Imagine me and you.

As you may have read on Jonathan's blog, he's been left with some extra responsibilities as of late. The Birth Center people were a bit alarmed by a relatively high blood pressure reading last Friday and again on Monday, so they've been reminding me of the importance of rest as much as possible. That leaves Jonathan to pick up around the house and get to all of the neglected tasks.

We haven't packed our bags for the labor and birth. We haven't washed the diapers. We haven't given the mortgage lender everything they need for processing the loan and such. We haven't bathed the stinky dog, vacuumed the stairs, scrubbed the guest bathroom, gone grocery shopping... And that's just what I could come up with off the top of my head. So Jonathan is slowly chipping away at the to-do list and I'm trying to keep myself in a reclined position when I get home from long days of work and school.

So far, everything is really fine health-wise. It's expected that blood pressure will rise in the last month of pregnancy, and since I have a history of hypertension mine just rose a bit more than others I guess. They did some bloodwork to see if I had any other markers of preeclampsia and the bloodwork came out just fine. I don't have any swelling, headaches, spotty vision, etc. Tomorrow I go back to UNC for another ultrasound and then to the Birth Center for the 37-week check-up. I'm actually kinda hoping that they check for dilation/effacement/station just so I can know, but I have a feeling that there really won't be anything yet.

But I've just been thinking this morning about how lucky I am to have Mr. Jonathan around. He tells me to lie down and he does his best to clean up and do all the little things that I ask him to do all the time. I'm trying to enjoy these last couple weeks we have as just us. Pretty soon I'll have different types of aches and pains and we'll both be exhausted and overwhelmed and everything will change. It's a good thing we've had a decade to build our memories and relationship before starting this next chapter.