1.  Had a good, sleepy day yesterday despite the ever-increasing nausea, and it really made me grateful that I’m not suffering more this first trimester.  Yes, I feel blechy, but I can usually distract myself.  But if I were as sick all the time as I felt at times yesterday – times when I had nothing to do but nap – I’d be completely disfunctional.  Thanks, Mom, for your good pregnancy genes – I’m totally getting off easy!

2.  Blue jay outside my window.  Haven’t seen them in months!

3.  I made pumpkin bread yesterday (sorry, stepdaughter.  Beets just sounded too, well, red.)  It was a mess, but totally delicious.  In fact, I’m nibbling on a piece right now.

4.  Only two days til my next ultrasound.

5.  I broke out the birth sampler that I started a couple of years ago.  I worked on it – briefly, too briefly – during my most recent pregnancy, having decided that it would be appropriate to give it to Sprog, even though it was originally intended for one of Sprog’s siblings.  Yesterday I got it out, and started working on it again, and it felt really good to do so, like I was affirming something for all of us.  Like I believe this is going to hang on the wall of a nursery one day.