I frequent a couple of Due in April boards and the first baby was born yesterday. Another of the girls is in labor today. Amazing. One of them only 34 weeks preggo. I’m 3 days away from being 34 weeks preggo. While I don’t think this baby will be that early, it still is amazing to know they are coming.
I’m glad we’ve been getting so much stuff done. I think I only need 2 more weeks to get all the critical baby stuff accomplished at home. I also need to get loose ends wrapped up at work. (That may take a longer period of time — like 3 weeks) but anyways, I think I should have everything done as long as I keep my eye on the ball (and my todo lists)
For the last 2 weeks, I had been using weekly todo lists to help me accomplish a few things every week. But it didn’t work as well as it did this week when I decided to create daily tasks instead of weekly ones. I have some for D, some for me and so far it’s been working great. the todo lists for the last 3 days have been insane but very helpful and I feel a sense of accomplishment. The light at the end of the tunnel is barely visible. I think as soon as we get next week over with, I’ll finally be able to concentrate on washing and prepping all the ’stuff’ for this baby. I can’t wait!
I swear sometimes I just can’t manage to stop yawning.. dunno why. It starts and I keep yawning time and time again.. like now . 
soo annoying.
anyways, it’s almost midnight. I’m dead tired. can barely keep my eyes open and all i can think about is drinking a tall glass of coke. I gotta have my coke!
So I’m now 33 weeks preggo. Just 7 weeks left to go before I’m done cooking but if this one is born early like J, it will be 5 weeks. It’s getting close!
well, today I was late .. again.. and got caught being late… again… and then i got a talking to for being late. I dunno why this got me down so much but it has. It’s weighing heavy on me for some reason and i’ve been fairly depressed today. Normally I wouldn’t care so much but it’s really bugging me now.
I’m moody, not feeling so good, craving fruit juice but too lazy to get up to get it. I ate too much today… again. Goddam those frosted flakes. I’m soo hooked on that shit it isn’t even funny. Guess what I started craving JUST as i finished typing that last sentence… white rice, red beans, and beef. Well I have no beef but we do have ham. OK, I think i’ll have some of that and wash it down with some apple juice.
Goddamnit!
but I’m still highly motivated to get things done before this baby is born. We’re about 80% done with Jada’s new room. Today D should be installing the new blinds and painting the door and frame. That will conclude the painting. I still want to paint the inside of the closet, tho, but I could really do that myself in one evening after i get all the junk out of it (which won’t be until after everything else is done)
Today I’m going to try to make it to miami carpet and tile to see about getting carpeting installed in that room this week. After that, then we move all the furniture back in. THAT’S going to be a releif because the house is such a mess right now from all the clutter from that room. I ordered curtains and a rod last night too. I can’t wait for that to arrive. Pretty soon we’ll be done with that room, J will be moved into it, and I’ll be able to start pulling out and washing all of J’s old clothes for the baby. yay! I still want to do things like install a new closet system and install shelving up one wall for toys. she’s got a LOT of toys..
So my 6 week plan is going well. 
I GOTTA stick to the plan cuz there is just so much on it.
In other news, I went to my OB appt. yesterday and everything is great. Doc said baby was head down but I already knew that. From now on I go every other week for checkups. then soon it will be every week. But the highlight of the visit was finding out my weight. A WHOPPING 192 lbs! When the nurse was done taking my weight and went back to her table to write it down, I just stood there staring at the little weights.. I said “what?! I don’t weight that much!!” She said “you don’t?” I fiddled with the weight a little to see if it was just stuck or something LOL!! but it wasn’t. So I just stepped off and said “well, i guess i do”. the other woman waiting there started laughing .. she tried to give me pep talk that a healthy baby is the only important thing. Yeah. I agree with her but … 192?? CHRIST!
This means I’m definitely going to be hitting and passing the 200 lbs mark before this is all over. With J, I only made it to about 195 and I beleive that was at 37 weeks preggo. she was born only one week later.
But anyways, I’m not REALLY concerned with my weight. Sure I was shocked but don’t really care. I’ll worry about losing it afterwards.. I’ll do what I can after the baby is born but I don’t want to go too agressive because I don’t want to hurt my milk supply. I will only really worry after I’m done breastfeeding because you do tend to gain weight when you’re done with that (body no longer has to burn cals to make milk…)
The lazy bug has hit me again… AND I WAS DOING SO WELL BEFORE THAT! This is the second day of it. Hopefully it is only a 48 hour bug. sigh….
According to my calculations, I could have this baby any time after the next 7 weeks. J was born at 38 weeks. I’m 31 now.. so do the subtraction. :) I’m not terrified about it, this just the incentive I need to get off my ass both at work and at home. I need to write up a 7 week plan. (make that 6, just in case)
On the forum I frequent, I managed to start a weekly countdown-to-baby challenge. So far, it’s working out great. But I feel I still need to create a 6 week plan so I can have an eagle eye view of what has to get done. There’s so much too. But I think what scares me is that I forget the items because it’s all been in a mental list which seems to change and warp in size each time i think of it. And the ghost items which appear and disappear .. the most important of all too, and the fact that they disappear from my memory is scary. Can you imagine if I keep forgetting to register at the hospitals and have to fill out paperwork while in labor?! or I forget to pack a hospital bag? or those insurance checks expire? or I forget to get J her passport done? omg. And that doesn’t cover the cleaning that the house really really needs badly…
I rejoined FlyLady last night. I dunno how much of a help that will be. It depends on me, really. we’ll see.
but the mess in the house has got to stop. It’s just too much and we all have our limits. Things are worse now because we’re redoing the guest bedroom for Jada and allll the furniture and toys are all over the place.
I’ll be posting before & after pics when it’s all done. I think one more weekend and the hardest parts will be done. Then we can get all the STUFF back in that room and organized. AFter this, however, I need to gut the closet and buy a new shelving solution. ..and get D to install it. oy. In the meantime, J will still use her old closet but should be sleeping in her new room. :) I sure hope she doesn’t have a fit when we put her in there. She REALLY loves her bed.
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