Wednesday, March 04, 2009

11 weeks

I'm 11 weeks pregnant today, and the baby is becoming more real. My friend Amy asks if it is called Relen or Hoss, but Ross just wants to name it once - he's not even amenable to nonsense names like Kermit the Tadpole, or "the Critter", and he especially doesn't like Hoss.

I've been quite nauseous this past week - if I wait too long to eat, which happens unfortunately often in the rush of teaching and preparing tests and answering student questions - I begin to get very uncomfortable and feel quite ill. I'm hoping that will be over within the next couple of weeks. I'm also very tired at the moment but that's a combination of the teaching pressures as well as the pregnancy.

My students have a test week this week, so I had one class writing on Saturday morning, and the other class writing last night. No more classes this week, so I've taken the rest of the week off and Ross and I are down in Maritzburg for the first time since coming home in September. We left at 6:30 - after the students started writing - and got down here at 12:30 this morning, which is probably the other reason I'm tired. I'm looking forward to a couple of days of playing with my niece Ruby and nephews Martin and Jo, and talking a lot with family, while Ross has some meetings in town. It's very nice to be back home.