37 weeks

I can't believe I'm full term already!  It seems so surreal that my due date is in 3 short weeks.  We get to meet our little boy so soon!  He is an active one already; my belly is visibly moving and grooving as I type.  We are very excited (and a little scared) to enter this new stage of life.

Everyone talks about how miserable the last few weeks of pregnancy are, and they are right.  Miserable is kind of a strong word, but I am definitely ready to get my body back.  I don't have the stamina that I used to; everything takes longer to accomplish and tires me out more than it normally would, so I am not as productive as I would like to be.  My hips hurt, my back hurts, my belly hurts, and my feet hurt and are in a constant state of being slightly swollen.  Thank goodness for flip flops!  It's very hard to get comfortable so I'm constantly shifting positions, and tossing and turning in bed, despite the fact that it takes a huge effort to do so.  Rolling from one side to the other is no easy task when you have a watermelon attached to your abdomen and blocking your abs from working correctly!  

I also do not enjoy the extra attention that my belly attracts.  For some reason, people seem to think that the rules of politeness don't apply when talking to or about a pregnant woman, and suddenly all questions about your body are appropriate topics of conversation.  I'm not talking about friends and family of course, I don't mind getting more personal with them.  I'm talking about complete strangers who somehow think it's acceptable to ask how much weight I've gained.  Or the people who walk past me in the mall and remark to their friends that "that lady is very pregnant!"  Or the people who immediately say "I would hate to be you right now" because of the heat.  I have A/C and I'm from Texas, it's really not that bad.  And anyway, I'm having a baby, it's a happy thing, maybe you could focus on that.  I guess the good thing about all this is that in the future I will be much more careful what I say to pregnant women!

Mentally, I am almost ready to have this baby.  I have a few more things on my list to do before he comes, but every time I check something off the list I feel a little more prepared.  Our kitchen is 95% done (I'm waiting on some hardware to arrive), the nursery is done, I have almost everything I need for the baby, and my bag is mostly packed.  Next week if I can get some cleaning done, some freezer meals ready, and some baby clothes washed, I will feel pretty prepared.  It is very nice to be nearing the end of my gargantuan to-do list.  I know that I made it a lot worse by insisting on doing some major house projects, but it was stressing me out.  Xander, we are almost ready for you and can't wait to meet you!