Being Busy...

So here I am one month and one day before Baby M’s due date. I feel like there is a ton to do and each day I keep stacking more and more on my plate which I am sure will lead to ultimate failure. However, I feel like certain things need to be done, such as organizing the laundry room shelves; shelves that were already perfectly organized before. This must have to do with what they call “nesting”. But it doesn’t totally make sense. Here I am exhausted, riddled with emotions, not sleeping well, and fairly uncomfortable, but I continue to make my to do, to buy, to clean, to organize lists longer and longer.

In the mean time, the kitchen is almost totally finished. We still need to redo the floors, paint the molding and trim with another coat of white and pick out a backsplash. All things we had wanted to do before October, but looks like it might have to wait until Ryan takes his maternity leave.

Let us not forget what the kitchen has looked like the last two years, thank you to my Harley-Davidson husband. It was nice while it lasted...ha.

BEFORE

AFTER

I’ve also felt quite crafty these last few weeks. It started with decorating, then went to scrapbooking (which I am still up to my waist in) and has continued on to sewing. A friend started making baby toys for her daughter and I feel in love with them, so I figured I would try my hand at my own. By hand I mean hand sewing…which has led me to add sewing machine to my to buy list…The toys are a work in progress, but will be, yet another thing to keep me busy this next month and one day!

Bun in the Sun

 

We survived our week long stay in Maui, which means, I survived the seven hours of being trapped in an airplane as well as a red eye flight back home. We arrived at 9pm Maui time – 12am Washington time – and met my parents and sister and her boyfriend for dinner. I was beyond exhausted and looking forward to getting out of the humid heat, putting my swollen feet up and lying down in a bed. Much to my surprise, this Hawaiian condo we stayed at failed to mention online that it lacks one very, very important thing for a pregnant woman – air conditioning. I’d like to complain more about it; however, the fact that I was able to go to Maui, being eight months pregnant, for seven days, leaves me no room to complain.

The six of us, plus the lil pea in the pod, made our way to a different beach each day. And I was even able to go snorkeling, which proved to be difficult and quite tiring on both my lungs and body, but well worth it! Ryan suggested we follow the famous “Road to Hana” and go visit old Hawaii. Seemed like a great idea, it was only a 51 mile trek there…that took three plus hours because of the one-lane road, steep cliffs and switchbacks. If our marriage survived that, it can survive anything because being in a car for over three hours, swerving back and forth, stopping every few miles to let cars by and edges that looked like they were going to give is truly not my idea of a good time. We also treated my parents to the Black Rock Luau, which was amazing. Buffet style dinner (always a plus during pregnancy) and great entertainment made for a memorable night for all of us.

Unfortunitly like all good things, our babymoon to Maui came to an end and we found ourselves boarding a fairly small plane for a red eye flight to San Fransisco. As our last prebaby vacation, I’d say it was an overall success. Great time, great company, great food, great memories and great weather.

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes...

Little known fact: Somewhere before "then comes baby in a baby carriage," a line went missing. Though the exact wording is unknown, I think it went something like: "then comes Mom and Dad's last hurrah someplace fabulous." And thus was born the BABYMOON.


Although some might advise not to fly in the last trimester of pregnancy, I've been given the all clear to jump aboard a plane and enjoy a "last hurrah" with Ryan, my parents, sister and her boyfriend. The trip promised almost 3 years ago, and planned about a year ago, did not see a baby in our near future, so we could we could say timing was really bad for this trip or that it is really great. With the “okay” to fly, I am going to say it was really great. In one week, the six of us, all leaving from different airports will head to the island of Maui where I hear that mornings of birdsong swell into days of pure exhilaration. In one week, at 33 weeks pregnant, we head out to enjoy our Babymoon in Hawaii!

All Good Things Must Come To An End

Today has been an incredibly productive day…after bath time for our dirty puppy, Agape, we got started on the long list of house projects that have been piling up for oh, two years… When we first moved in to this house every room was painted. We had a bright pink room, a bright red/tan room, a light blue room, a dark green room, a purple room and a main color of tan. It was a little much if you ask me. So over these last two years we have slowly been painting and trying to cover up the crazy color palette the previous owners created. Recently we finished painting our pool table/bar rooms (which have yet to see a pool table or bar) and replaced old white carpet with laminate flooring.

Today I finally convinced my handy man to hang some of the pictures and decorations I’ve collected over the last few months.

 

- I'd like to thank Kim for most of the ideas and inspiration -

 

...the day is still not over...my handy man turned painter has decided to make the ultimate sacrifice. Say bye-bye to the oh so beautiful Harley Davidson kitchen. All good things must come to an end.

Beat The Heat

Days like today make me so thankful for air conditioning. Not a huge fan of heat, pregnancy makes me actually kind of dislike hate it. Thankfully I don’t have to be outside and have more than enough inside to keep me busy until next month. After a quick outing with Ryan to grab lunch at the Saturday Market and a few things for tomorrow’s dinner with his parents, I got the urge to clean house and organize some of what was in the nursery. With Ryan off to work and the house clean I stepped in to the half-finished nursery. It has come a long way… Once a bright pink room; now layered with 3 coats of white paint and brown stripes. Must be neutral!

Carlie came and helped seeing as my husband was MIA at work

After two days of painting...the bottom half is finished!

Now we have furniture

With seven weeks left to go, I must say, I feel pretty prepared for this little baby to come. Minus the fact we have saved some, such as picking out a cribset and buying a majority of the clothes, until we find out if this incredibly active and strong baby is a little Prince or Princess! I am still collecting "must haves" for the room, but once again, very hard to do when you can't just boy or just girl decorations. Until then I have tons of ideas saved in my mind for what I would like to do!

New beginnings

I’ve finally caved and decided to start my journey in this “blog world”. Like in just about every other aspect of my life, this is also a new beginning. I’ve recently found myself married to my best friend and man of my dreams, turning a bachelor pad into a home and preparing for a little baby who will make its debut in October.

As if one pregnancy test was not enough...

I took three, maybe five. Just to be sure.

Since that day, life has been a whirlwind of change, BIG change.