In honor of our first wedding anniversary, just four days from today, today’s Throw Back Thursday features highlights from my Bachelorette and Rehearsal Dinners. The former was a great event that allowed me to celebrate with my Maid of Honor, Petra, My Bridesmaid, Shauna and friends Monica and Katki in a low key and very fun night out.
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Today marks a week and a half that I’ve been working an assignment at Company C. The company has quite a lot of great perks, things both fun and practical for their employees and contractors. Some of these have proven great for my pregnancy.
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There are many people who recommend the book “What to Expect When You’re Expecting”. I’d even bought a copy for a friend many year’s ago, at a time when it was the only relevant book I knew. So now at 15 weeks pregnant, it was time I gave this book known by some as “the Pregnancy Bible” a read for the first time.
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This week Baby Perri is the size of an apple. For size comparison I put the selected fruit near a baseball we used as part of our pregnancy reveal shoot.
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Matt and I had discussed several times how we would like to get some hands on practice with a baby before I give birth. Our friends Joe and Katki wanted to go see “Guardians of the Galaxy II”, and were delighted to have us babysit their four and a half month son, Ishan. When the baby was dropped off to us, he was peacefully dozing.
Matt and I had a brief yet great appointment with Dr. G on Thursday. He was pleased to congratulate us (and Baby Perri) on the great NIPT results and continuing to have the odds in our favor. Baby is measuring 14 weeks and 6 days, so either the head to rump measure taken at my 10 week was more accurate than my 8 week, or baby is slightly large for his or her age.
Even since I learned I was pregnant, I’ve been more conscious of products I put into and on my body. I switched shampoo and conditioner and carefully looked for moisturizers as my skin tends to be dry, and I heard it might get progressively drier in pregnancy. I looked forward to using this as it’s from one of my favorite green and animal friendly company’s Burt’s Bees.
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In honor of the WWE PPV Matt and I attended last weekend, Payback, this week’s Throw Back Thursday focus is the Wrestlemania 31 On Sale Party we attended in 2014. Matt and I had originally planned to get General Admission tickets to the party, however, soon after buying our Wrestlemania tickets early online, were given a chance to buy VIP party tickets for a more interactive experience.
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Matt and I have always been huge professional wrestling fans, having both followed the sports entertainment since when we were kids, when the WWE was known as the WWF. We’ve attended Wrestlemania 31 (and other Wrestlemania week events), a house show and two RAW episodes.
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This week, I review modern classic, “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood. I had originally read the book as a teenager, and was inspired to reread and review it after learning more about the new Hulu series that has been adapted from the book. Even after having read it once and remembered a lot of it vividly, and having seen the original movie adapted from it, it was a good experience revisiting the story. I’ve heard that the series so far has updated several aspects of the novel, however, having not started that yet, this review will only cover the book.
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