It's certainly a time to rejoice - my last day of work is tomorrow! It could not have come any sooner, because I am really done with the day to day routine of it all. I'm ready for a new routine. From now until baby day, I'll spend my days sleeping in, cleaning the house, taking naps, Christmas shopping, taking more naps, and relaxing. I know the time is going to fly by, and before I know it, my routine will be all about the baby.

We are leaving tomorrow after work for Brazil, IN to spend Thanksgiving at my sister-in-law's parent's house, along with my family. It was a closer drive for us, which is still a bit longer than I'm looking forward to. We will just have to take a lot of breaks! We will be there through Friday afternoon.

I have scheduled a prenatal massage for myself on Saturday afternoon, and I am so excited about it. I got a gift certificate for it when I first learned I was pregnant from my mother-in-law, and I can finally use it! What a great way to start my maternity leave.

We are having the garage drywalled this week, and it is very close to being done. It looks great. It will be nice to have a heated laundry room this winter, for sure. Andy did a ton of work to prepare for the drywall to be done, and I'm so proud of him for it! He can be very handy!

Happy Thanksgiving!

So it's day 10 of the beard contest. My growth is progressing nicely if I do say so myself. While I don't think that I'm a contender for the top prize, I do feel a sense of comradery with the other 115 odd participants. See my progress at www.whiskerino2005.com. Check the link

That means a maximum of 10 weeks until we meet this baby. I just had another appointment this morning, and everything is still going fine. I have recently been starving practically all the time, and I told Andy I'm probably going to start packing on the pounds. I gained 3 since my last visit 2 weeks ago, as compared to 1 in the previous 2 weeks. It's good, though. Even if I gained 2 pounds a week for the remaining 8-10, I would still be within the recommended range of pregnancy weight gain. I'm sure some of the weight gain has to do with my ridiculous amount of milk consumption. I bought us 2 gallons last Friday night, and had to go buy more on Wednesday. TWO GALLONS in FIVE DAYS! And Andy doesn't use much milk! This is a picture of me at 29 weeks pregnant, so 3 weeks ago. I tried to post it last time but it didn't work.

So I added some functionality to the website. Now it functions more like a traditional blog, with categories, image links and photo uploads. You can click any of the category names listed in the "under:" section to view all posts associated with that category. It'll make the site feel more alive.