The Light at the end of the Tunnel

Is it always this hard and uncomfortable at the end of pregnancy? Why is it that I can't seem to forget the whole delivery part of the process, but I sure as heck can't remember being this uncomfortable with my other pregnancy's. I'm sure I was though. I had a false alarm Friday night when I woke up at 2:00 in the morning for my middle of the night bathroom break. Contractions kicked in and at 2:30 I woke Aaron up and told him I thought I was in labor. He immediately jumped up and started collecting items for a to go bag for the hospital since we weren't prepared. We started timing the contractions and they were anywhere from 1-1/2 minutes to 2 minutes apart. Pretty good sign this baby was coming.....so we thought. I called Suz and she was at our house in less than 5 minutes. My only concern with going to the hospital right away was my contractions were hardly painful. I could talk pretty easily through them. That is NOT how it was with Abigail. So we waited to see if they would pick up in pain.. After an hour of contracting I decided I would lay down, as I was pooped, and if they continued than we'd go. Well, they dropped to every 4-1/2 to 7 minutes for another hour and then I fell fast asleep and so did my contractions. Guess it was not his time after all. I've had very little excitement since. Now I'm hoping he either comes this week, sooner rather than later, or just stays put until his due date on the 2nd. Nathan and Hannah both have their graduations next week and I don't want to miss either.

On a side note, my mom and sisters stole me away last week to Red Mango and threw my a little shower. We hardly ever go out like this which is so lame because every time we do we always say we need to do this more often. So much laughing, so much bonding, so much yummy Red Mango. Thank you, thank you, thank you for the gifts for little Joe and for my most favorite treat of Red Mango ever! And just for posterity, a picture of Nikki and me. Nikki is having twins, a boy and a girl, and will most likely have them shortly after me. We all are hoping they stay put until the first part of July.