Giving Away Clothes, Having Huge Babies, Gardens

I have this very nice friend upon whom I unload all of my children's clothing once it gets too small.  The problem is that her son is under a year, and my son is four, and so the clothing is, of course, WAY too big.  She still graciously accepts it, but I feel a little bit awful giving it to her just because, well, who wants to store clothes for years in their basement?  Not me.  Noooooot me.

I just made a huge bag up for her of pjs, all sized 2T to 4T, and I'm thinking of leaving it on her porch so I don't have to hand it to her sheepishly.  Maybe this is a sign that I need to stop with trying to find 'good homes' for hand-me-down clothing and just shove it all in the donation boxes for thrift stores.

What I don't have is someone to take the too-small little girl clothes yet.  Although most of those I tend to keep since my daughters will be 25 months apart, so likely will wear the same sized seasonal clothing.  This is what I'm telling myself, anyway, in order to avoid having to make emotional clothes-removal decisions.

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Ways I can tell this baby is going to be huge:

1 - The heartburn in this pregnancy has me starting my THIRD giant bottle of extra-strength Tums.  Third.  I've told myself that this is because the baby is so big it's squishing all of my internal organs, including my stomach.

2 - The baby has progressed to doing that flopping movement where it feels like a huge, fat, BABY is moving in you, rather than a tiny fish, or a parrot.  No little foot motions, but, like, A BABY.

3 - I'm certain that she will be at least as big as her siblings were.  Samuel was 8 lbs 7 oz and Clara was 8 lbs 6.25 oz.  I've gained a bit more than with those pregnancies, and I'm attributing it to more baby.

4 - I'm a pessimist.

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I keep going outside and puttering around doing garden stuff.  I have no clue what I'm doing.  Last year's garden was a total disaster, and we moved at the end of August so I didn't get a chance to enjoy any harvest we might have had.  This year I've started a bed of sunflowers, sweet peas and zinnia along the front porch, and a large window box of johnny jump-ups and pansies.  Last fall I transplanted some chives and rhubarb, and they have both come up and seem to be sort of doing something, so that's encouraging.  And a nice parishioner brought me a big bucket of blue lobelia and what I think are geraniums, so that's on the porch as well.  That's it.  But I have lots of seeds and I'm not done yet.