednesday with no luck… just hungry Jen sounds… then yesterday I had the washing [...]

This is the closest I could get to the gaudy fabric Marty the Recliner is decked out in, but hey, it’s what was on sale:

David and I will be buying Marty sometime this week and hopefully picking ‘em up on Friday or Saturday.

This is THE MOST COMFORTABLE chair we have had the [...]

The orange drink was not all that bad. I didn’t get to choose between any sort of flavors. I didn’t expect it to be carbonated, though. There was a clinical sort of taste to it that made a strange aftertaste linger around after a swallow, but all-in-all, I expected it to be much worse than [...]

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crib, originally uploaded by davejenbarnes.

I bought the crib mattress today. It fits like a glove. A snug glove. I used the measurements recommended on [...]