History in the making

As Kris and I watched the election results on TV last night, I realized that the baby has actually had an eventful gestational period in the womb! The 2008 Olympics were in China this summer, the stock market fiasco occured, an interesting world series happend just a few weeks ago, and now we have elected Mr. Obama to the presidency! It has been a memorable 34 weeks in our nation's history! I hope I will remember all of the events, as well as our personal history from this pregnancy, which has also been quite eventful!

On another note, I have realized that I am getting to the point where people are starting to worry I might go into labor any day now - or at least I get that impression. Though with 6 weeks to go, I personally am not worried, nor have we even gone to lamaz class yet to even know what to do when it does happen! But other people, meaning mostly coworkers and people coming for meetings at work, have suprized me with their reactions on their face when they see me - or more like it - my belly - enter the room or come out of the elevator! Yes, I know my belly is growing - and it is supposed too!! But I sometime feel like a freak in the room becuase of some of the reactions. Another thing that is interesting, is that when I am at work, I try to be as professional as possible and focus on the projects, however, people (applicants and consultants ) always want to talk about when I am due, how life is going to change, how I am feeling, bla bla bla. On one hand, it is truely kind and endeering that people want to "comfort" me by giving their support and always a story on how wonderful parenthood is - and I truely do respect that and I really can't wait for my own experience to be able to say the same thing (or I wouldn't have wanted to get pregnant in the first place!) But on the other hand, the daily update is becoming more like a chore than small talk. I don't want to sound like I don't care, or that I am not always thinking about this little muchkin growing inside me, but there's more to me than just my belly! Anyway, with just a few weeks left, I'm sure I can tolerate it for just a little while longer.