1.  SuperStarOB told me yesterday that if I go into labor they won’t do anything to try to stop it.  Which means he thinks Thor is capable of doing just fine on the outside.  Which is an awesome and completely humbling thought.

2.  My dog is recovering.  She’s moving slowly still, sleeping more than usual (which is a lot, given that she typically sleeps 19 hours a day!) but she’s interested in going for walks, and accepting of as much cuddling as we can give her.  When I went to lie down in the middle of the day, she hopped up on the bed, fit herself around me and the pillows that prop me up, and sighed like all was right with her world for the first time in a long time.  So glad she’s doing better.  (And we’re hoping for a completely flea-free day today!)

3.  All of your meal-planning suggestions were wonderful.  THANK YOU!!!!  (And, OMG, thank you for the emails with SCADS MORE RECIPES!)  I found a quesadilla recipe on cookinglight.com and am happy to report that it was tasty – I think I liked it more than the Boy, but that’s ok, since he often makes things he likes more than I do.  Fair’s fair, and he doesn’t mind, so long as he doesn’t have to cook.  Perhaps tonight we’ll go for that red shrimp chowder…  It’s fun to plan out meals – I’d almost forgotten how much I enjoy this part of real life.

4.  There’s a farmer’s market today, though it’s all the way up by the courthouse, about a mile away.  I may not actually be up to walking there & back, loaded down with tomatoes, but the thought of fresh tomatoes is so tempting, that I might just do it anyway.  Since I also want to go by the stationer’s store to buy some heavy paper for the birth announcements I’m making, maybe I’ll multitask…  Hmmmm…..

5.  I started working on my book again yesterday.  It’s overwhelming, starting a new draft of an old book, trying to fix the things I know are wrong with it, while being open to the fact that I KNOW I’ll find more things that need fixing along the way.  Still, it felt good to be doing something creative, to be working on the thing that my heart tells me I need to be doing with my professional/creative life.  I’ve got these few years of freedom-from-a-paycheck coming up, and I want to be able to use them to advance my creative life as well as my family life.  Yesterday felt like a very good start.