No Baby Yet. But At Least It's Gorgeous Outside.

Yet another day of lounging around trying to distract myself from my huge bloated body and the fact that there's still no baby yet. Got up early with the kid (who in typical 4 year old fashion seems to have recovered nicely from whatever the hell was wrong with him yesterday) and got him off to school, noticing on the way there and back how the cherry and magnolia tree flowers are starting to fade but the leaves on all the other trees are finally budding, and the early bulbs are blooming like crazy in everyone's yards. Came home and puttered on the computer for awhile (posted a new novel chapter to Critters for the first time in nearly a year), and did a few chores. Mom came over around noon and we hung out here for awhile and then went out to a lovely leisurely late lunch, then from there out for a nice slow walk (yes, supposedly that's one of those things that helps jumpstart labor) around the wetlands bird preserve out past McInnis golf club. Oh. My. God it was gorgeous out. The sun was bright but mild, the temp was probably low to mid-70s, there was a slight breeze, birds were singing everywhere, weedy wildflowers were blooming along the pathways and everything was fresh and green smelling. Fabulous, this Springtime green season here in Marin. I just love it.

(See, Isaac? It's a great time to be born. Now hurry up and get here.)

Spent a fairly low key evening playing "Let's Go Fishin'" with Eli and Grammy and doing the usual evening wrangle. Talked on the phone a bit, did some blogsurfing, and now I'm yawningly tired so it's off to bed to see if I can continue to store up some energy, just in case Isaac deigns to put in an appearance any time soon. (Course with my luck it'll be sometime in the middle of the night when he finally does...so all the more reason to actually go to bed early.)