22-6-2009 - The final countdown!

My mood while writing this blog: Excited and ready....or not???

Well, tomorrow will be 37 weeks, which from what I hear is fully cooked or in other words full term. In fact my daughter was born, over eight years ago, at 37 weeks, so it could be any day now. I have an appointment tomorrow and am excited to hear any news. This is probably one of the only times in life when it is exciting to go to "those type of appointments"

So, I am ready to meet our little boy, I am getting really excited now and have seen some of the girls leaving already (by leaving I mean moving on to the parenting pages). We have rented out our apartment and it looks like everything should be cleared up with that crazy mess from my last blog by fourth of July weekend. We are going to stay where we are for one more year and forego the renovations and major move right before the baby shows up. I am sure it will be much more fun with a one year old running around!!!!!

I have been feeling pretty good. Sleeping is a thing of the past and my back and pretty much everything else feels as though I am 100 years old, but I just keep reminding myself that it is only a matter of time now and it will all be worth it. I think that the lack of sleep is good, because I am already used to it and functioning quite well, so I am not a worried about the crying baby, BRING IT ON!!!!!! I already have all the late night shows scheduled.

I am in the process of trying to get everything ready to be out of work and just met with me "replacement" today. She is only taking over for a few weeks and will likely be calling me on a daily basis, but at least I won't have to be in the office. I feel like there is just so much to do before I can leave work and with the whole apartment mess (from the last blog) I didn't even think of it until now. This is making me crazy because our little buddy could come tomorrow..... and then what!?!?!?! I guess it would have to be figured out!

I guess the last thing that is on my mind right now is not having everything ready for the little guy. That is why I am feeling ready (can't wait to be done with the pregnancy and meet him) or not (don't have everything we need yet). I still have not had a baby shower. I know that my sister is throwing one, but she is REALLY running out of time and nobody will tell me when it is! We bought a crib (months ago) and I got blankets and such, I went out this weekend and got some diapers and wipes and with me he had food......but because I can see on the registry that someone has purchased the "travel system" we don't have the car seat yet. It is floating around in gift land somewhere! I told DH that we would just have to stay in the hospital until the shower. Of course my DH knows when the shower is and won't tell me and assures me that everything will be just fine (RIGHT!!!!).

So, guess that is about it. I will try to get one more update on here before the big day, but since I don't know when that will be......this may be the last, fingers crossed ;o)

Good luck to everyone! I can't wait to start reading the birth stories at home with our little boy!!!!!!!!!!!