bright side, briiiight side

I got to go to Chaos's awesome monthly locals-with-babies potluck and be surrounded by babies! Babies of many delightful ages and stages. Yay, babies. A little bit envy-inducing... I want to meet *my* baby and start getting to know it - will it have hair? Will it make funny faces? Who is it going to be? But mostly just neat to remember all those different stages and anticipate seeing them again. And then to get to come home and put my big girl to bed with lots of kisses and singing to each other. Almost-three-year-olds are really super awesome.

Also I am finding that this prolonged-brink-of-labor business has a marvelous sharpening effect on my sense of priorities - like, I'm able to make decisions that I normally find completely paralyzing. I was able to get rid of my college lab notebooks, which I've never been able to do because they represented so much time and effort, but, no, useless! Out! And I made some progress on picking out the pictures for our wedding album, which I hadn't touched since, uh, a couple of days before Junie was born, in fact. I guess normal people have this kind of mental clarity all the time, not just at 40.5 weeks pregnant, but hell, whatever, I'm using it while I've got it.