A Day in the Life of a (Feeling) Preggers Housewife - 11dpo

7:00 - Take basal body temperature (BBT) and then go back to sleep
7:35 - Receive wake-up nuzzle by husband and wake up with a smile
7:40 - Brush teeth, gag, and 'complain' about morning sickness
7:45 - Lovingly prepare baon and breakfast for husband while making gagging motions
7:55 - Enjoy folate-fortified breakfast cereals and pleasant morning conversation with husband
8:20 - Send husband off to work with a kiss
8:25 - Record BBT in fertilityfriend.com
8:30 – Research on luteal phase defect and obsess over BBT chart
9:00 - Take a power nap while listening to Baby Einstein music
11:30 - Wake up fantasizing about cold chicken with patis and calamansi
11:35 - Fantasize over gift-wrapping positive pregnancy test kits to give to parents as Christmas presents
11:43 - Brush teeth, gag, and 'complain' about morning sickness
11:45 - Decide against going out to buy calamansi and decide on tortang talong instead
11:50 - Make tortang talong while drooling in anticipation
12:30 - Devour tortang talong and chicken while justifying it as eating for two
12:43 - Cry over husband's touching email "Apat na araw na lang. Mukhang magaganda naman ang mga senyales ngayong buwan. Hindi man natin ramdam ang Pasko sa nakagawian na nating paraan, marahil ito na ang Paskong hindi natin malilimutan. Mahal na mahal kita."
12:45 - Cry over SATC's Stanford and Marcus getting back together
13:00 - Obsess over past BBT charts and compare with current chart
13:30 - Straighten up bedroom and scrub bathroom floor (read: nesting)
13:45 - Fantasize about riding a plane with a 7-month belly
13:50 - Email husband and reprimand him for jaywalking (My unborn baby needs her daddy!)
14:30 - Watch 'Birth Stories' on Discovery Home & Health and cry each time a baby is born
15:00 - Take a shower and spend ages in front of the mirror poking and probing each breast for any sign of Montgomery's tubercules
15:30 - Head for the library to borrow Shopaholic & Baby and The Diary of a Mad Mom-To-Be
17:30 - Prepare dinner, making sure to include folate-rich vegetables
18:30 - Watch TV while 'complaining' about extreme fatigue
19:00 - Enjoy dinner with husband while gazing lovingly at him and thinking how great he'd be as a father

20:00 - Count remaining pregnancy test kits. Decide that seven kits are not enough and make a mental note to buy more
22:00 - Kiss husband good night and say a quick prayer of thanks to Him who's given you hope to make it through another day no matter how hopeless it sometimes gets