Oh Blah Di...

There's nothing like starting a blog to make you realize how mundane your life really is. Stuff happens to us, but is it really worth publishing and making you read it?

Here's an updated photo of Baby Yeager in utero. I'll be 31 weeks on Saturday. She's moving around a lot, and making me feel rather sluggish and out of shape. We have some nice weather the next few days, and I am going to find every excuse possible to be outside, getting some sunshine on my arms, and some exercise.

Here are some recent headlines from the Chicago Branch of the Yeager Family:

1. David and I are waiting with baited breath for Mat's return from Japan so that he can okay the final mixes of the album. David's been working this week on creating a design outline for DiscMakers. All that means that we might actually have a finished CD by mid-May? (Yeah, we were shooting for the end of March, but... life happens.)

2. It costs too much money to hire our friend to paint neat murals on our nursery wall, so I may have to go hunt down some stencils. I'm looking for a Frog Prince type theme. Suggestions on where to find such things would be helpful... I'm not exactly crafty.

3. Yesterday we had a mallard and hen napping in our grass, while a little brown bunny munched the renegade daffodils that have leaked from our garden and started growing in the middle of our lawn. I love spring.

4. It's funny how much better life seems in general once the weather turns warm in Chicago. I'm back in West Chicago once a week, teaching our abstinence curriculum to a group of junior high and high school girls in an after-school program. (The program is located literally across the street from my old elementary school.) It's been good so far - good for my Spanish, and a good break from the office for me. There are only about 7-10 girls participating, some of whom were former students. I figure it's got to be awkward for them to have their 3rd grade teacher sitting across the room from them, talking about sex and abstinence. But they seem to be handling it well, and seem happy to see me. All the students at the center (big and little) are very interested in my pregnancy and always have their hands all over my belly. Anyway, as I left that group last night and headed home, my windows were down, the breeze was balmy, the sun was still bright in the sky... and I marveled at how great everything was. I tell you, winter in Chicago depresses me more than anything. I'm so glad it's warming up. After baby is born, I've decided I'm celebrating summer with a margarita.