@SA: I dropped by your site; seems like you have a vested interest in a healthier lifestyle as well!

@Cristin: I hope you do find time to go back to training. Even though my household is very calm right now, I still find it to be incredibly relaxing to take that time to myself, somewhere outside of my “normal” environment.

@Holly: I will have to pick up more! I promised myself only ONE book for baby on that trip — but my husband wants to do more shopping this week

@existere: I really love bookstores too :] I promised myself to go to the library this week coming up though, and of course my midwife’s office has more books in it that I can borrow as well, so maybe I can keep my pregnancy book budget down. It was difficult to pick up only one book for myself though!

@badmommymoments: Thank you! I am pretty thrilled about the whole pregnancy thing and just getting more excited every day. I was a big reader when I was a kid & am hoping to instill the same in my family, so I will have to learn to keep book snobbery out of my mind as well!

Check out the Maisy books too (Lucy Cousins). I didn’t think too much of them at first, especially since they don’t have many pages and the wording borders on lame, but both of my daughters loved them when they first became interested in books. That was my first lesson on how not to be a snob about kid’s books.

I still have much to learn…

PS: Congratulations on your pregnancy. You have so many wonderful things ahead of you!

Glad to hear the gym is working out (heh!) and your personal trainer is neither too soft on you nor too torturous.

That is the best book. We have two copies of it.