Nearing the third trimester and starting to feel the need to nest! Of course, a lot of the cleaning I did yesterday was to get ready for my Park Lane party, but it felt good to get it all done. The kitchen and living room look fantastic! The kitchen cupboards do need a good cleanout though, and probably some reorganization. It's time for that anyway, whether I'm turning into a cleaning freak or not. I know there were mice in there.
The dresser/changing table that mom used for me is now at my house filled with clothes! One of mom's friends from church gave us 2 large tubs of hand-me-down baby girl clothes and after a full day of sorting it looks like we're pretty much set for clothes from preemie to 9mo size! Of course, some of those are seasonal so it might not work depending on when it fits her, but we can't know that for sure yet. We can fill in around the edges as we need to. Unfortunately, the dresser doesn't quite fit in the bedroom where I wanted to put it and there aren't any other corners that I can move it to that would work any better, so it will probably have to go to the office. I guess that's alright, since her toys will have to live in there too, so it can be a half-nursery. Changings will be less likely to wake up whoever is napping that way too. It should probably work fine, it just requires a little rearranging of the office and a plan for toy storage. I think there's a cube shelving system with cloth drawers at Target that will work about perfectly for what we need to do. :) I'm thinking it over in the back of my mind until I figure out exactly how to make that work.
I also have mom's old sewing machine now so I can get started on wipes and burp rags! She offered it to me a few years ago but I was still moving too much to make it worth the trouble so we both thought she had given it away or sold it or something but it was up in the garage attic. It just needs to be dusted off and it'll work fine for my purposes. We also took all of my old baby clothes (which I used for dolls for years and years) and toys down from the attic also, cleaned it all up, and moved it up to my house. I'll be selling a good number of the stuffed animals that are still in excellent shape. I'm sure she'll accumulate enough toys on her own without having a stash of mine to start with! We could definitely use the extra cash too. That will probably sometime in May but we haven't figured out a day yet. We probably need to take the SmartPots stuff too so Mom and I need to get planning on that. I think I can get a bunch of baby furniture from a former neighbor for super cheap, so I'm just waiting to hear back from her on what all is included to see whether I'd need it all or not. Not much point in buying something I won't need, even if it's for ridiculously cheap. I'd probably just try to turn around and sell it anyway considering how little space we have to work with.
The birth class DVD/CD set came! Mom has watched more of it than I have, but she's had a lot more free time this last week since I have. I watched the toning video and it's not so much an exercise video as it is a demonstration of exercises that should be done throughout the day every day. That's good, although I probably won't get the recommended number of each exercise done. Ever. Last night I got my yoga out and did that, it was much easier this time than it was the last few times I tried to do it. I think Jelly Bean is now vertical instead of diagonal so it's much easier to move around and my ab muscles actually work again! I just need to step up the exercising and do little things occasionally at work. Hopefully she's head down, but she has time to turn if not. I always feel thumps low, middle, and high, so I can never really tell which end is feet and which end is head. At least it's not such a chore just sitting up like it has been for the last couple of months. That will make exercising easier.
Update on B: He continues to feel better and better every day without the tube but his side is still draining a lot of infection. He went to see Dr. G on Monday, who told us that he could do the procedure. Words from his mouth: "I used to do these all the time at the university." Ummmmmm... what??? Why were you trying to pawn us off on someone else then??? Why didn't we do this surgery a month ago when we knew the drain wasn't working? We were dumbstruck when he said that but at this point we just want it done and we're happy to not deal with another hospital's worth of bills. It's out of control enough already. So, they checked his blood work for elevated white blood cell count, which it obviously was a little high considering he's still actively draining infection out of his side... why did they even bother? They then waited 2 hours to call us back and tell us he needed a CT scan the next day instead of in 2 weeks. They should've just done it all on Monday and skipped the blood work, honestly, so we were pretty upset with him after that considering how much of a pain it is to run up there every day. Nothing new came up on the CT scan we guess, since we didn't hear anything afterward, but Dr. G should be getting ahold of us in the next week or so to schedule the surgery and get all this over with. Three months of this is really getting old... pretty much my entire second trimester has been spent dealing with it. We just need him healed! Hopefully the surgery will take care of it and we can call it done.
I had my glucose tolerance test yesterday and I'm guessing since I haven't heard anything back that it was fine. If it was way out of whack, I'm sure Dr. B would've called right away to get me scheduled to take the 3-hour test. Hopefully all is well, but maybe I'll call just to make sure. Drinking that stuff made me feel pretty bad... I was almost certain I was reacting to it for a while. Guess we'll see what they say.
My Park Lane party last night went pretty well, considering only three people came. It was fun! Maybe I can get a couple more orders pulled together this week and qualify to sign up as a rep, so I'll try for that. If you want, look at http://www.jewelsbyparklane.com/ and let me know what pieces you like and we can work it out from there. The online catalog doesn't show prices but the final pricing also depends on what bonus buys and free items you can get, so don't hesitate to ask and I'll figure it out for you. I'll close out my party on Sunday or Monday and if I can get a few more orders in by then I'll have a good shot at getting started with this as a business. Remember, graduations and Mother's Day are coming up, so don't look just for you! /end shameless plug. lol!
One more concert to go, which is a one-weekend thing in Gillette, but the crunch time to the Mahler is over. Sigh of relief! That concert was hard! This means I can relax, focus on prepping for July, bump up the exercising, all these things I need to be doing better. Tonight I fully intend to be lazy. Maybe yoga again. Sounds good to me!
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