OOOH oooh oooh!

My sister had a midwife appt today. She's now 3 centimeters dilated, 60-70% effaced, and engaged at zero station with PERFECT presentation and positioning. This is all without any pain or labor so far, keep in mind (lucky little grumble grumble...). Her "due date" was 3 days ago and it's a full moon tonight. COME ON BABY!!!

I'm praying for her safe and healthy birth of a perfect child. You should, too ;)

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I suppose it's a little ridiculous to complain about how completely exhausted and beat you are after a long day trying on new clothes and picking out designer bath products...( but damnitt I really am! )

Grant is simultaneously reviewing job offers and screening applicants to his own company. How it all plays out will determine whether he shuts down the business and works for someone else, or expands. Either way I think things will be looking up for us before too long.

It's such a toss up...It would be very, VERY hard for me to lose the flexibility we're so spoiled on, for when he comes with us to PATH trips or runs home when I get sick or lets me sleep in or what have you. But it would be so nice to just have him doing a 40 hour work week and that is IT. Because as it is he basically always works, unless he's excercising the flexibility - his default state is working. It sometimes means 12 hour days 7 days a week. Our normal routine is for him to break for dinner at 7, go back in the office until bedtime routines, and then go back in again until like midnight when we'll maybe watch a show together, or a movie less often. It would be so much less stressful for him...but we'd be at someone else's mercy and he'd feel like he failed. He could be making so much more money RIGHT NOW...but we'd lose that limitless potential, that the business has. I don't know. I really don't.

We're trying to get my mother to come down here with her little clan for Thanksgiving. My sister and Frank and (!!!) their baby could come over and it would be great. My longstanding tradition is to be in Key West with my paternal family for Thanksgiving, but I want to be with Laura and she is basically refusing to travel with a newborn while still in her postpartum period (which I understand). I am hoping she'll go for Lakeland for Christmas like the past couple of years though...the baby will be almost 2 months old by then and I know my Nana and Pa would be more than thrilled to pay for their rental car as a present, if that was their holdup.

Enough rambling for now...it's disorienting to have been out at stores all day that are all already overflowing with Christmas. I refuse to succumb; Thanksgiving is important too! I won't let it be lost in the shuffle.