T minus 28 days and counting...

Today marks four weeks from my due date.  Normally, I try to play a mental game where I pretend I'm still in my second trimester right up until the last week or so.  This time around, I had to give up that game weeks ago!

You see, usually June in Seattle is referred to as "June-uary," due to the cool, gloomy, rainy weather we typically receive.  After an unusually warm May, I was especially looking forward to a return to gray and chilly.  Instead, we got the hottest June EVER (no exaggeration!).  Lucky me.  We're on track for the hottest July as well.  Yippee.

I don't mean to complain (too much).  I get that my situation could be much, much worse.  In fact, I just realized this evening that my mom had July, August, and September babies, and we lived where the summer temps regularly reached 110... and had NO a/c.  

Additionally, I'm completely willing to take all this and more for the privilege of having this wonderful, very much wanted baby.  Yet I also readily admit that all this heat with no air conditioning is pretty miserable.  I miss the rain!!

When I was pregnant with Graham, Seattle also had record-breaking heat and the longest ever stretch of no rain.  Apparently, when I get pregnant in the summer, I cause hot weather and droughts.  I apologize.

There are some things I'll miss about being pregnant once our baby girl comes.  There's something magical and precious about feeling a baby move inside you and in knowing you're creating a new life.  Additionally, my skin and hair look better when I'm pregnant.  

However, I keep telling Mark to remind me in the future, that there are PLENTY of things I won't miss.  I'm to the "very uncomfortable" stage, and I really am counting down the days till our sweet baby arrives.  Of course, that does not at all mean that I'm ready for her to come.  I did make a list yesterday of all the things I need to do before her birth...that's progress, right?