Monday dispatches

Somehow it is Monday again.  It's difficult for me to not quantify my life stuff as related to being pregnant, but I imagine no one came here to read a pregnancy blog either.  The main numbers running through my head are:

5 weeks to go until the babies are evicted

3.5 weeks left of work

3 weeks to Isaac's birthday party (my last planned social engagement)

My maternity cover at work is doing amazing, which is exciting, helpful, and makes me feel a bit left out and sad.  It's the first time I've ever worried that a cover will be better than me... because I strategically didn't have covers for my last two mat leaves.  I just gave work to already busy people who I didn't have to train, and everyone was very happy when I came back.

In really random news, the other morning this grew from one of my house plants:

Umm, what are those mushrooms?  How did they get there?  How did they grow overnight?  I didn't realize how creepy mushrooms are but they are, in fact, very creepy.

Today I did 2 hours of walking, which is the most movement I've done for a while. I'm supposed to have a walking lunch date with a friend tomorrow but the weather is looking particularly dire: 

None of my rain jackets currently close and I am so close to never being pregnant again that I'm fully resisting trying to get a jacket.  Sadly my husbands jackets don't fit me either.  I considered wearing a bin bag but decided that's a step too far.

Yesterday I finished Happy Place by Emily Henry.  I'm not 100% on it... I did enjoy it but also maybe I wasn't so much into the lovey-dovey "I can't live without you" narrative.  But I can't really blame Henry for that since that is what she writes.  Also, there were 6 characters and I couldn't always tell them apart until the end.  This may be because I mostly read the book at night when I couldn't sleep, which meant a lot of stop and start 2-4am reading slots.

Today has not been a focused day in work after a very poor night of sleep.  Hoping for a better night of sleep tonight.  Although I am close to the end in work I am not done yet and I have things I want to do (and want to do well) before I log off.  

The end of work may be nigh but I would like to feel good about the work I do until then