Wading Thru My Head

saturday morning i was called to my first homebirth as a doula. about 2 weeks ahead of the due date which means if the money is there i might be able to go to the mma conference OVERNIGHT in traverse city. i would be excited for the conference but just as exciting is a night of undisturbed sleep. i cannot even imagine.
satuday morning at 530am i was called by the dad and i was nursing ella. the situation was as such that i needed to get out of the house and on the road asap (she was wanting to push). i whispered to ella that she was done with "mea mea" she rolled over. as soon as i started getting dressed she woke and was wimpering on the bed in protest of my preparations to leave. i crawled back into bed with her and nursed her for a minute then resorted to explaining to her why i had to leave in a desperate effort to get out of the house and keep donn from having to deal with a screaming and crying 2 year old. i looked her int he eye and told her that mama had to go bye bye. she shook her head no. i told her that there is a baby coming and i had to go help her come here. ella looked at he and replied "oh nay, bebe. oh nay." (ok, baby. ok.)and put her head down. donn told me later that she just went back to bed and even let donn sleep in a bit.
the birth was wonderful and i was only about 10 minutes late to my 10 am consult in a2. nice way to go into an interview, eh? luckily i wore black since a bulk of my morning was spent empting out a bloody birth pool. bucket by bucket. i loved it.
donn and i went to see claudia quintet at the kerrytown concert house on friday evening. the first time i saw them i was 6 months pregnant with ella. they are amazing to see. and tonight we are going to see kaki king at the ark. AND last night although i only had a bout 3-4 house sleep the night before i met some old friends at the corner brew and had a great time even though one of them is in the middle of a divorce and that was a lot of the conversation but then i moved to birth and birth experiences. we even popped over to a bar on cross but felt old and out of place when we got there. they moved onto the tap room but i decided to go home at 1am. i was done.
oh also yestrday afternoon my inlaws- mom, dad, sister, sister and husband and nephew. came down for the afternoon. it was the best time i have ever had with them . spent most of the afternoon laughing. we decided that along with the walker xmess party that we are also having the stroud family christmas at our house. that will be one crazy weekend. but i love being married into a bigger family especially now that donns sisters and m yself get along like 3 peas in a pod. i love having "sisters". its a new one for me and something i have always wanted.
this is turning out to be an absolutely lovely weeknd and its not even over yet.