Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Patrick has been off of work for the last two weeks – Hooray! We have been playing the waiting game. We have been getting last minute things done around the house (hanging pictures, grocery shopping, making food to freeze, etc). We have also been exploring the area, but we are also taking the time to relax and enjoy each other understanding these are the last weeks of our family of two.
We have officially finished the nursery – mattress in the crib with the sheets – lights hung – stickers stuck – pictures hung – clothes arranges, etc. We also finally put the car seat base in the car – so now we have everything ready for the hospital.
We have also finished hanging all the pictures in our house and Patrick finished our bed frame. He did a great job.
I took Patrick on a walking tour of downtown Menlo Park – the same one that our friends have been taking me on while strolling with their kids. It was fun for him to get to know the area and go into stores and explore.
We have now been to the Beach! We went to Half Moon bay one day for lunch and a short walk of the beach. We met a couple in our birthing class that recommended a restaurant called Chez Shea (“an eclectic eatery”). It is a really cute town, but not really a beach town. It is more like a small little farming town that is on the beach, but there is actually a “beach” area (sand to sit and walk on).
There were a couple of fun festive gatherings the week of
Christmas – Chili and movie night, holiday card decorating, Christmas Eve
service at MPPC, Christmas Day at church and dinner with friends, etc.
On Christmas we slept in, opened our presents (family had sent some), ate french toast casserole and then skyped with both of our families. It was a nice relaxing day, but so strange to not be with our families. We had a church service that afternoon (3pm) and then ate dinner with a few couples from church. No one wanted to cook (one couple had just got back in town the day before, one was leaving the next day, I am pregnant, etc) so we decided to order Christmas dinner from Draeger's (a fancy grocery store in Downtown Menlo Park). It was delicious and we all decided it tasted better because none of us had to cook. It was a very nice day - different from any other Christmas we have ever had.
Our friends Melody and Brett took us to San Fran and showed
us around some of their favorite places including The Mission and The Ferry
Building. The Mission is the
hipster part of San Fran – we got coffee from a place called Ritual. It is a pour over coffee shop and it
was really good. We got lunch at
the Ferry Building at a burger place called Gotts and then gelato for
dessert. It was a really fun day.
We have been trying to take LOTS of walks to encourage this
baby to come out J One day
we decided to walk to the Stanford mall with Melody and Brett. We were walking around for about 3
hours and still no baby.
On my due date we had a game night with some friends and
played games until late that night.
We discovered a new favorite game.
It is called Partners and apparently can only be purchased in Denmark. We had a great time – it was nice to
take our mind off of the fact that I am still pregnant.
We rang in the New Year with the couples from our community
group. We celebrated on East Coast
time so they could get their children to sleep. Honestly we didn’t stay up until midnight either – we
technically have a kid too.
I have an appointment with my Doctor on January 3 to plan a
date for induction if our little girl has not arrived by then. Until then, we continue to wait….
