The Waco Creek is probably running well after the good, soaking thunderstorm we just had. Maybe the "cool" front that it brought with it will make it more likely that I'll walk down to the creek for a picture. The picture in this blog's header is not--surprise--our humble creek but a lily pond at Mohonk, a state park in eastern NY. For now, the Texas heat drags on and I am happy to envision our burgeoning little creek from the comfort of our air-conditioned living room.

Our lives right now consist of a lot of waiting and ummm...nesting. The nesting instinct, which is totally real, has kicked in for both of us. Which makes sense for me since I have the time to be doing things like re-painting the baby room, replacing light fixtures, and looking askance at the dirt collecting on the base boards. But JB is nesting too even though he is working a full time and a teaching a class at Baylor. He spent labor day with our generous (and hungry!) friend Allan steaming off wallpaper and has his sights on re-finishing the wood floor in the baby room for an October project--as in four weeks before the baby is due to be born.

But we're also reading, writing, and refusing to succumb completely to baby brain. I just finished a wonderful novel by David Mitchell--Cloud Atlas (2004). What a fun novel to read! He takes on six different genres, six time periods, and six main characters in six plot lines (each with its own distinct narrative voice) woven together loosely but convincingly (for the most part). Maybe I'll write more about this novel's particular delights in the near future, but little Rosco is kicking and I need a nap.