I’m feeling a little guilty here.  It is only one hour until Baby B’s due date and only 25 hours until her scheduled induction date.  Did I jump the gun?  Should I have given her a little more time to come on her own?  Honestly, I’d much rather go into labor naturally, but the fear of going way overdue and having to push out another 10lb child is overruling every other feeling at the moment.  I’m trying to tell myself that it will all work out in the end either way, but somehow pushing my child into something she’s not ready for seems like a terribly mean way to start out her little life.

In any case, I am sort of glad she didn’t come early.  Sure the tax deduction would have been nice, but I’ve gotten so much done in the last week and a half: laundry, house cleaning, Christmas cards, receipt sorting for taxes, Christmas decorations put away, more house cleaning and lots more laundry!  I even got the load of baby woolens washed.  (We have a ‘wool’ setting on our washer, which makes me feel like I ought to do the wool things by themselves, but when do I ever have a whole load of wool clothes to wash?)  Which brings me to Alethea’s funny moment of the day…

I kept telling Alethea that the little hand-knit wool hats, mittens and sweaters on the drying rack were ‘for the baby’, but apparently she didn’t quite get the message.  I was in my closet hanging up some clean clothes when around the corner comes Alethea in a yarmulke, or at least that’s what I thought it was until I took a second to realize she had adorned herself with one of the baby hats and it didn’t come anywhere close to covering her cute bobble head.  I got quite a good laugh from that one, but unfortunately she took it off before I could get a picture to share the moment with you all!

Well, I suppose I should get to bed here.  I have an early morning appointment with the midwives.  Who knows though, maybe I’ll go into labor in the middle of the night and then I won’t have to worry about going to the appointment or feeling guilty about scheduling an induction at 40 weeks.  One can always hope, right?