I just woke up at 9am.... how glorious is that! I love sleeping in. It's gets a little hard though because I start to feel sore in the hip area from sleeping on my side. I might have stayed in bed a little longer!

Today I have the whole day free until 3pm when Eric and I are going to go to the annual Fall Party at the Noble Farm (family from church). Our friend Nate will make huge amounts of his famous chili and everyone else will bring delicious fall dishes to share. I am bringing Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread, which I am making today.  There will also be some pumpkin carving, possibly bobbing for apples (which I never do because I'm a sissy about getting water in my nose, lol), games, a hayride and a bonfire. It is a lot of fun! The weather is supposed to be fantastic today as well.

Until then I have some laundry to do and I need to clean the kitchen from yesterday's messy cooking endeavors, lol. I'm such a mess in the kitchen when I cook!! It can be totally clean and then when I'm done making dinner it looks like a disaster area. My dad is like that, too, maybe it is hereditary. But there is an unwritten rule somewhere that if Kim uses flour in any way, it will end up all over the place, including her shirt. HAHA!! I could have cleaned it up last night but I knew today was Saturday and all I wanted to do last night was veg on the couch. Do you ever have one of those days? I think I needed to catch up on my rest or something.

Yesterday Eric saved me twice from pregnancy induced emergencies. This is just one of the reasons he is such a great husband. He doesn't laugh at me, he doesn't get upset, he is just extremely patient and sympathetic. I went to the public library after work to renew/return some books, but when I pulled out of the parking lot and onto the street, I wasn't sure if I was going the right way. (Weird, I know.) I quickly recognized the next turn,  however, and continued on my way.  But the second and the third turn, while completely familiar, started to feel completely wrong, and then all of a sudden I realized I had no idea how to get home. I felt like maybe I was going home the way I used to when I lived in the other direction, but I wasn't entirely sure. I have been to this library at least two dozen times, and I used to work in downtown Rockford, so the one way streets and confusing navigation have never been a problem. Last night, though, I felt like my map of the city had been erased from my brain. Everything looked familiar but nothing looked right. Confusion, and then fear, settled in and by the time I heard Eric's voice on the phone I was weeping. I felt like I had gotten a case of amnesia or Alzheimer's, and it was scary and frustrating! Eric calmly pulled up a map on his computer to see where I was, and then directed me home while trying to calm me down. He gave me a big hug when I finally walked in the door.

The second time he saved me last night was not quite as traumatic. When we switched to using satellite for TV instead of cable, we got a different receiver and ended up losing the clock feature. (The satellite receiver does not have a screen on the front.) After a month without a clock in the living room, I finally raided the guest room and stole the alarm clock up there and brought it downstairs to hook up in the TV cabinet. I managed to feed the cord through the hole in the back of the cabinet, and then I leaned around the side between the TV and the wall to plug it into the outlet behind the cabinet on the floor. Well... I got stuck at the hips and my center of gravity shifted so that could not stand up with my hands hung in front of me like that. Eric had to run downstairs and scoot the TV out so I could lean the rest of the way in and plug in the clock, and then get out of there.

"What would I do without you, Eric?"

"Oh Kimmy.... I keep wondering that myself."

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