I'm at 38+ weeks and feeling good!  My biggest pain right now are the people who since just past 30 weeks have been asking me, "Aren't you ready to get that baby out yet??"  Are you kidding me??  Why yes, of course!  My comfort is soooo much more important than having a healthy baby!  Let's get that baby out and put him in the NICU so that HE can be the uncomfortable one, instead of me just finishing out the pregnancy and letting him grow until he's ready to come on out!  Seriously, do people even realize how selfish that is?  

Getting to 38 weeks to me, is a huge blessing, regardless of whatever discomforts that I may have.  Having had one preterm baby who spent 2 weeks in NICU and struggles with health issues today as a result, I am not the least bit amused by peoples dumb comments, nor am I the least bit interested in rushing any baby out of the womb sooner than he/she is ready.  People need to stop being so narcissistic and let the babies grow until their time comes and be thankful for every day they have 'on the inside' to be fully mature and ready to come on out.  Put your own selfish needs aside for goodness sakes and suck it up and deal with it!

Not much longer now, and as always I remain…. patient.  

Our old house is a bit of a patchwork.  The main part was initially a one room farm house with a wood burning stove for cooking and warmth, built about 140 years ago.  Throughout the years, various rooms have been added on around that room, and above as the family grew and more modern amenities were added on.

My upstairs was built sometime in the 1960's, and as evidence of that, when we moved in, it had this lovely linoleum tile still in place: 

I've always hated that ugly floor.  I hated the way it looked, the way it felt on my feet, the way it made all my hard work of fixing up the other areas of the room less attractive than they should have been just by virtue of being in the same room with it!  

After 6 years here, I was finally able to be in a position to get it changed - financially, motivationally, etc. - and that was my project for this weekend!!  It was not without hormonal late pregnancy tears, but I got it done!  Mike had to take the doors off the hinges and saw off a 1/2 inch at the bottom of each, but no matter what, I am absolutely thrilled to have it done finally!! 

Everyone in the family has actually been excited about it!  All of us are spending more time in that room playing, working, and just hanging out than we ever did before.  In a way, we've gotten a whole new room on the house just by making it a nice place to be!  I'm thrilled.  Each morning (and 3 bathroom trips in the night!) when I step out of my bedroom onto that carpet, it's such a blessing to not feel that cold vinyl underfoot! 

After that big project, I didn't have much energy for anything else left, but I started working on a baby wearing sling.  I didn't get too far, so I'm hoping to be able to complete it next weekend - along with a million other things that are on my list that have to be done to be ready for this baby!!

It's coming up soon.   Part of me is getting really worn down and tired and just "over" being pregnant, but then at other times I feel completely unprepared and so "not yet!!" about it.  I know he'll come when he comes and it'll all be fine in the end, but I've got the last minute panic and frenzy to prepare right now. 

Only 2 more weekends to go to get things accomplished….. 

We're really getting close now!  Less than 4 weeks to go until this newest little one makes his grand appearance.  Honestly, it still hasn't entirely sunk in that we're going to have a BABY here soon.  It's still quite shocking at times!

I spent the last weekend getting my 'nest' in order.  I filled a drawer full of baby clothes, a winter baby coat, blankets, burb clothes, tiny socks and hats.  I had forgotten just how tiny everything is.  It's unbelievable that an actual human can fit into those teensy things!

There was dusting, vacuuming, spot cleaning on the carpets,  burning nice scented candles, tossing and decluttering and reorganizing…  it sounds a lot like nesting, but I don't think it was true nesting.  True nesting would have not left me so exhausted that by Sunday, I was so tired that I, yes, even I was too tired to do anything but rest.  That's not like me normally, much less with nesting.  When my real nesting kicks in, it takes nothing short of a defensive line, duct tape and possibly a straight jacket to hold me down.

We've got lots of our supplies bought, but we're still bringing in more.  I had a moment of panic when I realized that we had nearly everything that we need on hand for a birth, but no diapers!  Mike had to remind me that we still had time to pick up some diapers before I got too nutty.  

Probably the highlight of the week was getting our doppler in!   It was nice to finally hear the baby's heart beat.  We rent one toward the end of our UP/UC pregnancies so that we can get a base line for normal and then monitor the baby throughout the labor.  The whole family enjoyed getting a listen. 

For more of my 'things I must get done before this baby arrives madness' check in next week.  I'll be attempting to lay new carpet on my upstairs landing, and sew up a baby wearing sling.  See you then!