Less than 35 days to go!

35 weeks, 2 days

Ok, just a quick note on this picture here. It makes me look HUGE! My shirt is just falling weird and by no means do I look that big! However, you can sort of get a glimpse of my new haircut. Ashamedly, it's been 17 months since I last got a haircut - Ben was 3 months old!! How crazy is that? Nothing dramatic this time (usually I chop it all off), just cut off all the dead ends and added some layers to change it up a bit.

Anyways, NUTSO FACTO, that's what I'm calling my day today. I don't even know what that means but it sounds good. By 9am I was almost having my own 29-year-old meltdown to go with Ben's. That kid drives me nuts some times. He woke up too early was his problem and then he just couldn't hack it by 8:30am. So this entails lots of "mommy, mommy, mommy" and clinging to me like a third leg. Sometimes I just want to shake him off like he was a rabid dog, I swear!!! Daddy picked up on the near-mommy meltdown and offered to take the kids off on an adventure which was great because I had envisioned a Sunday of getting things done and not sitting around trying to tame my fussy child with Doodlebops.

Some weeks ago I had a reached the height of overwhelm-dom about getting stuff ready for the baby. There just seemed like way too many things that needed to get found, pulled out, cleaned, etc and so instead of beginning I just kept putting it off and putting it off. So now, with something like 32 days to go (if he even stays in there that long) I was reaching hysteria! Once Eric and the kids left I decided to tackle some of my to-do list (some baby related, some not). We're also in the process of our trying - emphasis on trying - to make our house into a home. We feel like we're running out of time on a bunch of stuff since I obviously don't want major things happening in the house when the baby is born. I'm already deathly afraid I'll go into labor while people are here installing, deliverings, or fixing x, y, or z.

Anyways, I roared into pyscho-schitzo mode this morning and started all sorts of tasks before actually finishing any one of them. I hopped, skipped, and jumped from here to there, back to here, in a totally lunatic fashion. Really, I have no idea why I did this - must be a pregnancy thing. As I'm sure I've mentioned before, I come from a long line of pack rats and there is a primitive instinct that rebels against this in me. I try to keep nothing I don't need. Now, of course, "not needing" something is all relative, but I do honestly try to give away, throw away, ebay, whatever it is I haven't used in over a year :) I have a harder time getting rid of some things but I sometimes get those rare occasions when everything MUST go and I don't hesitate to get rid of anything!! Love those days.

So I accomplished a great deal. The baby now has a sparkling clean bassinet, baby tub, car seat, bouncy chair, sheets, clothes, blankets, and burp clothes. I could actually HAVE a baby now and feel prepared (except diapers - those are easy though). I also cleaned the bathrooms, some bath toys and the little potty and rearranged/cleaned out the downstairs hallway closet since I'm reinventing it as a "utility closet" now that we have the mudroom closet for coats and shoes. The little potty is for Ben. It was kind of ickily put away before so I felt the need to scrub it with bleach and set it out for him to observe. But let's not be fooled here, I'm not an idiot. This is my second child and I'm under no silly illusions this time - I'm not even going to attempt to potty train Ben until next summer - LATE summer. Moving on...

My proudest accomplishment of the day was getting rid of the ant farm. Yes, folks, I've had dead ants sitting in a farm on top a bookcase in my family room for the past 3+ months. It was a good idea that little farm but the little buggers didn't last long. This should be a LARGE red flag for the dog we want to get one day since I can't even keep ants alive. Yet the dog will come, mark my words. Anyways, in the ant's farm place I finally dusted off a collage of frames that have our wedding pictures in it. I've had this frame for a good 5 years at least and never once have I had the opportunity to display it!

Ok, it's getting late and I need to try and get some sleep in case my kids wake up whiney again tomorrow. Until next time, fellow readers...