Bursting at the Seams Giveaway

So, I am due in less than a month! July 17th to be precise. We are all getting very excited and I am feeling very, very, very pregnant. I have started packing the hospital bags (one for me, baby, and one for Cordelia). I am starting to read through the dreaded labor portion of the birthing books and going, oh yeah...that's gonna hurt.

More than anything though I am just getting so excited to meet this wiggly baby who has hiccups several times a day. I want to hold this little person in my arms and marvel at the miracle of life. I can hardly wait. I am excited to be exhausted from sleepless nights. I am anxious to watch Cordelia interact and to see Eric hold this baby. Oh, it is going to be amazing.

I have started having random people guess the due date and I decided that you should probably get in on the fun. Why not have a little giveaway? So, I am offering the closest guess a little box of wonders to be shipped as soon as I am able to get it together after the baby is born. How to enter:

In the comments section please leave your guess:

Guess the date and time (the time will be used in the event of a tie break). The closest guess without going over will win the box of goodies from your truly! Good luck!

**Hints**

• I am feeling like I won't be late, but that may be the wishful thinking of the extremely pregnant.

• With Cordelia I was given 2 due dates (had 2 doctors as we moved mid-pregnancy) and she was born on the 2nd due date.
• The doctor thinks this little baby is already in position.

When it looks like this....

When it looks like this outside it is time to...



Watch the flakes accumulate on sidewalks that just melted off yesterday, knowing that this recent storm will surely melt away in the next few days. Late season snowstorms like this aren't really a big deal, the days are longer, the snow melts quickly---receding to the shadowy corners to lurk and brood (I am big on animating the inanimate, snow probably doesn't actually brood).

Take a trip to the library for toddler story time. We haven't been in quite some time and I think Cordelia will enjoy it. Always a little awkward to be in a room full of women and babies. I am not sure why. Although I think the most awkward thing is to be in a room full of pregnant women. Do you know what I am talking about? Makes me very uneasy and I am a pregnant woman. Probably won't be the case at library time anyway.

Drink some hot chocolate soy milk. I drink fortified soy milk, it has Omega 3s and I pretend that the hot chocolate soy milk is purely for fetal brain development.


Go out on the porch and contemplate a romp in the snow, deciding to snooze inside instead. OK, that was just Bumblebee. She stood on our covered patio and then sighed before coming in and harrumphing (apparently spell check agrees that is an actual word) into her bed.

Deliver freshly baked cookies to friends around town, before the roads get bad. I cannot be trapped in this house with a mountain of chocolate chip cookies, even if they are vegan they aren't exactly a health food and I have a wicked sweet tooth.


Admire the green growing things that promise spring will soon be here. I will surely admire a gardening book or two while Cordelia plays at some point in the day.

Art and work during nap time. I have a final touch on a piece for the show that opens Thursday and then I am all set. I will also check in on my students and do a little work.

What do you do with yourself on snow days?

***Don't forget to leave a comment here with your gender guess and a chance to win the giveaway!

The Other Biggest Little Thing EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Due mid July 2012