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November 12, 2007
Countdown, 21 days: 37 weeks
So, another milestone I never expected to make! And I think or hope this is the last one! The twins are definitely full term at this point, and should be healthy and ready to meet the real world. I should know a little more after the OB appointment this afternoon.
For some reason, Tim and I were talking yesterday about how fun it will be to have kids at Christmas time. And I realized that I've never blogged about our fun Christmas traditions. Some come from my childhood, some from his, a lot from his bachelor days, and some we've created together. A lot revolve around life at Pittsburgh, so we're going to have to adapt them for when the kids get older--or just drag the kids up to Pittsburgh! Tim has a really special way of creating Christmas traditions without everything having to revolve around materialism. Some of our traditions:
*making gingerbread cookies and/or houses, and inviting people over to decorate them with us
*digging out Tim's extensive collection of Christmas specials (including Charlie Brown) and watching them over the weeks leading to Christmas
*cutting down our own Christmas tree
*listening to Tim's LP of Handel's Messiah
*going to the Strip District to get cheese and crackers and special Christmas coffee to have on hand as we have people over on Sunday evenings and other times
*ice skating and looking at elaborate gingerbread house (oftentimes Steelers themed!) made by local students at PPG Place
*rounding up the highschoolers (and others in the church) to sing Christmas carols at a local nursing home
--Later today, I want to update this with a diagram of the elaborate pillow structure that I create each night to help me sleep. Right now, I need no less than six pillows to create the pillow fortress!
PS I was wondering who all was reading this! I know some old friends and family have started reading the blog, so if you can, why don't you just click on the comments link and say hi!
Movie of the Day: Ken Burns' The War. Thought it was an appropriate choice for Veteran's Day. Tim and I have mixed reactions to it. He thinks it's too narrow in scope. I'm fascinated by the social history approach, an approach I studied for the chapter in my dissertation that I'm currently working on. More on that later!
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Austina's little sister reads you blog! Can't wait for your little ones to get here.
Posted by: Sarah-Ginny at November 12, 2007 6:20 PM
JoAnna,
You were my practical service supervisor at Covenant. I have been following your blog since you starting blogging about the pregnancy because it is so fascinating! (My husband is a twin, my cousins are twins, my aunt and uncle are twins. I have a vested interest in twins).
Best wishes.
Lisa
Posted by: Lisa Roerdink at November 12, 2007 8:07 PM
Hi JoAnna - It is Elizabeth Stacey from Covenant. I am excited to read more about the twins. It is so exciting.
Posted by: elizabeth stacey at November 12, 2007 8:11 PM
Beth--how wonderful to hear from you!! I never knew that you read our blog.
Wow, Lisa, it has been a long time!! And you really do have a lot of twin history!
Posted by: Jo at November 13, 2007 10:55 PM
We are following your news and looking forward to the arrival of your two fun kids. Joya says she will go out and do jumping-jacks to make sure she gets her kid out on time, after hearing about you carrying all that babyness.
Posted by: Jonathan and Joya at November 15, 2007 9:42 AM