7 QT - It's Almost March!

1)

Tomorrow is the first weekend of March!  Can you believe it?  I just heard we could be getting 18 inches of snow on Monday!  My parents will be coming home from Florida this weekend, and after a month of wonderful warm weather, they need to see some snow {insert evil cackle here}.

2)

You know what else happens in March?  BABY TIME!  While this still feels like the longest pregnancy ever, this 3rd trimester has been very kind to me.  

Here I am blurry at 2 days shy of 37 weeks, accentuating for Grace's pleasure:

Rocking our school's polo shirt because it's casual Friday.

Still no baby name decisions!!!  Help!

3) 

I got a FitBit for my birthday and it's very cool.  

It's a bracelet that tracks your steps, activity minutes, calories, sleep, and flights of stairs climbed.  Yesterday was the first day I wore it all day, and I got 10, 225 steps in.  But, I know I actually did about 1500 more than that because I walked on the treadmill, and the FitBit didn't calculate my mileage accurately.  I'm assuming it's because it's hard to track mileage when you're technically standing in one spot??  It is a great motivator to increase my activity, and I made a couple extra trips to the front office and water cooler just to see my step count go up.

4)

So many posts to read this week via Jen's 7 in 7 challenge.  Here's some good ones:

Stacy had her baby!

Caitlin discusses becoming a working mom.

Rachel's Downton recap.

Sarah celebrated one year of blogging!

Katie explains how she got crunchy (so interesting).

Mary prays for her kid's friends.

And Cari sent me this, which is just awesomeness to the nth degree:

5)

So a few weeks ago, I was feeling pretty stressed out and down in the dumps and just blah.  You know the feeling, right?  Anyway, I started upping my Vitamin D dose (using these drops) and truly started feeling so much better, even my husband noticed.  A coincidence?  I think not.  

When I'm not pregnant I take these, but since I already get Vitamin D in my prenatals, I am just upping the dosage with the drops right now.

6)

I think I might ask the Easter Bunny for this book this year, after reading a review in a health magazine.  I was so good at drinking smoothies before I got pregnancy, and then was really turned off by them during the first trimester and never got back on board.

7)

I'm already talking about Easter and I haven't even mentioned Lent!  Some years I am so motivated during Lent, but I think this Lent is going to be all about painful laboring, recovering, breastfeeding and pumping (yuck!), and sleepless nights.  Don't make me give up chocolate too!  I'm always looking for an out :)

Honestly though, instead of giving something up, I am going to try to include one significant prayerful thing each day - meaning more than grace and morning/bedtime prayers.  I think I am being called to focus on small steps this year and live my vocation more joyfully.  What about you?

Happy 1st Weekend in March!!