Oh my ever-loving sandwiches. Look at the calendar. Just look at it. Where in the world did November go? How did we get to Thanksgiving? I feel like I slipped into a wormhole, bonked my head on the side, and now I’m coming to with a nasty wormhole-hangover.
In some kind of prankish turn of the norm, time seems to be speeding up. I always thought ten months of pregnancy (nearly a year, for goodness’ sake!) would seem like an eternity. I was so very wrong as it’s become abundantly clear that ten months is no time at all.
I keep looking into our nursery, surveying the walls that need to be painted, the crib that needs bedding, the clothes that need a dresser, and feel something best compared to panic. Squishy will be here any frigging day now and I shall have to scrounge around for twee little socks to put on his delicious little feet! He won’t be pleased if he comes home to a non-colorful nursery and a naked crib, will he?
Wes assures me we have time. He always looks at my frenzied eyes and backs away slowly to avoid startling me into a rampage, muttering platitudes like, “We have three months. We have plenty of time.”
He does his best to be accommodating, but there’s really only so much one man can do in a weekend and there’s really more than enough Crazy to go around. I’ve kept it contained for a good long while but it’s bursting out from around the seams.
What he doesn’t know is we actually have no time at all. Because of the wormholes. All I know is that if I wake up tomorrow and it’s February and I’m in labor? I will grab a roller and paint that room myself. Then I’ll have a baby. If nothing else, his walls will be painted, gosh dang it.

Alright Alice, stop following that Rabbit, sit down and take a breath. Just don’t sit too near the caterpillar on the mushroom with his hookah. And don’t drink anything in a bottle with the label tied around the neck on a string.
Squishy really won’t care if his walls are painted, just that he has enough food, is warm enough and has clean diapers. You can handle that, right?
-Blanche, Honestly? I think pregnancy is one great big hookah-smoking caterpillar pushing mysterious bottles at you all the time. I’m pretty sure I can handle the basics, but I might not be able to handle the nesting.