Christmas Came Early

I love the Christmas season. I love buying gifts for others and (I must be honest), I love opening gifts too. I have a good friend in Dallas named Jill who welcome her third child to their family this past May. She has no plans for more children, so I asked if I could have her maternity clothes. She was thrilled to send them to me and yesterday, I was thrilled to receive them! My closet has just grown exponentially. Thanks, Jill!

But, there was just one problem with getting all these wonderful clothes: laundry. I did eight loads of laundry yesterday and have one more to go today plus the sheets. Friday is my usual laundry day, so I had all the new stuff and our week's worth of laundry. I guess it was a good problem to have. Now, I can see my glaring pile of ironing. I know many of my friends don't iron, but I do! I hang-dry all my clothes or else the legs of pants get too short or the arms of shirts get too short. The pain of being slightly taller than the average woman.


This weekend we tried a little Wichita culture by going to the Wichita State University Volleyball game. I love volleyball and we have heard that the Lady Wheat Shockers (you don't hear that name in Texas) are very good. The tickets were cheap and the parking was free - even better. We knew the team color was a very bright yellow because we have seen it in every store at the check-out counter, but that day we just both happened to wear red, not really thinking about going to the game. And, neither of us have any yellow. We got to the game and realized that we were two of maybe ten people NOT in Shocker Yellow. Oops. If we go again, we might invest in a Wal-Mart $4 Shocker t-shirt. We took the picture to hopefully remind us of just how wrong our Cougar Red (University of Houston) looked among the Shocker Yellow. The picture is mostly our faces, so you don't really get a good view of just how much yellow was in the stadium, but you can imagine.


Pregnancy Update: Morning sickness ended just after 12 weeks, so that was a great change. My struggle now is that there is no real evidence that I am pregnant. I can't tell that my belly is getting bigger each day and I don't visit the toilet anymore, so what 'proves' that I am pregnant? I am just anxiously waiting for my next appointment (Oct 8) to hear the heartbeat again. I do feel pretty normal though - almost normal amount of energy and not starving all the time. I still forget everything, so I try to write it down. Even yesterday at the grocery store, with a list in hand of only five items, I would look at this list, take a couple of steps and then have to stop and look at the list again. Crazy!