Tales From The Couch

(23w3d)

I have decided that I am probably (hopefully!) in for several weeks of this bed rest thing.  I still am not very swollen (or is that a result of my faithful daily dips in the pool?) and feel fine.  Once I got over the initial shock of Dr. Peri's edict, I calmed down and I am now quite zen about the whole thing.

For someone on bed rest, I have had quite the eventful week.

Matt returned home last Wed evening to find 1/2 inch of standing water in the laundry.

I, of course, was caught unaware as I was, per doctor's orders, firmly implanted on the couch (see, I'm a good girl!)

Repairman the next day said not only were we leaking water (really?), but the transmission was blown (Oh, so that was the weird sound it had been making for the previous week?)  The washer was several years old and the repair costs would be as much as we initially paid for the thing.  So Thurs evening, Matt spent a few hours picking out a new washer.

And anyone who knows Matt can guess it was quite the gadget.  

All digital, extra-capacity (triplets!) and smart as a whip.

It worked great.

For the first two loads.

Then it stopped working and while beeping incessantly, blinked error messages. 

No matter what we did to placate said appliance, it mocked us with the beeping and blinking.

So today another repairman showed up and after a while discovered that during assembly, a wire was not connected well.

One little wire.

We now have a super-smart washer humming along in the laundry room.

If it continues, I think I'm in love :-)

Yesterday was my birthday as well as our 14th anniversary.  Yes, I got married on my birthday... It's a long story and don't get my mom started :-).  We celebrated my birthday yesterday and will celebrate our anniversary this weekend.  It wasn't my most active birthday, but enjoyable nonetheless.  Of course, like a good little patient I spent the majority of the day on the couch.  

BUT... I did actually leave the house.

To get my allergy shots and have my blood drawn.

Woohoo!

I felt like an inmate that had escaped from the asylum :-).

Before the whole bed rest thing Matt and I planned on having dinner at our fave sushi restaurant (no worries since prego I only eat the COOKED fish.  Promise).  Since that clearly wasn't on the list of Dr. Peri's approved activities, Matt was nice enough to get the sushi to go and we had a nice little dinner at home just the two of us.

Matt's family came by later in the evening for dessert.

They brought over homemade angel food cake along with berries and homemade whipped cream. 

YUM!!!

It was fun to have everyone including all the nieces and nephews over.

Today, besides the blessed repairman who restored our latest gadget to working order, the local coordinator for an au pair agency we have signed up with (we are debating domestic nanny or international au pair) came over to verify that I am, in actuality pregnant and that we do have a separate room for an au pair to stay in.  Apparently they occasionally have men sign up that don't actually have children.  Creepy.

Run-in scheduled with Dr. Peri tomorrow afternoon.  Here's hoping for a good blood pressure and non-protein spilling kidneys.

I have my hospital bag packed just in case :-).