The 13th Has Come and Gone and Now We Listen to Music

Sunil's dream/wish/greatest-want-since-he-learned-of-an-Old-Fashioned, my going into labor and giving birth to Eleanor on Friday, June 13th (a full moon), has come and gone. Now we are back to just plain old waiting.

As he un-patiently waited the arrival of the 13th and potentially our first born child, I made a Birth Plan and an L&D playlist. Thanks to the firm I won a $50 iTunes gift card in our Easter egg hunt. I thought I'd lost it a while back, so it was still full of all fifty dollars.

Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Willome for posting that video with James Blake in the background. I "borrowed" this one and worked from there mixing new music with those soothing favorites I already have. I have five and a half hours of music at this time.

The result...with more to add (I've still got $20 on the card and a potential Labor time of 20+ hours):

Tenuousness	3:51	Andrew Bird
Some Surprise	3:18	Gary Lightbody & Lisa Hannigan
Frog on My Toe	3:39	Tori Amos
Ada Plays	3:18	Various
Dirge	3:16	Perfume Genius
I Wish You Love	3:32	Rachael Yamagata
Aria	3:05	Gabriel Yared/Original Soundtrack
Ribbons Undone	4:30	Tori Amos
Pienso en Ti	2:26	Shakira
Winter Song	4:27	Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson
Track 1	6:38	Sigur Rós
All the Wild Horses	3:16	Ray LaMontagne
Track 3	6:33	Sigur Rós
Passing Afternoon	4:03	Iron and Wine
Can I Stay	3:40	Ray LaMontagne
Maria's Death [Rückert Lied No. 5]	3:39	Original Soundtrack
Meet Me by the Water	3:58	Rachael Yamagata
A Gift Of A Thistle	1:38	James Horner: London Symphony Orchestra
Duet	4:01	Rachael Yamagata
Sister Song	2:26	Perfume Genius
Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World	4:53	Original Soundtrack
Elephants Instrumental	1:46	Rachael Yamagata
I. Adagio Sostenuto from Piano Sonata No. 14	4:32	Original Soundtrack
Timshel	2:53	Mumford & Sons
Bagatelle in a Minor for Piano, Woo 59, "Für Elise"	2:56	Original Soundtrack
Have a Little Faith	3:54	Michael Franti & Spearhead
Elysium	2:42	Original Soundtrack
No Woman No Cry	7:09	Bob Marley
What a Wonderful World	2:24	Louis Armstrong
Three Little Birds	3:02	Bob Marley
Great Escape	2:09	Moby
Prospero's Speech	3:23	Loreena McKennitt
Full Circle	5:57	Loreena McKennitt
Love Me Like a Song (featuring Willie Nelson)	3:41	Kimmie Rhodes
Such Great Heights	4:13	Iron and Wine
Naked as We Came	2:35	Iron and Wine
The Secret Wedding	6:33	James Horner: London Symphony Orchestra
I Go to the Barn Because I Like the	3:07	Band of Horses
Can't Help Falling In Love (Live At Daytrotter)	3:14	Ingrid Michaelson
Lay Me Down	3:13	The Frames
The Trapeze Swinger	9:31	Iron & Wine
Let Me Come In!	1:00	Gabriel Yared/Original Soundtrack
Holocene	5:37	Bon Iver
All the Way Down	2:39	Glen Hansard
Honestly	4:11	Carey Brothers
Black Nights	1:54	Gabriel Yared/Original Soundtrack
Michicant	3:46	Bon Iver
Nearer My God To Thee	2:22	Eileen Ivers
I Will Follow You Into The Dark	3:11	Death Cab for Cutie
Clementine	4:07	The Decemberists
Wash.	4:59	Bon Iver
I Can't GIve You Anything But Love	3:26	Billie Holiday
Redemption Song	3:48	Bob Marley
Hidden Place	5:29	Björk
Sun In My Mouth	2:40	Björk
Harm Of Will	4:37	Björk
Cocoon	4:28	Björk
It's Not Up To You	5:09	Björk
Undo	5:38	Björk
Pagan Poetry	5:15	Björk
Frosti	1:41	Björk
Aurora	4:40	Björk
An Echo, A Stain	4:04	Björk
Across the Universe	4:08	Rufus Wainwright
Wild Horses	5:43	The Rolling Stones
Curs In the Weeds	3:31	Horse Feathers
Starving Robins	3:21	Horse Feathers
Cascades	4:13	Horse Feathers
As a Ghost	2:58	Horse Feathers
Falling Through the Roof	2:52	Horse Feathers
Like Lavender	3:27	Horse Feathers
Scare Away the Dark	4:39	Passenger
Heart's On Fire	4:13	Passenger
Redford (For Yia-Yia and Pappou)	2:02	Sufjan Stevens
I Never Learnt to Share	4:52	James Blake
Dlm	2:26	James Blake
Our Love Comes Back	3:39	James Blake
A Case of You	2:57	James Blake
Ocean Floor for Everything	3:13	How to Dress Well
World I Need You, Won't Be Without You (Proem)	2:49	How to Dress Well
Enough Thunder	4:15	James Blake
The Curse	5:04	Josh Ritter
Folk Bloodbath	5:16	Josh Ritter
Waves	5:32	Mono Band
Murder in the City	3:12	The Avett Brothers
Naïve	3:52	Sleeping at Last
The Leaving Song	4:10	Chris Garneau

We've Been Busy

Oh how much has changed in the (almost) two years since last writing here.

Sunil completed his degree and is now a PhD! It felt like forever getting there, but last April (2013) he defended his dissertation and became Dr. Patel. We had a party in late April, and he walked in early May.

The summer of 2013 was insanely busy. Two old and very dear friends were getting married within two months of each other (August and October)...and they are also sisters. There were wedding showers and bachelorette parties to attend, plus another friend's baby shower - all in Austin. My co-workers were beginning to wonder if I was planning a move down there.

Once the last wedding was finished we were able to take a deep breath...but not for long. The entire drive home from Austin that late October Sunday was miserable. I couldn't shake my hangover (it was a fun reception). I couldn't even eat dinner. Then the same thing all day Monday. Waves of "ugh." And again Tuesday. Then, when I started crying over The Elf, Sunil went to the grocery store down the street and came back with champagne and a home pregnancy test.

Positive.

It was October 29th.

I had an appointment that Friday, November 1st, with my OB. I was six weeks and one day pregnant. We told ourselves we would keep it quiet for a little while. Then we got home. And told everyone by the end of the following day.

So we've been on Baby Adventure mode ever since. We had to replace that wall we tore down between two of the rooms. And got a bigger and better closet out of it. We've had four baby showers (!). We've completed the registry. We've got a baby doll we (well, I) tote around sometimes to get the dogs comfortable with the idea. We've got frozen pasta sauce prepared for Sundays. We are ready. As ready as we will ever be.

And now we are waiting.

An Ultrasound