This isn't ending up to be the quiet weekend I was hoping for on Friday. Usually one or both of the neighbor girls are gone at their dad's on the weekends, but they've both been here this weekend. They've even sat outside in their yard waiting for us to get back if we're gone. Apparently their mom isn't doing anything with them. Well, she's gone today so they have a babysitter. They're playing inside our house right now after begging all day yesterday to come inside and play. I felt horrible yesterday (more on that in a sec) and the girls were in such awful moods (Cole was crying within a minute of them coming over to play), so I said no. There's just no way I could deal positively with them yesterday, and I'm barely even doing that today. Can you tell I'm in the last days or weeks of a pregnancy?

For lunch yesterday we decided to actually go to a "sit down" restaurant since our chances of doing that and having it be more relaxing with a newborn are pretty slim. The kids all enjoyed it. That, and a couple trips to different stores took up our outside the house time yesterday.

That, along with being up and about all day Friday, really took its toll on me yesterday. The sciatica wasn't any better yesterday, and I was hobbling all over the place. By evening, I was having contractions - some a bit painful - and starting to wonder if I might actually go into labor before my due date. I told Cory I was going to bed early (ended up being around 11, so not much earlier) so I could lie down and either get some sleep if I was indeed going into labor or just have the chance to be still and see if the contractions would stop. The latter happened and I'm doing okay today. I still don't feel the best, and I really hope I can get in to the chiropractor tomorrow. That will make a huge difference, I think, especially with all of the running around this next week. Gosh, I'm hoping that once this baby arrives I'll be in a better mood, too! I haven't looked back over my blog entries, but I just get the feeling that I've been really negative lately. That, and having public schools back in session in 1 1/2 weeks.

Cory's working until 5 or 5:30 today, although if it's slow he may get off earlier. That would be fabulous. We don't have anything planned for tonight, but it'll just be good to have him home. I should try to tackle a LLL letter I have to get sent out, and then I'll be up to date with all of my LLL correspondence.