Hey friends, I’ve been a little all over the place with these emails the past few weeks. First I was down hard with the flu, and ever since I’ve gotten better, my pregnancy has gotten a lot harder. It’s literally harder to move. Every single day, it gets a little bit more difficult to get up, to move around (especially side to side), and it takes me a lot longer to do all the things that I need to do to stay human, keep healthy, and grow this tiny human.
She’s due in four weeks, so the doctors have me primed and ready to go. She could decide that tomorrow’s the day (she best leave Super Bowl Sunday alone), but we’re packed and ready for whenever she decides to make her arrival.
In addition to that, because of my “advanced maternal age” I’m at the doctors office each week for a 2-3 hour appointment just to make sure that everything is going according to plan. So far the tiny human has been doing amazing and everything is going perfectly—and I’d love to keep it that way for as long as possible, so I’ve had to cut back on a few things, including sitting at my computer in the afternoons once it gets too uncomfortable.
I’ll have an email out next week with my full maternity leave plans (these Daily Pages emails will stop for a few months, as I personally won’t be doing the live show and it won’t be recorded—although if you’ve got access to the Daily Pages Live show, there will absolutely be folks hanging out and creating). I’ve got some emails scheduled for while I’m away; but I’ll mostly be taking the spring off to figure out what life looks like with a tiny human.
All that to say, I am sorry that I’ve been a little MIA lately, and I’m definitely going to be more MIA going forward. If you’d like to keep in touch while I’m on maternity leave, or just check out how things are going with the babe, you can subscribe to my private family blog.
It might take me a couple days to get you on the list (I manually approve every single person), but I make sure to go through the list before I send out a new post. It’s the only way that I’ll be sending out updates about the family for the next few months. It is so much easier than a shared photo album, or trying to text message every single person in my phone (and then invariably missing someone and hurting their feelings). So I’d love it if you joined us and kept up with me and Jeff and the baby while I’m away.
Technique of the Day
For today’s page, I wanted to make something pretty easy—I have to keep alternating between sitting and standing, because neither is comfortable to do for more than 5-10 minutes at a time.
I grabbed a sheet of patterned paper from a 6x6 paper pad, added it to the right hand side and then kind of just sat there for a few minutes figuring out what to do. Since all the days are messed up in my head, I didn’t even realize it was Thursday and I could have just done a Thursday3—instead I took some hot pink masking tape, dropped down as many lines as fit on the page, and then did some right now journaling (basically the exact same thing lol).
Almost everything on the list is baby or pregnancy related, since that’s my entire life right now—and I wanted to get a bunch of it down before this part of life goes by and I totally forget everything that happened.
Supply List
Paper: Studio Calico (discontinued)
Tape: Blick
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