The Preparation Phase

Last week was a bit rough because I had a small fear that I would go into labor when D wasn't here but now that fear is gone because he's back. And along with it is the feeling of being slightly back to normal. I feel like I can be active like I like to be and not worry about going to go into labor because it would be just fine. (Last week I was trying to limit myself.)

FYI, when Darren came home, he got to work putting our new bed frame together (we haven't had one in 8 years of marriage) and putting the glider together too. We also ditched our box spring onto our "porch" which looks just lovely as it waits to be picked up by the rubbish folks on Wednesday. We are downsizing and hopefully upsizing to the right things. I find myself endlessly preparing and I endeavor to not do any of that tonight, I just want to relax. I'm done with window washing (where were you Dan?) and painting for now and I long for my regular thoughts and endeavors. So alas, I am off to reclaim them. It's exciting to think about baby this and that but then it does get boring after a while. It's been fun to see our particular flat as home for a while and to try to make the most of it though it is quite shabby in certain areas. Our neighbors have been particularly neighborly to be around (the warmer weather always helps) and every day I open the door to the primary school boys upstairs who want to borrow J's scooter. They are so amazingly polite and I love that we can share things and that scooter time means they are outside living it up and not inside being depressed or watching gobs of tv. By the way, daffodils are out in full force all over the place. That means Luci is busy picking them and the world here is soooooo much prettier. It's an amazing transformation that has taken place in the last 2 weeks.

Anyways, here's some pics of the baby room in progress. You can see Jesse nursing, Luci looking colorful, and Jesse reading to Luci in the new glider.