Baby shower is tomorrow. The planning is almost done. Good! It's been stressful and I'm not even the planner! This is the end of the 36 weeks. Yippee! I'm REALLY in home stretch now. Baby births from 37-40 are considered FULL TERM! Woohoo. 40 to 42 weeks is considered post term. Post term? Who the heck wants a late baby? If I was 42 weeks pregnant, I'd be jumping around and eating all sorts of stuff in an attempt to jumpstart labor. Although I'm now on modified bedrest, I still haven't had any fun because between doing things for the baby shower and trying not to go into labor BEFORE the shower, I haven't had much leeway. Next week, I'm going to go to the movies, and maybe have a dinner out with Mark (since we won't need a babysitter). Gotta get some date nights in there - these are our last days as married bachelors.
Mark's been busy painting some old furniture for the baby's room. The family left behind some old brown wood pieces that he's painted white. We got a couple things from Ikea earlier in the week, so we might be finished with baby room purchases. We skipped the showroom, as I always do, and went directly to the warehouse part of Ikea and still it took us about 30+ minutes trying to find what we needed, that I'd already seen online, but had a tough time finding. Afterwards, just standing that long gave me cramps for the duration of the night. First sign that off of bedrest doesn't mean much anymore. Now that I've been set free, nature's hemming me up anyhow. There are natural limits to how much I can do since I'm so much less flexible and energetic.
I tried to dust the other day and accidentally sprayed a little pledge on our wood floor and later, BLAMMO! I fell so quickly that I didn't notice I was falling, I only knew that I had already fallen once I looked up at the room as I sat on my left buttock, dazed. It pissed me off, scared me a little and definitely hurt my pride. I haven't fallen like that since I was a little kid. But I read online that falling at this point of pregnancy is super common because your center of balance is off and the pledge didn't help. I had to Murphy's Oil Soap the floor to get it back to being tacky enough to walk on with socks. But I still look at the wooden step-up landing with a bit of contempt every time I walk that way. LOL.
The baby shower is sort of a housewarming of sorts because it's the first time most people will have seen our new digs. So it's been more stressful because we're trying to get everything all perfect. My definition of perfect, however, is fading fast. I'm learning to lower my standards, which I hear is a good thing in preparation for motherhood. I mopped a floor yesterday and ended with 'good enough'. I wasn't about to get on my knees and scrub corners - whatever the swifter got, it got. Mark does tons of stuff around the house, but it's just too much for one person so now that I am allowed to move, I sneak and do housework when he's away at work. I got in trouble about the pledge and dusting, though. "Why were you dusting? What were you dusting?" I pointed to the plantation blinds and he said, "what wrong with them?" And I silently replied, "that why it was I who was dusting! " He didn't even see the dirt that was caked on. The lady before was nice, but nobody's housekeeper. I'm not big on it either, but there are just things I can't ignore and she was a little better at ignoring stuff. Like the 1950s kitchen and bathroom that has never been updated. This house is like a jiggier, smaller version of my parents' (now my mom's) house back in Missouri. It's cute, but nobody bothered to update the obvious. The addition is all cute because it was built later, but the rest of the stuff is pretty much standard issue original. No ventilation in the kitchen and not a screen window to be found in the front half of the house. When I cook, it smells like a chinese restaurant for the next 2 hours. We're working on that with the management company.
My knitting has goten pretty good. I can knit and perl and I'm making a scarf while waiting for the special velour yarn for the baby's blanket to come. I ran out of it and forgot it's only available online. Here's my latest scarf:
I've figured out that stockinette stitch rolls up, so I put a border or garter around the edges of the scarf to make it lie flat.
That's it. Hopefully I'll be back with pictures from the shower. Happy weekend.
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