Creature Comforts

My growing pile of Yo-yo's. Its an easy project I can do while watching my favorite tv shows. Still trying to figure out what to do with them all someday.

I think the second-trimester during pregnancy is this great in-between phase. I'm over feeling gross and constantly exhausted, and yet my stomach isn't too big to feel uncomfortable. Its also the stage where I realize that in several more months, I'll be sleep-deprived and busy caring for a two-year-old and a newborn.

Soren playing with his train.

Which means I've been taking the time to enjoy life lately. Our home has felt so cozy and peaceful. Soren and I spend most of our days playing - either at friends houses or at home. He's got me driving trains all over the place, using plastic bowling pins as baseball bats, and running and tripping over imaginary touchdown lines with our Nerf footballs. And our favorite time of day is when daddy comes home. Its nice to just spend time together as a family.

Soren insisted on wearing a baseball hat and holding his bat and ball to watch his favorite baseball movie yesterday. He likes to practice running and falling - I think that's what he thinks sliding into homebase is - falling.

It's fun, but also a little draining. And sometimes I just want to sit on the couch and watch someone else chase down balls with him.Which is why once he is in bed, all I want to do is sit and do one of the following:

• Watch as many girly tv shows and movies as I can (McLeod's daughters, Lie to me, Disney Channel movies, etc..)
• Read, Read, Read - but nothing too serious. (I've really gotten into fantasy and mysteries lately - the mystery I'm reading now takes place in Charleston. It is a ghost story that gives you fun shivers and is best to read before midnight).
• Make things - but nothing where I have to get off the couch and set up my sewing machine. Which is why I have a nice little pile of Yo-Yo's (top of this post). I can sit on the couch and watch tv AND make them. The best of both worlds.
• Eat really delicious food - like the lemon bars I made earlier. Making things has been a fun activity to do with Soren. Its win-win, because he gets to play on the kitchen counter with me and I get something delicious to feed my ever-hungry belly. Besides lemon bars, we also made Raspberry and Cottage cheese muffins - yum! My latest craving is Low-Country Boil. But I don't want to make it myself - I want to visit Savannah and have somebody make it for me.