June 19, 2023 is the day that everything changed, for the better. And here is the story. I got up to pee that Monday morning at 6am (and was hoping to go back to bed lol) but I stood up and my water broke. I called my midwives and they said that I could wait at home and see what happened in the next few hours as long as I could feel the baby move and then go in at 10am and they would assess me. By 8:30am, I was having some contractions and they went from 20 minutes apart to 5 minutes apart by the time we were leaving for the hospital. They hooked me up to monitors but didn't think I was in pain enough to be in active labor so they said I could go home and labor from there for a bit. (Said "just try to distract yourself!" - yeah right...) We went home but the contractions were 2.5 to 3 minutes apart and I couldn't do anything else to distract myself. (Tried lying down to rest, bounced on the yoga ball while watching Cake Boss.) I finally decided to go back to the hosp...
We've really had a lot of time to think about things these days, haven't we? Maybe too much time. As I write this post, I start to think about how time is considered so precious and fleeting yet in this period, it has been in abundance for most people. But that's a completely different topic for another time . The snow came on a cold December Thursday in Boston. This is the one year I'm fine with any amounts of snow - I have nowhere to go! I don't think the condo association loves that though when it comes to plowing our parking lot. I might have too much time at home and this might be a stretch but as I looked out our poorly insulated window the day after the storm, I observed various scenarios that I thought applied to all different people and life situations during this covid/racial injustice and its awareness/natural disaster and attack and explosion/political/stock market instability/general world instability etc (!) season. Here is a picture containing most...