My Weekend

Right now I have one doula client due...8 days ago. She thinks she will be pregnant forever. At this point, I am thinking she may be right. I was hoping things would get started this weekend with her, but it was not to be.

So today we went to a Healthy Halloween event hosted by the library. Excuse me, I meant to say The Library. East Brunswick takes their Library Very Seriously, and is referred to in all brochures, literature, paperwork as The Library. So let me try that again... We went to a Healthy Halloween event hosted by The Library. (much better) Because when you think of Halloween, the first thing you think of is Healthy, I'm sure. They had a bouncy house, a haunted house, animals, raffles, pumpkin decorating, apples, cheese, smoothies, granola bars. My 6yo wanted to know where the candy was, because to her, Halloween = Candy. She wasn't getting the whole healthy emphasis.

80% of our time was spent waiting in line, listening to my 6yo tell me how booooring it was to wait in line, when you weren't even getting CANDY at the end. I know, honey, I know. That's what you get when you have a Free Community Event at The Library - lots of waiting in line. We were waiting in lines that we had no idea what we were waiting in line for. One of them was to check your blood sugar. The 14yo realized, too late, that this involved a finger stick. I could see what she was thinking, "Thanks a LOT mom for this FUN day of waiting in line and getting my finger stuck!"

In other news, I just took the Lamaze exam on Friday and spent the weekend decompressing from that. I just want to sit and read a junky novel that has nothing to do with childbirth. And I want my pregnant client to go into labor. Although I imagine she wants that a whole lot more than I do....

Have a great week!