It's Been a Week?

Hum, looks like it's been a week since I last posted.
What a slacker.
You would think that I'd have time to blog since I'm basically just sitting around here waiting for Stella to quit teasing me and make her entrance into this world. Because really? That's. All. I've. Been. Doing. But also doing it in a very hermit crab sort of way. Hard to explain.

We survived Spring Break. Which really was a blessing because the weather was quite cold, and wet, and just yucky. We spent nearly the entire time inside watching movies, playing games, etc. etc. Jim had to work the whole week so we really couldn't go anywhere and I wouldn't have gone far anyway since I've been having prodromal labor for over a week now. That's just a nice way of saying, "lots of contractions with zero action". However, when it gets going it still wears me out and keeps me wondering, "is THIS it this time?" So far? No.

My mom had her Spring Break this week so she came down for a couple of days and got to enjoy our snow. I know. Snow. April. Blah. For the last several days it has snowed all morning long and then the sun has come out in the afternoon.

Of course this leaves me thinking about little Stella's come home outfit... which isn't exactly snow friendly. Of course it really doesn't matter but I decided that I wanted to get a little knit/crochet beanie, ideally with a little flower on it to match her outfit. While walking the mall yesterday, before my appointment, I did find a cute one at particular larger retailer but A) wasn't ready to fork over $26 for B) a hat that didn't match and C) was going to be too big for a newborn. It was cute though. So we just continued to walk the mall and I beat myself up about how I should have just ordered one from Etsy several days ago blah, blah, blah. Anyway, the mall walking was getting uncomfortable and we were getting close to my appointment time so we just headed over to the docs office which is connected to the hospital.
And got there way too early.
So we decided to make sure that we know where we need to go when since I was in a total fog the last time I was there. When we got to the correct floor there was a little baby only gift shop, separate from the regular hospital gift shop. Aha! Surely they have a cute little hat. So we went in and looked around but still didn't really see what I had been looking for. But then, there on the counter was a box of hats, the perfect size. And one the perfect color.
"Excellent! How much is this one?"
"It's free"
"Really?"
"Yup, go ahead and take it now!"
"Serious?"
"Yup, the church ladies bring them in by the bag full"

Love this little hat. I added the flower to it after we got home.

So cool! So we got our hat and headed off to my appointment. No weight gain this week. BP is still good and although I was hoping for 'more' after days of contractions and walking the mall, I was at 3cm and about 50% effaced or so. More waiting. Of course he thinks that once things start they're going to go very fast which is the part that has me kind of anxious because after all this on again, off again stuff, I'm really worried about waiting too long to see if it's for real! I'm sure it will all work out in the end and if not, well, then at least I'll have an interesting story to tell!