All right, I’ll go ahead and admit it: Today I am officially uncomfortable, and not only because I’m drinking a nasty iron-and-supplemental-mineral drink. I’ve been unofficially uncomfortable for at least a week now, but since that mostly involved waking up with sore hips (side sleeping is not my friend) and having a mildly sore back by the end of the day, I thought I’d hold off on the whining a little while longer. No more!

I seem not to fit in my own skin, quite suddenly. There is itching and stretching, not to mention the heartburn and all manner of sore muscle. Yeesh. And it does not get more comfortable from here, if memory serves.

So what did we do today, given my current level of whininess? Er, that is, discomfort? We went to IKEA. Because it’s sale time, and we need more stuff.

Actually, we did need more stuff: cheap bookshelves and dishes. Apparently we weren’t the only ones; we bought the last bookshelf in stock. We’re just desperately hoping it’s not damaged (or at least not too obviously damaged). They weren’t yet sold out of dishes, but there’s always tomorrow.

We ditched our plastic kids’ dishes after I read the Complete Organic Pregnancy (which I should really write about sometime… but not now) and bought them stoneware (read: sort of sturdy glass, but cheap from IKEA because we assumed breakage to be inevitable).

The bigger kids do just fine with glass, but on those occasions when Audrey gets a hold of a plate, look out. We started with a dozen each of plates, bowls, and… bigger bowls (pasta bowls?). We were down to three bowls and about a half a dozen each of the others. What do anti-plastic people put food in for toddlers? What? TELL ME! Please!

At any rate, we’re stocked up again. At least they cost under $2 apiece. Thank you, IKEA. And now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to talk Dane into both assembling a cheap bookshelf and massaging my lower back before he falls asleep. Good times.