7:53 pm December 21, 200840
Yesterday (Saturday) was my due date. 40 weeks. 10 months. And still? No baby. Not a huge shock, since my kids tend to hang out in my womb like loitering teenagers at a mall. All upside-down and squished in there until they are properly motivated (read: with drugs) to come out. But even though I am not surprised I’m still pregnant, well, I don’t have to be all jumping up and down excited about it. (Although I have been jumping up and down trying to get some labor going.)
So yesterday, before going out with my family amongst the shopping public, I donned a t-shirt alerting people as to my state of emotion… lest they be caught off guard at my pissiness.
Then last night, with no baby and all, Zoe and I decided to make sugar cookies. Because what the heck… what else is there to do without a baby? We made festive ones with the holiday cookie cutters I finally bought this year.
(Last year we made ghost sugar cookies that we tried to pass off as angels. They fooled no one.)
And because my belly is still huge because it is STILL filled with baby? Of course it was caught in the line of action:
But the cookies… they turned out nicely. (The secret ingredient: sour cream. And don’t over-bake.) Yum-o.
Zoe did a fabulous job icing them:
But ran into some trouble with one of the gingerbread dudes when his head fell off. Delicious decapitation:
(The girl mugs for the camera way better than her mother.)
So that’s my update.
Yummy cookies: check.
Baby: not check.
If I post something next week that begins “41 weeks”… just shoot me.
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Oh darling. I am feeling for you – not only the 40 weeks but the WHAT IF YOU HAVE THE BABY ON CHRISTMAS? Maybe that doesn’t stress you out; you are a better woman than I.
Baking cookies seems a smart alternative to labor.
*thinking of you*
Comment by stephanie (bad mom) — December 21, 2008 @ 8:58 pm
I hope he is born today (12/22)! He can have my birthday because I’m not needing it anymore.
Comment by Kerri — December 22, 2008 @ 2:22 am
It’s time for Jon to take you for a ride on a bumpy road!!!
Oh, and Zoe, your cookies look yummy…headless and all.
Comment by Joan — December 22, 2008 @ 4:05 am
Yummy cookies! How were the crowds on Sat.? I went out for a little bit and then decided to go home because everywhere was getting so crowded.
Comment by Aunt Sam — December 22, 2008 @ 4:20 am
I don’t know how you make pregnancy so pretty, but you are rocking that bump.
I hear your long pregnancy woes. I visited a church on my due date, and the elderly lady who asked (when was I going to explode) was shocked that I would go out on such a day. If she only knew that I could very well be carrying my 7 year old, in utero, to this very day if it weren’t for modern science.
May the good meds be in store. You are in my thoughts and prayers. I can’t wait to hear the good news.
(Do you have an induction date set, with Christmas ahead? I know sometimes they try to plan these things…Planning and pregnancy – I made a funny.)
ox
Comment by Lisa Milton — December 22, 2008 @ 7:16 am
Love the Preg-zilla face and tee.
Mmmm Ghost Angel cookies, let’s have s’more of those! ;o)
Ya’ll got snow? Maybe some shoveling will bring on the labor…we’ve got plenty. C’mon over!
Comment by Nerak — December 23, 2008 @ 3:15 am
I’m still anxiously awaiting news!!! Hopefully he came out Monday…’cause cusp babies are fun! Sending love and holiday wishes from Maryland!!!!
XOXO~
Stephanie
Comment by Stephanie — December 23, 2008 @ 3:18 pm
So – kiddo comes out and what you don’t have time to blog about it? WTH? Just kidding, although some pictures would be much appreciated.
Comment by shahara — December 25, 2008 @ 10:00 am