Sometime in the third week of October 2010, I got a "double line" on the home pregnancy test. I was five weeks then. The last twenty five weeks seemed to have whizzed by at times and at other times, was crawling like a snail. I quit work at sixteen weeks. It was not my choice, but I was forced to take the hundred day break. What did I do during these twenty five weeks?
- In November, I had been to two Diwali parties. Lots of food and gupshup. As I was only six weeks I was not showing yet and my ethnic Indian clothes fit me so well. My friend K was leaving Seattle for good. I went to her farewell as well. And some days before Diwali, K and I had one last lunch at Petra Mediterranean Bistro. We had a horrible snow day before Thanksgiving and A was caught in the snow storm. It took him six hours to reach home. The Thanksgiving Shopping! I managed to wake up early and go rummage the shelves of various stores. We got our Samsung Galaxy - S at Best Busy and had lunch at Pabla, Renton.
- December - The holiday season. There was a lot of eating out. I had my first appointment with my OBGYN. We saw little Peanut for the first time. She was as tiny as a peanut and that's how the name came to be. We didn't know it was a "she" until later. We flew to San Francisco for a week. A happened to have some vacation time that had to be used up. Boy, that was so much fun. We ate, roamed, had lots of fun and were hungry for more. We explored every corner of SFO like we never did before. Napa Valley. Sonoma. Berkeley. San Jose. Mountain View. Stanford. Downtown. In Trip Advisor's language, we are now Destination Experts. *puffs up like a toad* We were back in Seattle for the New Year's Eve. We had dinner at Habesha, an Ethiopian restaurant and called it an early night. I was thirteen weeks by then and exhaustion was kicking in.
- January - New Year's Day lunch was at Cafe Oh! India. Then came A's birthday. He didn't want a cake. So I got an assortment of desserts from Whole Foods. I had made dinner reservations at Sutra. We shared a table with a couple from the Bay Area. We brought home the big book shelf from my work place. Jan 10th was my last day at work. We were invited to dinner at Satish's place. We came to know it was a "she". I started with my prenatal yoga. I read, read and read like there was no tomorrow. It was sometime this month that I discovered a new found love for Wodehouse. Shivani invited us to spend a week with her at Vancouver, but we couldn't go because of my Visa issues.
- February - Shivan's birthday lunch at Frida's. I presented her a cook book. Pooja called us over for some Punjabi Aloo parantha. Valentine's Day dinner was at home, for a change. A got me a long stemmed rose and strawberries dipped in chocolate. Shivani, Pooja and I had a girls' night out. We dined at What the Pho and slept over at Pooja's. Sometime end of this month, the World Cup fever started.
- March - The whole of March was spent catching up with World Cup. We and other friends gathered at Satish's place for every match. Potluck dinner, watch match all night, have breakfast and leave the next morning. I ordered Indian style Chinese dinner from Punita.
- April - I announced my pregnancy to Shivani and the rest. Shivani's daughter's birthday was at Chuckee Cheese. Had an awesome dinner and a movie date with A. Dinner was at Frida's and the movie was Hanna.
