My parents are fantastic
Mama Jae and I have been quite busy these past couple of weeks, getting the house ready to sell and with work/school stuff. This week is by far the craziest, for Mama Jae especially, since she is trying to write a paper, prepare a presentation, and attend a several-day-long meeting, with attendant wining-and-dining of out of town guests. What with that happening this week, and us focusing on house stuff last weekend, it feels like a really long time since we had QT together. One or the other of us has had stuff to do every night this week, and that trend will continue until Saturday, when she has to really focus on work to meet a deadline next week.
Meanwhile, the quotes from the painters made our eyeballs pop out like warner brothers cartoon characters. I had been hoping to avoid painting, even though it would be water-based latex, because of the whole fume-inhalation thing. But once we got these quotes back, it was clear that we couldn’t afford for the painters to take care of every little nick and nail hole. So I had decided to try to get as much of it done by myself as I could this weekend (with the windows open and the fans on, of course), and we’d hire the painters to do the rest, because work was really going to start getting crazy next week and we need to put the house on the market as soon as we can.
Enter my parents. They live an eight-hour drive away, but as soon as I told my mom what the coming weekend entailed, she offered to get on a plane to come down and help. That quickly evolved into both of my parents driving down for the weekend, and as soon as those plans seemed to be coming together, I felt a huge weight that I didn’t even know was on my shoulders lift off. I know we can knock a ton of things off of the list while they are here. Plus, I love that I will get to spend that much time with them—so often, when I go home, it’s to a big group of extended family, which is fantastic, don’t get me wrong, but it’ll be so nice to have them all to myself for a couple of days. I am so grateful that they are as awesome as they are. I can’t get over how generous they are being. Plus, they are bringing their dog, so Oliver will have a friend spend the night! He will be terribly excited.
In other news, realizing that being sixteen weeks means I’m four months pregnant (math was never my thing), as well as my mom’s request for a photo of my growing bod, led me to take a belly shot yesterday. It’s on the preggo page if you’re interested. I was thinking about the pregnancy yesterday, and realizing how much I love being pregnant, or this phase of it anyway. Despite fighting insomnia some nights, I feel fantastic, and my hair is shiny and bouncy, my growing body feels really good to me, and I have cleavage for the first time in my life without resorting to weird pushing-in movements with my upper arms. For a small-chested girl, this is a big deal: the other day as I was sitting in bed, my underboob was actually resting on my abdomen, just a little bit. It was a very strange and unfamiliar sensation. My mom keeps saying “you think they’re big now—just wait until your milk comes in!” THAT will be interesting.
That's so nice of your parents!
You look great, I love the belly shot! Your mom is right, once your milk comes in, they get bigger than you think possible!
Your belly is adorable! Your parents sound fantastic, that is awesome that they are helping you, and you will get to have them all to yourself
I am a member of the itty bitty commitee, so I hear you on the boob front! LOL
I just had the boobs resting on belly thing happen for the first time last week and I was ecstatic. Happy to hear all is going well, even if it's hectic. Your parents rock!
How exciting that you will get to spend QT with your parents, and hopefully Mama Jai this weekend!
You look fabulous, btw!
I love the belly shots! You look great! I'm glad to hear you are such a happy pregnant lady.
Wonderful. What a gift to have such love!! Belly looks great! Love the moving boxes in the back ground. Oy! Good luck. You'll get there.
Thank you for sharing the pictures. What a huge difference between week 14 and 16! The 14 week pic might leave people scratching their heads and wondering, but there is no doubt you've got a bao in the oven on week 16! I hope you have a great time with your parents. They are so wonderful to jump so quickly to help you get the house ready.
Awww! Look at that sweet baby bump you've got! Your parents sound great and I'm so glad you'll get to spend quality time with them.
Your parents sound like sweethearts. The baby bump is adorable.
Aw. I'm so, so glad you guys can get the help. Hooray for supportive folks. Also, I love your belly shot — look at that bao grow. Wow!
And Uno shares your newfound boob amazement. Heck, so do I. (I mean, of her boobs, of course – ha).
I love belly pics. Thanks for sharing!
Having your parents to help out sounds like such a relief in the midst of all your moving madness!
Hooray for big boobs and awsome parents!!!