2:45 am

2:45 am:

I've spent the last hour lying awake in bed. Trying to decide if "this is labor" or not. This has happened before. I wake up, have a few braxton hicks contractions, then my mind won't fall back to sleep.

It is like that tonight too. Except I had really bad heart burn too. And the more I lay there the more I thought I would either throw up or pass out. Ah-ha! those are my classic pregnancy related "hunger signs."

So now, here I am. It's now 2:49 am, I have just finished up my glass of Ovaltine and I think that I probably won't pass out. I have to wait a while before I head back to bed. That much liquid needs to settle before I sleep on it or I really will throw up.

In pregnancies past I was a die hard instant breakfast girl. I still love it, but HELLO! talk about inflation. Since when does 10 little packets of instant breakfast (no milk even, it's just the powder!) cost almost $6.00?!? Since I'm an addict, do you know what that would cost me a week? Ovaltine is my second string player. When I first got pregnant and I knew I NEEDED something, and I couldn't rationalizing spending more than my future weekly diaper allowance on 10 tiny packets of powder I bought some Ovaltine. (I also got some nesquick because I couldn't be sure that I would like Ovaltine.)

Thank goodness! My second string player has turned out to be my new starting star! (Do you think Ovaltine will pay me for this post?) I miss the variety packages of instant breakfast. I must say I am a sucker for the vanilla flavored.

Well, there you have it folks. It is now 3:05 am and I have tortured you with the ramblings of my middle of the night thoughts quite long enough. My verdict is that no, I am not in labor. I am actually quite happy about that. My mom gets here in less than a week. (Right now it's just a few hours less than a week, but I happen to be counting hours so it's ok.) The kids are smack in the middle of TCAPS (Tennessee State testing) and even though I have night time back ups, I am a bit shy about calling them in the middle of the night.

I really should go to bed now. I promised the kids I would make breakfast every morning of TCAP's. (Per teacher instructions...) Last time this "fake labor" thing happened to me I had super bad pregnant dreams. Do you / did you have those? That is where Jonathon stars in my dream as the villain. Usually I wake up so fuming mad at him that I don't even want to look at him. And usually my dreams play out like some bad tv drama and I wake up right before I have the satisfaction of yelling him down and taking it all out on him. That's why I am so mad when I come to in the morning. I wonder if that will happen tonight. (Just for the record, I am not in any way mad a Jonathon right now *pre-dream time.* We are quite happy right now. His work is a little weird because all of the Japan stuff, but we are great. We even got to go to lunch yesterday. I love lunch dates. I feel like we are cheating they system. No babysitters are involved. I'ts a bit like skipping school...)

3:19 am
I am signing off. Good night all.

8:26am
Still here. No labor, no baby!