freddie mercury wardrobe

so compare these 2 pictures....do you see the emergence of freddie mercury fashion with naomi? hmmmm.

travelling, sisterhood and pregnancy

so i just got back from visiting my friend jill (and her 3 kids!!) in kentucky. cathy and i drove out together from dallas and it was probably the fastest 14 hours i've ever had in the car. naomi did wonderfully and cathy and i had lots of time to talk, listen to music, relax, etc.

when i got back to town on saturday michele had left the "sisterhood" journal. i am now wearing the necklace and have gotten to glance through the journal a tiny bit, but have yet to write anything. as timing would have it i hit a real low a couple of days ago: physically, emotionally, spiritually. i spent literally all day monday, til about 3:30, laying on the couch, completely exhausted, feeling sick and achy. liz, maybe it's like wet noodle syndrome? i felt so discouraged about my relationship with God, feeling like it wasn't much of a relationship, wondering if i'm really a christian, etc. and just stewing in apathy. so on top of all this i'm thinking "great, and now it's my turn for the journal...i have nothing but morose, sad, dejected thoughts to put in there. yippee." but renee pointed out that sometimes our sad times are the most meaningful. that's probably true. in high school the only time i heavily indulged in writing poetry was when i was down. most of it was junk, but some was okay. i'm feeling better right now though, so that's a bit of a relief...

and today i went to the doctor to get a sonogram to find out how far along i am in my pregnancy and i'm 9 weeks today! i think there's some sort of hormone peak around the 8th or 9th week, which probably contributed to my being incredibly lethargic and desparing, like intense pms. so it was really cool to see the sonogram with little leg and arm buds sticking out from the round little body. cool stuff. however, it looks like i might have chronic slightly high blood pressure, so i need to monitor that and hearing that might be the kick in the pants to really be faithful in getting regular exercise. but everything else looks good, so that's always encouraging. we'll start telling the austin people tonight at oasis now that we know how far along i am. so the due date: October 25. sounds good to me!

i'm going to try and catch a nap while naomi's still asleep.

oh and my pregnancy cravings are in full swing, the other night for dinner we had fish patties, garlic bread and mac n cheese (the KRAFT mac n cheese, jenni, not even the good stuff!) notice there are no vegetables in that meal, very bizarre for me, but the thought of veggies sort of made me ill--you'd think fried fish might make me ill, no way!