making progress

last weekend tim and i tackled the "nursery" - which is really just our guest room but will be Presley's room until we move back to texas. we cleared out closets and drawers for her, and did 3 humongous loads of baby clothes laundry. we made a big trip to babies r us - or as tim likes to call it "hell" - and i felt much better about the impending arrival of baby girl.

this weekend i feel even better! today we got our crib delivered, bought our stroller (i still don't understand what makes it worth $1000, but whatever), and bought a few more essentials, like tylenol, diaper wipes, those itty bitty fingernail clippers, etc.

left to do:
* decide on bedding (and order fabric, have it all made)
* wash more clothes
* determine which cloth diapers we're going to use
* maintain optimism that cloth diapering will be easier than everyone thinks and that we're not crazy
* organize kitchen drawers so we can have a "baby drawer"
* keep growing baby for 8 more weeks

i am trying not to complain about being pooped right now, because i know it's only going to get worse the further along i get. and then i'll max out on my pooped-ness when she actually arrives. so i'm trying to stay positive.

but frankly, my back hurts. thank goodness i have a massage scheduled for tomorrow morning.

retirement

34 working days to go! can you tell i have a one track mind???

i just got back from my final pregnancy trip. i went home for a week, and as always, it just flew by. we looked at houses for our upcoming move (in about 6-8 months!), went to the UT football game (hook em horns!), had a baby shower (such good stuff!), and spent lots of time with my little munchkin neice and wiggle worm nephew. it was a great trip, and it's so depressing to be back already.

starting to really freak out about my upcoming due date. we have done nothing, and have everything to do. i returned from this trip with a suitcase full of gifts and clothes, so i now must undertake the daunting task of organzing and putting away. we need to buy a lot of stuff in the very near future as well, and i'm starting to feel the time crunch. i must make this weekend extremely productive!

that's it for now. off to write thank you notes from this past weekend!