36 weeks 6 days

I have been trying to get through all the thank you cards, but the swelling and soreness in my finger joints is making that impossible. Plus, I'm getting mild contractions more and more. I used to be doubled up in pain with menstrual cramps when I was younger, and I hated that I had such horrible pain related to being a woman that the other girls did not seem to be afflicted by. At this point, however, I'm glad I got painful menstrual cramps in my youth because those experiences make Braxton-Hicks contractions less scary and easily recognizable. I guess everything really does happen for a reason. And if everything happens for a reason, does the pain in my fingers mean I do not have to finish the thank you cards?

Perhaps not.

Bo really should write some of them, though.