Soooo there are at least 2 kinds of responses to the "nesting" impulse that pregnant couples are told commonly occurs in the final weeks leading up to baby birthing day . . . SOME people do things like wash baby clothes and sheets, organize said washed baby clothes in adorable piles totally negating functionality, eat massive amounts of leftover chocolate raspberry cake, shop online, and eat more cake . . .
OTHER people rip apart the guest room and sunporch in order to refinish hundred year old weight-hung windows and scrape, spackle, prime, and repaint 2 rooms 3 WEEKS BEFORE THE DUE DATE OF THEIR FIRSTBORN.
Can you guess who is who in this scenario? (Hint* Jesse eats cake too, but not THAT much cake . . .)
Hence, we have stacks of old windows out in the garage, guest room furniture all over the house, and the baby room looks like a blackhole.
There is light at the end of the tunnel however. Jesse is officially on vacation (yay!!!) AND tenured (double yay!!) for next year (which gives us piece of mind in a job market where teachers at the school next door are emptying their desks AND their homes into the same Uhaul because no job = no mortgage) so he is free as a bird to get those projects moving along. I've got 3 more days of Clinic II spread out over next week, so my official last day is Friday July 2nd. I've been sending Rainy mental messages that I need at least 1 week after that and then she can make her grand entrance! We'll see . . . if she decides to stay in there PAST the due date, we could count this as her first act of defiance towards her Momma.
On another note, our backyard is lush and growing. We also got a new addition to our blueberry bush family 2 weeks ago - a friend of ours from the farm sent us over a bush as a thank-you for hosting the POD again this year. So now we have 3 - it is officially a blueberry grove now! No ripe berries on the new bush yet, but this past week we've been sampling dark blue beauties from our first 2 from Renee and Ellie - our Blueberry Girl will have plenty to harvest in the coming years!
We also enjoyed a visit from Johnny and Ileana - busrides too and from Brooklyn are not pleasant but we were grateful they could make the trip! Our weekend was a mixture of house work and relaxing and lots of good food - bread and cake and CSA greens were in abundance :)
That's all for now - I'll do a 37 week update in the next few days since my week will be a little lighter than it has been of late . . . . Love to you all!
4 comments:
caitlin/jess...you guys are working soooo hard...take a little time to relax and enjoy!!!!, you will both be very busy, very sooon...caitlin, you look terrific...jess, you've become such a "handy guy"....you must be soo proud of all you've accomplished......looks terrific!...xoxomom
You look adorable! And your house looks fantastic as well. Good luck the rest of this week in clinic and enjoy some time off (even if it is just a little) before your beautiful daughter arrives. Also, I can't wait to hear how the cloth diapers work out for you and Jessie. Josh and I are investigating this option as well :)
Carrie, we'll let you know how it goes!!
The scenario you described sounds way too familiar!! ( although I don't remember folding baby clothes, OR washing them.
If Rainy takes longer than the week, Maybe she wouldn't be being defiant, just over compensating. You, Jesse, the yard, everything looks great!!!!Enjoy, and let us know when you might want to see us. Everybody has different philosophies on that topic, so you let us know what works for both of you.
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