40 Weeks and Goin' Strong

Maria is 40 weeks along. Actually, earlier she reminded me that today is the beginning of her 41st week of pregnancay. Officially, Peter-Marie is late. My dad would say that's a familiar trait in Sandstrum women. My father always said that his father always said that his mother would be late getting ready if the house was burning down. Maria might argue that Peter-Marie is not a Sandstrum, but a Romero. But genes travel well through different last names.

Maria said she is at the "comedy of errors" stage of her pregnancy. She said the other day she was chopping onions, dropped half of it on the floor, and it took her 20 minutes to pick up the onion and wipe the floor. "It's like carrying a medicine ball around, and every time you sit down you feel like you're sitting on the baby's head."

And she reports that the contractions she was having intermittently a day and a half ago, have ended. More later.