Blessings vs Struggles

So I'm at a point in this whole pregnancy journey that I'm becoming quite overwhelmed.  This week, in particular, has been especially challenging.  It seems that all areas of my life are colliding and there's nothing I feel qualified to do about it.  I've had several unrelated events happened this week that are keeping me from sleeping at night-one right after the other-which I'm sure is just making my reasoning skills worse from lack of sleep.  I spent the entire morning and afternoon yesterday crying, so I tried to stay away from everyone at work to avoid anyone seeing me break down.  "Just focus on the computer moniter and don't look away" I keep telling myself.  All of these events/things, I must admit, I have no solution for.  I have no plan as to how to improve or change the situations.  I'm just not sure what to do about them, or, honestly, how to even pray about them.  (Holy Spirit, feel free to jump in any time now.. :-).I am truly helpless at this point.  To add insult to injury, I also have all of the other regular life things to deal with--mainly, not enough time to deal with basic life things.  Not enough time to spend on chores to keep some kind of order in my life. Not enough time to keep in touch with people.  Not enough time to plan or prepare appropriately for this upcoming life change, or not enough time to even exercise-which makes me feel even more guilty, not to mention unhealthy. 

With all of these things happening, I am constantly reminded that God has truly blessed my life.  I have no reason to get down in the dumps and really just need to try my best to continue to roll with the punches, right?  I mean--that's what everyone else is doing.  What makes me so pitiful that I can't get through some rough waters?  Everybody is busy.  Everybody has struggles in their life that they are battling.  Who I am to say that mine are more detrimental.  Because in all reality, they're not.  All of my physical needs are met.  I am healthy.  My baby is healthy.  Our bills are paid.  We have a place to live.  We even have the funds to go on a vacation every year.  Not very many people get to do that.  I go to a church that finds my strengths and allows me to serve in those areas.  I have a church family that is super supportive of mine and Adam's lives.  I have a husband that loves me and wants me to be happy.  I have a loving family- mine, and in-laws.  I have many friends that are excited for this next chapter in our lives and try to support us in any way they can.  I have a job with generous pay and a great boss/mentor/friend.  I even have a cat that I can force to cuddle with me if I hold her close and don't let her jump down for 5-10 seconds :-)  Oh--and a free pass to not have to change the litter....Now there's the silver lining, huh? 

All of these things I am completely aware of.  All of these blessings are a constant reminder that there's no reason for me to be down.  But it doesn't change the fact that I am.  And I don't know how to move forward gracefully accept to keep living life, acting like nothing is wrong so I can make it through the day. 

This, by the way, is the extent of my venting.  I haven't talked to anyone about it.  I don't want to talk about it.  I don't want to complain to anyone that it's too hard.  I'm tired of crying and don't want to do it anymore.  I just want to take action to get things going in the right direction.  If I spend time talking out all of the details to someone, I'll just be having my own little pity party and get myself worked up about it, and that's not something I am wanting to do.  I just need to focus on remaining calm.  So--what to do, really?  Pray.  Right now, I can only claim verses that I feel apply to my life:

"The Lord is close to the broken hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit." Psalm 34:18

"Until now, you have not asked for anything in my name.  Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete."  John 16:24

That's enough of that!  I feel better already.

On some brighter notes--here are some pictures that I have snatched with my handy dandy new (refurbished) iPhone, which makes it much easier for me to add to my posts.

I bought these clothes at a Kohl's on clearance.  I couldn't help myself!  They were between $3 and $5 so I couldn't pass up the deal.  They all have matching bottoms attached behind the tops as well.  Those will be first to go into the closet....that is once is it "de-officed" and able to have clothes in it.

Also, one of my co-workers knits--in competitions and stuff.  She's very talented and knits a lot of the sweaters she wears to work--and you would never know they're home made.  She's very good.  She decided to knit a little jacket for the baby!  It was very nice of her to do this, and she was even as thoughful as to knit the buttons right into the jacket, rather than going back afterwards and sewing them on.  She said it makes it more safe because it would be harder for the baby to rip one off and swallow it.  I would have never even thought it of this!  Anyway--here's a pic of that.  You can't tell from the picture, but there are portions that are raised to create some texture in the jacket.  How nice :-)

I've got to wrap this puppy up, as I've spent my entire lunch break typing away.  Good bye ---and here's to a better week and weekend ahead.  I look forward to relaxing on Labor Day, Monday.  That will help, I'm sure!

Movin and a shakin!

I just realized how long it's been since I posted.  I'll say that I have been busy collecting material...and not doing anything with it.  Oh well.  I'm doing the best I can :-)

So let's see--what's gone on since my last post.  I had my follow up Dr visit on the 17th after the ultrasound.  Everything went well.  The doc said she reviewed the ultrasound and all of the body parts were there, in the right place, and the right size.  So that's a good sign of good health.  I asked her about this pain I'm still having, and she said that all signs point to kidney stone.  Baby is fine, just uncomfortable for me.  But I don't think it's a kidney stone because I've been having the pain for so long.  As long as it's not affecting the baby, I guess I'll just have to deal with it.  I also asked her about determining if I'm "on schedule" as far as due date is concerned.  She said everything looks perfectly fine to her right now. She said not to plan on being early, as far as she can tell now.  You know what that means....Merry Christmas!  I figure, if I do happen to go into labor during one of the Christmas Eve service (that Adam I'm sure will be singing in), I can just hold her in for a little bit, right?  (Right, Ashley???)  Ashley didn't want to have Eli on April Fool's day...so she refused to start pushing until after midnight.  How's that for stubborn!  Of course, I'm in the same boat--I REALLY don't want to have the baby on Christmas Eve or Christmas...so we'll see how tight I can keep my legs crossed when the time comes!!  My next appt is Sept 24th.

We got to sing at an outdoor wedding that weekend, which was really fun.  We got tagged during the practice that morning on Facebook.  Thanks to Ashley for letting me borrow a maternity dress that went perfectly with my light blue converse sneakers!  And yes, you can see my baby bump developing.

We also celebrated Adam's 31st birthday that weekend!  What did he want to do on his actual birthday, might you ask??  Shop for clothes, of course!  And eat out...which we do a lot of lately anyway, so no big change there!  We went up to Pittsburgh to a mall that he likes, ate at one of favorite places, Chipotle, for lunch, and then headed down to Washington, PA to the outlet mall to spend the rest of the afternoon.  There's no tax on clothing in Pennsylvania, so it always helps our clothing budget stretch a little further.  With the money that I have saved from my birthday (yes, I'm still spending that money) and from my clothes money that is budgeted each money, I had a nice little chunk of change to get clothes as well.  Of course, my "trying on stuff" stamina is much less than Adam's, so I got tired before he was done.  I still ended up with a good amount of stuff for myself--so I'm feeling better about my maternity clothes situation.  It should hold me until I fit into some of the larger things I was handed down from some friends of mine. 

Last week, I traveled to Restin, Virginia for a work training seminar.  It was a fun time.  It started off a little stressful because it's an almost 4 hour drive (with potty breaks that I HAVE to take), and I left work late Tuesday night.  So I was pushing to get on the road before it was too late, which always makes me feel unprepared, and then my car started acting up.  I did some trouble shooting with Adam on the phone before I got too far away from Morgantown, and we finally decided that it was ok for me to continue on.  It will be going to the shpo this week to make sure it's safe.  Seems like we can't get away from pouring money into cars.  boo.  After that it was a great time.  I was able to relax in the evenings (mostly) just trying to mark things off of my to do list for the week.  I did get a new (refurbished) iPhone right before I left, so I spent a lot of time configuring it and reading the manual. I've got a long way to go on the manual, but am very excited about the new capabilities I have!  I had such a good time, I treated myself to a nice filet dinner with apple pie dessert.  Both were AMAZING--on Mylan's dime--and I sat by myself in a public restaurant.  That was weird, but the food was well worth it.  Here's a pic of the apple pie with a crushed walnut crust with side of cinnamon ice cream with caramel topping.  So good!

 

 

The first night, after my class, I went ahead and took a picture with my handy dandy new iPhone.  Some of you have seen it.  Here's my fast version of a belly picture!

 

 

 

And last but not least, on Saturday afternoon, I was working on bills on my laptop and Lexi was sleeping on our black chair in the living room.  She was sleeping on the edge of the chair, looking like she was going to roll off.  She woke up and decided to stretch and I snapped her picture.  Good stretch, I would say.

Well, that's all for me tonight.  Off to bed.  I'll try to keep posting :-)

Interesting Day today...

So...fun weekend..followed by interesting week days. 

The rehearsal and wedding that we went to on Friday and Saturday were a great time!  Adam did a great job singing and everything went well.  The families were so sweet and we got to spend a great deal of time with them and another couple that goes to CRC that we didn't really know very well before. We had a very good time.

We got to sleep in on Saturday and Sunday!!  I can't even remember the last time I got to sleep in!  It felt wonderful!  We got to go to the 11:00am service on Sunday, and I for sure can't remember when the last time Adam and I got to go to a service together without one of us serving that weekend.  Again--it was a great time!  After church, we met with up with a guitar player to practice for a wedding we're singing at this coming Saturday.  It has some fun songs, will be outdoors, and I get to wear my light blue converses with my dress!  How fun is that?!  We're singing "Lucky" - a duet, I am singing "Arms" by Christina Perri, and then the couple will do their first dance to us singing "To Be With You" by Mr Big.  Fun stuff!  It will just be us and an aucustic guitar with no sound system, so I'll have to sing much louder than I am used to so that I am heard.  It will be a fun time.  Our rehearsal for this one will be tomorrow night-Wednesday, so I'm looking forward some good fellowship and good food at the dinner! 

Sunday after church, we went up to the mall to try to do some clothes shopping for me.  We walked in and saw the movie theater...and cracked.  We decided to see a movie!  These spur of the moment decisions won't be happening anymore come next year, so we decided to just go ahead and watch the movie.  We got out with 40 minutes to shop left before stores closed....and guess what....I found two pairs of work pants!  Yay!  I still need a brown pair and a grey pair would be nice, but I'll just keep looking.   I really do like to two that I found though, so I'm very happy. 

Today was an interesting day.  I was very busy, and went mid-day after some meetings to the post office to mail mom's rx's to her.  I thought I needed to use the restroom on my way out, but didn't think I'd be out long, so figured I could hold it.  Well....it took a while longer than I expected and I was in so much pain, I could barely move my foot from the gas to the break.  I was really struggling getting in and out of the car.  The pain was so severe that I could hardly breathe.  So, obviously...this was a problem.  I remembered at that time that this had been happening to me each night.  I will wake up in the middle of the night in severe pain, needing to go pee.  I have been stuggling to roll over and get out of bed, and waddle down the hall to get to the bathroom.  After I pee, I'm SO much better, and just have a little achy leftover pain afterwards, but 10 times better than before.  I hadn't thought anything about this until it happened to me in the day time.  Then I remembered that I felt this pain when I went in for my ultrasound last week.  Remember I told you that I felt like I was going to pass out because I was in so much pain.  Same thing.  So--what did I do?  I finished what I was doing and got my butt back to work as quickly as possible so I could use the restroom!  I was fine after that, but decided that it might be a good idea to call my doctor just to let them know what was going on, and make sure I was fine until my regular appointment on Friday.  I talked to the nurse and she told me to leave work immediately and go to the Emergency Room.  Now--let me go ahead and point out before I explain what happened.  I am fine and healthy.  The baby is fine a healthy.  We're good. 

Ok--so she told me to go straight to the emergency room, she would call ahead and let them know I was on my way.  Probably just a precaution, but she wanted me to be checked out immediately.  Needless to say, that freaked me out a little bit, but I told a friend at work that I had to leave for the ER, just a precaution, but I needed to go right then.  I got in the car, called Adam to let him know to meet me there, and on to the hospital I went.  I got there and they quickly took me up to labor and delivery.  It's weird being pushed around in a wheelchair by someone.  Very strange.  They asked a million questions, hooked me up to a few different monitoring devices--first of all, checked the baby's heart beat--and it was totally fine.  She was even in a playful mood and thought she would kick the monitor thing everytime they started pressing it in.  It sounded very funny :-)  Everything was fine as far as pregnancy went.  A few different people came in and out--I got to listen to a lady screaming her way through delivery across the hall--oh yeah.  It was a really busy day, so they didn't have a room for me--they stuck me in the Recovery Room nook on the side of a hallway, so I was watching babies come out of doors ever so often.  Pretty neat.  So, after that, they said it was possible that I had a kidney stone, though very strange that I was only hurting when I had to pee, and relieved of the pain soon after doing so.  They wanted an ultrasound of my kidneys to check things out.  Well, Adam had to leave for a softball game, and since I was perfectly fine, we knew he was fine to not be there.  Off he went, and I waited in that room for 2 more hours without anyone coming in.  Just a blood pressure cuff automatically taking my blood pressure every 15 minutes, and a contraction monitor wrapped around my belly for precaution.  Adam was able to finish up and then bring me some dinner back to the hospital.  I was pretty hungry.  We ate, I decided to try to nap because my butt was tired of sitting in the same spot for 4 hours, and just waited.  Finally, someone came, took me to get the kidney ultrasound, and then brought me back.  I think it was after 9 at that point.  The doctor came in and said the radiologist that reads the ultrasound is busy with another patient right now and it could be hours before he gets to mine.  She took and look and said nothing seemed strange...except one thing.  My bladder was REALLY BIG! 

That's a weird thing to hear.  I did have to use the restroom, but wasn't in pain or anything.  I had just had some lemonade from Chick-fil-a.  Evidentally it made my bladdar expand a lot and she said something about my kidney being something....like surrounded by liquid or something.  I'm not sure. Nothing to fret about, it just looks like I am unaware of when I need to pee!  How weird is that!  So, instead of waiting around for the actual results, she said we could leave as long as I let them know if I was having problems again.  Oh..and one more thing.  I have to set my alarm and make myself pee AT LEAST every 2 hours.  Day and night.  Night and day.  That's right.  I am a kindergardener that needs to be reminded to go pee.  How embarassing :-)  She's afraid that I'm not fullying "voiding" and then I can't tell when I have to go again, get busy, and forget, and it's causing a lot of strain on my bladder.  Surely, there is not a technical term for this...

So--solution.  Pee more.  Hopefully this will solve any problems I have in the future.  Sorry to all of the meetings that I will have to leave early/be late for...or leave in the middle of.  My doctor said I have to pee.  So there. 

So--we got home around 9:30 or so and I will definitely be going to bed now.  I've set my alarm for my potty breaks and I'm ready to go!  Hopefully for a night free of bladder pain :-)  Wish me luck!

It's a girl!

So, you all know by know, but yes--we are having a girl!  The ultrasound was an interesting experience :-)  We'll find out more about the health and everything at our next Dr appt once the Dr has a chance to review all of the pictures the ultrasound technition took.  From the date of the early ultrasound we had done, which they say is the more accurate date, we were 19 weeks, 3 days along.  The technition yesterday said that the growth currently puts her at 20 weeks, 1 day--but says that they are less reliable for age the further along since babies grow at different rates.  So who knows.  Here's the only profile picture they gave us:

Preparing for the ultrasound was interesting.  I had to drink so much liquid within an hour of the test, and not "void" any of it...that kind of thing.  By the time I made it to the Dr's office, I was about to explode.  As if my belly didn't feel tight enough!  Then, we sat in the waiting room for 45 minutes before being taken back.  Ouch.  I hop on the table and of course, the rubbing and pushing began.  I must have been holding my breath or something to buffer the pain because about 15 minutes in, I felt like I was going to pass out!  After a few minutes of feeling like that, I mentioned it to the technition, who had me sit up...and she said..."yeah--i thought you looked a little pale all of a sudden..."  Then--she gave me permission to go to the bathroom.  What a weakling I am.  Can't even hold my bladder for three hours....  So, after that, I was able to enjoy the pictures of floating body parts magically appearing on the screen.  It is a baffling experience.  I really don't understand one bit how she can have that device in the same place and see so many different angles and different things.  Really strange.  I'm pretty sure that the baby kicked the device twice, but I hadn't felt anything before that time, so I wasn't sure exactly what was happening.  The technition didn't seemed amused with any of mine or Adam's strange comments.  When she finished taking a million pictures for the dr to review, she wiped me off and said "All done, have a good day!".  We looked at her like....and the baby is...what?  So I asked if she was able to tell us the sex of the baby--which is what we were expecting.  And she was like, "oh--you want to know??".  Like it's not all over my chart--I've told them every time I go in that we want to know!  She said that she saw what it was, but she would go ahead and show us since we wanted to know.  She jellied up my belly again and started digging in.  We got a very unlady-like view and all agreed--that's a chick!  She didn't give me a picture though.  Oh well.  At least we got this nice one.  And one of the foot...which looks like we have long toes in our future...but at least it was five toes on a foot. 

After the appt, we called all of you people (because let's face it, no one else reads this blog), to update you on the situation while we grabbed some quick dinner and then headed off to Adam's softball games for the evening.  They won both games, and Adam didn't get hit with a ball--win, win, win.  After that--it was off to "Smitty's" with some couples for some local ice cream treats.  After that --groceries that we desperately needed, and then I made cookies to bring into work today.  It was a long night :-) 

I had put up a list that people could guess whether it was a boy or a girl at work.  Winners got goodies.  Well, I'm too nice, and they all got goodies, but the people that guessed girl got theirs first--baggies with chocolate cake mix cookies tied up with a pink ribbon.  You're welcome, Mylan employees....

Work was definitely stressful Monday--which ended with an afternoon of crying, which I can only blame on the fact that I'm carrying around another chick inside of me.  Double the estrogen.  But I kept from crying in front of anyone, which is what I really care about.  Life if tough, sometimes you just have to cry it out.

We had a successful experience with "Craig's List" online.  We needed space in our bedrooms upstairs, so we had to get rid of my futon from college.  I really didn't want to, but Adam convinced me that we need the space and if we need another futon once we move into a bigger house, we'll just buy one then.  So, with no Craig's List experience, we took pictures and put in an add to see if anyone wanted to buy it.  We have already had a few offers in two days--we just have to get someone to agree to pick it up--because we have no way of transporting it.

Tonight we went over to Kathy and Tony's house for dinner to celebrate Tony's birthday (which is Friday).  Liz and Tyler surprised us with a small gift for the baby--pink disney socks!  They are so cute!  Here's a pic:

Aren't they cute?!  We thought they were shoes at first because they have little plastic forms inside, but they are socks.  I'm sure more disney things will be coming soon since we're headed to Disney World in a month.  Kathy is really excited that she'll finally be able to buy little girl stuff at disney.  Having two boys doesn't exactly give you the opportunity to take care of the "disney princess" cravings that her and Tony have been having all of these years! 

Tomorrow we will be going to a wedding rehearsal for a wedding Saturday.  Adam is singing in it.  It was supposed to be both of us, but once they settled on the songs, we thought it would be best if only Adam sang them.  No need for me to stand up there for a few humms and ahhs.  It should be a fun time on Saturday.  Hopefully we can find some time to make it to the mall to get dress pants this weekend!  I'm still needing them and it's getting more and more challenging to fit into regular dress pants every day.  Oh--by the way, I really will try to get some belly pics on here soon!  We're taking them every wednesday, but with my camera, which means I have to have the time to open up the slow kodak program on our home computer, plug ion my camaera, dump them into the library, label them so I can find them, and then get them onto here somehow.  I'll do my best to get them on soon!

Going to bed in a few.  I'm starting to get really tired a lot again...not cool with that, but I probably need to try to slow down a bit.  Listen to my body.  ....or the little girl kicking me from the inside.  Oh yeah--she's been kicking me yesterday and today.  So either I am having a multitude of random gas (which is totally possible), or this little chick is having a tantrum.  I don't mind it now.  It reminds me that someone is in there.  Hopefully it won't get too annoying when it gets harder :-)

Good night!

Another busy week!

Another busy week in the books! 

I had a great time in Columbus last weekend at the Pampered Chef Fall Launch.  Friday night we ate at a great local resteraunt in German Village--The Old Mohawk.  I had a suprisingly great sandwich called the Mother Mohawk.  Grill roast beef and homemade chicken salad, topped with swiss cheese on marbled rye bread.  It was served with a carraway horseradish sauce.  Sounds really strange, right??  It was AMAZING!  I should have taken a picture, but once I tasted it, it was gone within minutes!  We finished up the evening with the Olympic opening ceremonies.  Saturday was a full day learning the new fall products waiting to come out.  I only saw a few new items that I'll just have to have--but unfortunately, it was the expensive ones!  Oh well, all in good time!  I also got to see all of the free products that will be coming in the mail that I earned from my July shows.  All of my hosts did REALLY well this past month, and in turn, I did really well.  Not only will I have a rockin commission check next week for July sales, but I earned around $600 worth of the new products on top of that.  Can't wait to get them and start playing with them!

Sunday, Adam and I loaded up and went to Kennywood--an amusement park in the Pittsburgh area.  No...I didn't ride anything :-)  Adam only rode one thing.  The radio station gave us free tickets and Adam did a quick spot on the show when we got there and we spent the rest of the time walking around or eating.  I was able to stand in line with Adam so he didn't have to wait to ride alone.  It was a fun time--but hot!  We were ready to be out of there when we left.

We stopped by a mall in Pittsburgh to do some maternity shopping on our way home.  I didn't fine anything there, but was able to load up on some other things at Target right next to the mall using some gift cards I still had from my birthday.  It was nice to be able to get what I needed.  Last thing on my list--Dress Pants!  I just can't find ones that fit well!  I'll just have to keep searching.  That is definitely the worst part of my week day---standing in front of my closet trying to decide which pair of dress pants I want to try to squeeze into for the day.  I'll make it to the Morgantown Mall soon--just need to make the time. 

Monday and Tuesday evening, I spent closing out the July Pampered Chef shows.  That was nice to get all of that taken care of.  Wednesday, we were able to go to a "welcome home" party for Jenn and Corey Smith who have been in Africa since around Christmas for Jenn's work/school.  Jenn is also pregnant--about a month behind me, so we had lots to talk about :-)  It was great getting to catch up some with them, as well as hang out with everyone else that was able to join us--making the Smith's favorite dishes to welcome them back. 

I don't really remember what we did on Thursday and Friday--though I know the Olympics were involved :-)  They're really addictive, and have been effecting my sleep this week.  Self Control Nicki!!!  They always put the interesting stuff around 10pm here, so we end up staying up way past when we should.  It's not helping my tired level every morning. 

Saturday we helped the Smith's get moved into the new place during the morning, and then Adam had to be at the church early afternoon to direct the weekend services.  I was able to use the afternoon to do some much needed weeding, cleaning the house, and finally get my hair dyed!  I've been putting it off for weeks and just hating my hair!  It is done....for now!

Today--I was the host in kidZONE, so I only had a page a script to memorize.  We had a fun time learning about the 39 kings of Israel and Judah--and which ones were good or bad!  Let me give you a hint....most of them were bad!

This week, we have been preparing ourselves for our ultrasound coming up on Tuesday.  Can't wait to see an actual baby in this belly.  I still haven't felt any movement myself, so I am really wanting to just make sure everything is ok in there--that there is plenty of room--and of course, if it's a boy a girl!  And no--I don't care what it is!  We're obviously trying to figure out what names we think will work, so I've been reading a few articles that suggest "picking methods".  Here's my favorite tip from what I've read:

"Consider your child's initials as well, so you don't inadvertently saddle him/her with a doozy like Z.I.T. or P.E.E."

Ha!  Does that actually happen??  I'll tell you it DEFINITELY won't happen to us!  I'll be trying to make the phone call rounds Tuesday night if they are able to tell us, so I won't keep you guys in the dark for long!

So, needless to say, I'm spending more and more time in the bathroom lately.  It's almost like, as I'm walking back to my desk, I'm thinking....should I go to the other bathroom, because I feel like I could go again.....How crazy is that?  Maybe I drink too much water?  Who knows.  Well--one time, I wandered into the restroom and this is what I found:

Ok--what you're looking at is a close up of the toilet.  What is that in there?  I think it has a WP on the card, which makes me think it's someone's hotel entry card for the Waterfront Place Hotel down the road.  I let out a little giggle and moved to another stall.  Should I be a good samaritan and fish it out, clean it off, and leave it on the bathroom counter?  I mean--I don't even know whose this is............In most situations...I would go the extra mile and do what needs to be done.  This.....is not most situations.  I left it....stalled until someone else came out of the restroom, went back in, and snapped this picture of it.  Yeah....no good samaratin here :-)  Hopefully it staying in there long enough for the right person to find it.  It was gone the next time I went in....so maybe someone got brave.  Or they called maintainance.  One or the other.

Another late night for me, but I got a lot accomplished tonight.  My office has been stocked with piles of paper that needed filing.  I got a majority of it done tonight with plans to do the rest this week.  I have got to get organized!  It will definitely help me feel more prepared to take care of another person.  I've also got to get going on other preparations for the baby.  Furniture, room stuff, birth classes--lots to do and I'm already half way through this pregnancy.  Wish me luck!