The Bookish Girl

Wow, Class of 2005 you are gorgeous ~ 2009-02-12

Posted in General by Bookish Wendy at 10:12 pm.
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Hi.  We’re all sick here.  Have been for weeks now.  No exaggeration.  First the stomach flu (which I escaped) and now various forms of upper respiratory infections/viruses.  Rob’s got it the worst – pneumonia.  Anyone want a poor sick toddler?  Poor baby hasn’t been to daycare in almost two weeks.  Enough about that though, if I talk about it too much I just cry.

We are officially in the home stretch of pregnancy.  Whew!  This has been a relatively easy one (as was my trip with Ms. S).  Aside from the toddler wrangling and the unemployment (Rob’s still without work) and the lightheadedness it was/is a breeze.  My midwife helped me to feel the head and identify all of the body parts of the little Mister last week.  That was super cool.  For example – right now I have an ass in my ribs.  Somehow, when you know what it is it is so much less annoying.  I’ll be at 34 weeks Saturday.  Sophia was delivered at 37 weeks, so there is a chance this pregnancy will go the same route.  We still have a wall to put up in our house (creating a bedroom), furniture to buy, and all the infant stuff to put together oh, and there is still that small problem of a name!  But I am not panicking.  We were TOTALLY unprepared for Sophia (our first outing post-birth was to T-get to buy a changing pad!) and everything turned out fine.

The real reason why I am here is to congratulate the Knitting Blog Class of 2005.  Knitsings put together this is a really cool summary of how things have changed and who is still where/when/how.  When I scroll through that list I realize how many of those authors have impacted my life in a considerable way.  How many I call friends and how lucky I am to be a part of this community.  How glad I am that I joined it when I did (September 2004), when it was still small and somewhat penetrable.  Gone are the days where we would all hunker down in Claudia’s living room.  The community is just too big, in a good way though – there are some amazing people out there.  And, I for one, am super glad that we are what we are.

While I do not blog as much as I used to I do still knit, quite a bit actually.  I miss writing but my life is pretty much out of control right now and I have to let go a bit in certain places – this is one of them.  I do still read all of you.  It’s my respite, my calm, my connection…so, thanks for keeping on!

ps- Thanks to Cara for pointing out the post.  Mwah.

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10 Comments »

  1. Cara says:

    Dude – we’ve had the plague here as well. It actually been the worst for me and oh my god nursing through a stomach flu and two weeks later a fever/respiratory flu is KILLAH! I feel for Rob.

    I’m glad the pregnancy is going well and I look forward to your adventures with two. Hopefully I’ll be in the same boat next year. ;-)

    Miss you! Love you! Bloggings not the same without you!

    Comment - February 12, 2009 : 11:12 pm

  2. Stephanie says:

    Good to hear from you – sorry to hear you’re all sick, but happy to know the gestation of #2 is going well. And the name thing? I’ll take your lead and try not to panic!

    Comment - February 12, 2009 : 11:18 pm

  3. Carole says:

    I’m so sorry you’ve all been sick. Fingers crossed that all goes well in these last few weeks. I miss you guys.

    Comment - February 13, 2009 : 7:58 am

  4. Vicki says:

    Oh no. Sending buckets of get well wishes. That is a pretty cool list and interesting research!

    Comment - February 13, 2009 : 9:22 am

  5. claudia says:

    An ass in your ribs…..what an image! I hope you all get healthy (and employed!) soon.

    Comment - February 13, 2009 : 12:18 pm

  6. Kristen says:

    interesting blog stats. I had to go back and look – I started in Nov ‘04, ended in July ‘07. I still miss it, and need to pick up and run with the new one, but it doesn’t have the same feel anymore. I am every so grateful for the friends I met through blogging – I had no idea it’d take me where it did. I love helping moms find body parts – it does make it much more real. :) I hope you’re feeling 100% soon!

    Comment - February 13, 2009 : 8:51 pm

  7. janna says:

    Oh, no! Get well soon — especially poor Rob!

    The Class of 2005 list is interesting. I started my blog in January 20006, and a lot of the blogs listed there are ones that influenced me to start.

    Comment - February 14, 2009 : 11:34 am

  8. Dani in NC says:

    You seem to be caught in the Catch-22 of blogging. When you have plenty of time to blog, you have nothing to write about. Once you start doing a lot of cool things, you don’t have time to blog about them.

    Comment - February 14, 2009 : 6:47 pm

  9. sandy says:

    Lots of good health wishes coming your way. There is nothing more exhausting than being a mother. Except for being a Mom AND a mom to be at the same time~
    xxoxo

    Comment - February 15, 2009 : 3:23 pm

  10. caro says:

    We are seriously a kick ass blogging class. Yeah! Kinda freaks me out that it will be 5 years for me come April. Gah! (Hope y’all are feeling better now)

    Comment - February 18, 2009 : 6:30 pm

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