The Nursery

The nursery is FINALLY finished!!  I was able to snap a few pictures of it today when the sun was finally out.  I believe this is my favorite room in the house now. 

Negative Nancy Post - Warning

It’s official.  I’m ready to be on maternity leave.  I have been pretty proud of myself not to be the “hormonal” pregnant woman, to let things get to me (mainly at work), but I’m to the point where I just want to be at home doing nothing.  I’ll admit that I’m having a hard time focusing on work and keeping comments to myself and not snapping at people. 

I still need to get the pictures hung in the nursery, do some final straightening up in there, and make sure I have everything ready.  I have the diaper bag pack, I think.  I’m just waiting on Mom to finish her coming home dress; she works better under pressure so I’m sure she will be bringing it to me in the hospital.

I haven’t even thought about packing my bag yet. I really don’t even know what to pack in it.  Any suggestions?  I don’t see a point when I have yet to dilate at all.  II will be that woman who either is running around packing my bag if I go into labor at home or will be packing it on Dec. 26th before he puts me in that night.  Yep, that’s right ladies and gentlemen, I am official on the schedule to be put in on the night of Dec. 26th and to be induce on the 27th!  I think that Dr. Hudson doesn’t think I’ll have it before then so he went ahead and put me on the schedule for that day.  Yeah, I know that being induce typically causes more pain, but at this point I do not care, that’s what the epidural is for!  I tried my best to get him to induce me earlier, but he won’t budge.  At least he is willing to do it on my due date and not make me go any longer!!  I can suffer that much longer; I think. 

This week Zoey has decided that she wants to curl up into some type of tight ball or something and not move.  She has yet to drop so it’s right near the top and it hurts like hell.  Thankfully today she seems to have moved out of that spot, but goes right back to it during the night which causes for me to hurt greatly and wake up very uncomfortable.  I long for the night when I can sleep on my stomach (even though I’m not a stomach sleeper).

Last weekend we did get the house all decorated for Christmas. I’ll post pictures this weekend.  Brian was good up until putting the lights on the tree.  I swear it’s a genetic wiring for all men to get bent out of shape when putting on Christmas lights.  I don’t get it. Sure it’s time consuming, but it’s not that big of a deal.  I ended up helping to make sure it went smoothly.  This year hasn’t been as much fun for me nor have I wanted to get all into the Christmas spirit.  Typically the night after the tree goes up I wrap gifts, but this year they are still sitting in their pile in the dining room waiting to be wrapped. I just do not have the motivation to do it.  Maybe I’ll get to it this weekend. 

I apologize for the Negative Nancy post.  Please don’t hate me or think I’m too crazy!

Where in the world is Leah?

Wow, I cannot believe it’s been almost a month since I last posted.  Things have been a little crazy around here.  I know in the next few weeks it will be even more crazy! Here is a long recap of what we have been up to.

Two weeks ago was my 28 week check up and the lovely glucose test.  OH MY.  All I have to say is it sucked.  I barely choked down the lovely flat fruit punch “drink” in the allotted 10 minutes.  I felt worse after drinking the crap than I did going without food that morning. When I was waiting to see Dr. Hudson, I looked down at my hands at some point and they were very pale.  I can only imagine what my face looked like. I swear my blood sugar dropped more after drinking that crap than going up.  I really thought I was going to be starving afterwards, but by the time I left the office, I was no longer hungry.  The visit was great, I’m not anemic and I passed my test.  Well, I should say I’m assuming I did since it’s been 2 weeks and I never heard from them saying I failed.  Woo hoo!  Funny how now that I have that out of the way, I want cupcakes!  I guess I was more cautious about watching my intake of sweets than I realized. 

Last week (ok now it has been 2 weeks since I first started this post) I was in Seattle for SQL PASS.  Yes, I know.  I’m a geek, but I love it!  I had a good time and my brain was ready for me to come back.  It has been a long time since I sat in a classroom for 8 hours (not all back to back, but total) learning things.  It’s a lot different than working 8 hours a day.  Brian was able to take a week of vacation to come with me.  Granted he had more fun than I did and was able to see Seattle more, but we did get to do a few things at night. 

Here are a few pictures from the trip.

Before we left for Seattle, the nursery bedding was finally read and we picked it up.  I can’t wait to share it all set up with you!

I’m hoping by the middle of November to have the nursery all set up.  I find it amazing that I haven’t freaked out yet about it not being all ready.  We are ripping up carpet and moving furniture around this weekend.  I still have to figure out what all to put on the walls.  I do have a plan for some art work, aka initials, but other than zero ideas. 

This week (last week) starts my bi-weekly doctor’s appointments.  Yep, that means we only have 10 WEEKS left!  I’m sure going every 2 weeks will help speed up time, plus the holidays are about to be in full swing. 

Friday (last Friday) Mom and DeAnne are coming in town to go to Celebration Village.  Maybe I can add a few more gifts to my Christmas pile.  I have a good start on it, but not near where I was hoping to be by this time. 

90 days!

Technically today it’s 89, but go with me on this.  Hard to believe that it’s already been 27 weeks.  I thought I didn’t start the 3rd trimester until 28 weeks, so it sort of caught me off guard yesterday when I check my phone app and it said 3rd trimester. Time still seems to be crawling by for me, I feel like it’s been forever and a day since I found out I was pregnant and it feels like forever and a day before it will be over. 

I finally got brave and took a picture of me.  Not the greatest, but I just took it in a hurry this morning. 

Overall I’m doing great.  As much as I’m not honestly a fan of being pregnant, I can’t complain too much as I have had a pretty easy time.  I’m sure I have said it before, but I’m honestly surprised at how pregnancy has treated me.  I just knew I would blow up and be HUGE, have such a horrible time dealing with it, etc., but it really hasn’t been bad at all.  I believe I have gained 5 of the 10 pounds I lost back, so I’m still doing pretty good in that case. Only issues I have is not being able to sleep 100% well at night and the occasional heartburn now.  I go in for my glucose test next Tuesday, joy.  I’m not looking forward to this AT ALL.  I’m mainly afraid of getting sick while drinking the crap or waiting the hour.  Going without food that long is not very pleasant for a pregnant lady. 

Tuesday I can pick up the nursery bedding.  I’m anxious to see how it turned out.  Now just to finish that room and get the furniture in.  By the second weekend in November, the nursery should be 90% done.  I still need to decide what all I want to put on the walls.  I know I’m going to do canvases with her initials on them, depending how it looks, I’m going to hang the picture of the 3 fairies godmothers from Sleeping Beauty which DeAnne did for me a few years ago, and maybe a couple other things.  OH!  We did finally pick up an overhead light for the room.  The room has gone without one for 3 years now.  Brian actually picked it out, it’s a pretty little chandelier.  It will add a little fru-fru touch to it.  It will be odd to actually use the light switch instead of turning on lamps.  

I jumped on the bandwagon

I made my first Etsy purchase yesterday.  I have been holding out due to there is WAY too much on that site I want and then feel like I can just make it myself.  Plus I know I can easily get carried away. 

I decided to jump on the new happening trend for babies.  I toyed with the idea of doing something different and making my own thing, but then I thought why not just do the simple way.

Here are the month by month stickers I picked out for Zoey.  Now, just hope I remember to actually do this each month.  I opted for the addition 13th sticker of the “Just Born” as well in the same set.  Yes, I know I’m silly.

Then of course I stumbled across these and thought they were cute, so off they went on their way to my door step.

On the pregnancy note, I finally have a little baby bump.  Although I still feel as thought I just look fat.  Blah.  Last night I went to picked up a few maternity clothes…not a fan of buying at all.  I still can wear all my normal clothes, but I do need a few new fun shirts.  Tuesday was the 25 weeks mark.  Hard to believe we have 15 weeks left.  I’m still feeling great and all.  I think I might have gain a pound back of the initial pounds I lost, I’m still doing good on the weight gain.  My next appointment is the dreaded sugar test, blah.  I am not looking forward to this at all. I’m so scared I’m going to fail it, although I hardly eat many sweets, I do crave carbs.  Stupid hidden sugar. I’m hoping I pass it so I don’t have to worry about watching what I eat while in Seattle.  I think after my next appointment I’ll start going every 2 weeks, crazy.  We still need to finish painting and replacing the carpet in the nursery, oh and get an overhead light.  Shouldn’t take us too long but just finding the time is the issue.  Maybe in 2 months I’ll have pictures ready to share with everyone of the nursery!