After Christmas with the extended family and then Rich’s parents visiting us for another few days, I really needed a few days to just be alone and get even more sleep than usually. I also realize that I am just way faster exhausted these days, now that I am more than 34 weeks pregnant. I guess it makes sense that in many countries I would now start maternity leave. And it makes me appreciate even more that I can just stay at home now because the U.S. only has a pretty crappy maternity leave policy. I have heard several stories of women working even on the day when their labor started. So yay for our comfortable situation!
As for the start of this year, as a hopefully good omen I won the Broadway lottery yesterday. So we got two tickets for “Six” for $60 for tonight. We heard friends raving about this musical and really wanted to see it as well. I participated in the lottery many times without winning, but this time we got lucky. It also always makes me think: What if this is the last show I/we get to see for a while?! Which reminds to finally book tickets for “Matrix” in the movies this coming week … cause who knows.
|Watched| Küchenschlacht, Kitz, The Witcher, Das Traumschiff, Emily in Paris; Come from Away
|Read| Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes, Aru Shah and the City of Gold, The Cat in the Hat
|Listened to| not so much
|Done| spent time with Rich’s parents who visited, went to see the Broadway musical “Come from Away”, needed a few days to decompress, celebrated a pleasant and quiet New Year with Rich
|Eaten| Christmas leftovers, beef stew, jelly filled donuts, Turkish yogurt soup, eggs Benedict
|Drunk| water, coffee, hot apple cider, alcohol free wine
|Thought| wow, we are most likely only 6 weeks away from giving birth (and definitely less than 8)
|Been happy| that 2021 is over, when we won cheap tickets in the Broadway lottery for musical “Six”
|Laughed| when Lotti lay down on my belly to take a little nap
|Desired| a few things, but nothing important:
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|Bought| I ordered a few pairs of shoes from a sale
|Clicked| I love The Everygirl’s monthly desktop backgrounds: Free, Downloadable Tech Backgrounds for January 2022!; now that we have a shelf full of baby books, I am interested in more: Children’s Books We’re Loving; yay, lucky us … not: What to Expect When You’re Expecting: Supply Chain Issues