I doubt you’ve even been to this site since August. Actually, I doubt you’re even here reading this right now. However, we’re still here and the wich baby is getting bigger and bigger as the big day approaches. We’ve just hit the 33 weeks mark and we decided to celebrate the occasion by taking the baby to his first live music events, in utero. Monday, we saw Ben Folds in Bellingham, but left before the encore due to the thunderous piano pounding. Once the sound waves started rattling our adult bodies, we felt bad for wich baby, and decided to split. Last night, we had a late night in Seattle seeing Yo La Tengo. Hopefully for the baby’s sake, he’ll take this latter outing to heart because I can assure that he’ll be hearing a lot of it in the future without the buffer of mom’s belly.
As I type this, Stefanie sits next to me crocheting as we fly high over the country on our way to Oklahoma for a long weekend visit to my parents’. In an attempt to ease some of wichbaby mama’s flying anxiety, we settled in to watching a soothing episode of the relaxing TV show Breaking Bad.
I’ve been wracking my brain trying to think of what to eat once we land, but the old home turf is basically openly hostile toward vegetarians. Sometimes it seems like even the ketchup has beef broth in it. Luckily, once we make it to Durant in earnest, my mom will do a nice job of making sure we have enough to eat. Undoubtedly, this will require a trip to Super Wal-Mart, where I’m always amazed to find so many meatless foods. Maybe my parents call in favors when I visit and Wal-Mart workers wheel in a cart of Morningstar nuggets and Soyrizo. Of course, I guess it’s possible they might not..
p.s. I posted this as we taxied in!
i keep getting chastised for not drinking enough milk/not eating enough protein or vegetables. there aren’t enough hours in the day to eat the amount of food it seems i’m being directed to eat. now i know how poor amy kochalka felt:
www.americanelf.com
love,
stefanie
