The Month of The Bailey

Happy New Year, Everyone! John and I celebrated with the good folks in the central time zone this year and were asleep by 10:30. Our line of thinking was: why subject ourselves to unnecessary sleep deprivation when we're headed for quite a bit of it in 2010 anyway? Best to start the year out with a good night's sleep. For those of you wondering why I wouldn't leap at the opportunity to organize a party and stuff my face with delicious celebratory food to ring in the new year...I instead had a leisurely, two-hour breakfast of pancakes, bacon and cinnamon rolls the next morning. These are the happy thoughts I will cling to when caring for a newborn and her crazy big sister: sleep. food. And lots of it.

Even though John took a four day weekend, it feels like it has flown by. We've been taking down Christmas decorations and are still working on cleaning and organizing the house from the Holiday madness. And as always, we're slowly checking off the To-Do list for Bailey's arrival.

Our friends Steve and Natalie came to the Tri-Cities for the weekend with their three boys and I volunteered my belly as a model for Natalie's photography portfolio. It's always so much fun to see these guys, but I feel like Audrey really got to bond a lot more with the boys this time. She especially latched on to their oldest: Christian. (Audrey calls him "Chin-Chin") I think he is angling to get in her good graces so she'll send him care packages full of cookies when he's in college, though. We spent Saturday night and Sunday afternoon playing, eating, catching up and taking pictures. It really was a great time and it went by way too quickly.

Now, suddenly, it's Sunday night and most people have to return to the real world in the morning. I may not have a technical job to go back to, but I sure do have a lot of procrastinating I've been blaming on the holiday weekend to catch up on. In the mean time, I'm trying not to think too fondly of getting this kid out of my belly. I'm full term, which has a tendency to get my hopes up, especially when I'm starting to feel like I'm carrying a bowling ball in my hips and have occasional false labor contractions. I also don't have a lot on my schedule this week...perfectly open if I were to say...oh, I don't know....have a baby? Here's wishing!