Hello!

I re-started this blog because I thought it would be fun to write about our last few months living in Washington DC before our daughter is born, and our subsequent move to St. Louis, Missouri.

If anyone is coming to this blog from a non-me-linking-you source, I’m Jillian.  I am married to a wonderful human named David, and we live in Washington DC.  We met on our very first day of law school, and got married last October.  At the moment, I am seven months pregnant with our daughter, whom we are calling Morpheus.  Obviously, that is not her real name-to-be.  You’d be amazed at how many people stop asking me questions or trying to touch my stomach as soon as I mention that we’re naming our baby Morpheus.

My very favorite activity in the world, besides sleeping, is knitting.  Even if you don’t see me knitting at the moment, I guarantee you that I have yarn and pointy sticks within the immediate radius of my arms.  I just feel better that way.  I’ve been knitting for fifteen years (eek), and yet at the moment I am working on completing my very first sweaters.  What can I say?  I have been less than ambitious.  But David is a wonderful audience for knitwear.  He actually wears it, and he tries really hard to remember the talking points about why the item is special and required quite so much cursing while I was making it.  Because of that, I will happily knit size 13 mens socks for him.

Our timeline for the move at the moment looks like this: in two weeks, we are heading to St. Louis to visit, and to hopefully find an apartment to rent starting in August.  My last day at my job is August 16th, and Morpheus is due on August 21.  We plan to have the baby here in DC, and stick around for around four weeks until I’m feeling better and the baby has a chance to adjust to a world with sunlight and a distinct lack of intestinal noises.  Then we are packing up our things and heading west.  David grew up in St. Louis, and he is really looking forward to going back.  I have loved it there every time I have visited, and I’m excited to become a full time resident!

I will say that my father in law gave me a lovely digital camera when they were here last year, and I very much intend to use it to take pictures for the blog.  At the moment I don’t have any, but maybe I will have some Finished Object pictures for you soon!