All We Need Now Is The Baby

I know by now my whining sucks. So I'll try not to complain too much about how tired I am and how ready to be done I am. I have managed to keep myself busy so that I don't sit around and wallow in my discomfort, heartburn, restlessness and all around moodiness with accomapnied bad attitude. How have I kept myself busy? I am so glad you asked. I finished the baby's bedroom. Even though there is no hurry because he will be sleeping in a cradle in our bedroom and most likely in our bed for the next few months I felt the need to have his place in our home ready for him to come home to anyway. When I started this room was a spare bedroom, catch-all, out-of-sight out-of-mind, just close the door kind of room. We moved out all of the odd pieces of furniture that piled up in there up to the attic. (Now I need to clean up the attic.) All of the boxes, speakers and other clutter left from when we moved here almost a year ago went up to the attic as well. This room had no closet doors, no shelf and a broken closet rod. The paint color was attrocious. The plaster had cracks. On Thursday I began to remedy all of that. Steven built shelving and put up a nice new metal closet rod. Colby primed and painted the interior of the closet. The paint color is Gentle Dill. It is soothing and very calming shade of green. The time I have spent inthis room was very relaxing and pleasant as I painted. It was also a lot of work. It took two coats of Kilz2 Latex Primer and two coats of the green paint on the walls. The trim required 2 coats of primer and 1 coat of the very lucious and sexy cabinet paint that I love to paint with. The paint that the previous owners used was very poor cheap paint. The walls just soak up paint like crazy. Since I have now done 4 bedrooms and the bathroom upstairs I have used 9 gallons of primer, 8 gallons of wall paint and 4 gallons of cabinet paint on the trim and doors. The bed linens and duvet sets are from Overstock.com. I purchased the duvet sets on clearance back in the summer for $25 a set. The feather beds and down comforters were purchased on sale at the same time from Domestications. Yes, I LOVE to shop online and get those great deals! The rug is a stock model from Lowes. Last winter we had to have something on the floor when this room was used as Gracie's bedroom. It is a floral pattern filled with rich greens, tans, creams, browns and golds. The curtains came from a discount store. We have not dressed the crib yet. I am waiting until we see proof positive that this baby is indeed a boy. Then the bedding will be washed and the crib dressed and waiting with its mobile and other fun things. Until then I am on the cautious side and not taking the price tags off of anything incase we have to return it for girly stuff. I have resigned myself to using the crib and changing table I had in the attic. I just don't feel like searching for a new crib since the one I wanted was recalled. We will just wait a couple years and then purchase furniture pieces as this baby grows up and out of a crib and into the beds. I have told you many times I am not a cutesy Disney/cartoon theme nursery kind of momma. I have chosen a paint that went with things I already had in this room. I tried to create a nice room that can be used as a nice soothing baby's room but will not need to be redecorated in a couple years. Now all we need is the baby. The waiting is making impatient. I am ready for breastfeeding, dirty diapers, sleepless hours, cuddling, pressing my lips and nose against sweet baby skin ... and having my body back to myself. For all of you who have asked about a post when I go into labor - I do plan to take my laptop to the hospital with me. I don't know if I will be able post and let you follow the delivery stages but I will have it with me to make notes. Steven has his email on his phone so someone will be emailed if I can't leave a post. It is the best I can do because I know he will be so wound up he won't remember to write a post. I know I suck these days because I don't leave comments or a post every day. All I can say is I am sorry, but I am a lowsy friend right now. I have been around to read but I just don't seem to have it in me to make the effort to leave comments. I also suck at email. If you have written me I apologize but I haven't even answered email from my family. It's all there sitting and waiting for me to get to it. I will. But I don't know when. Tomorrow morning is my weekly doctor's appointment. I really dislike going to the doctor. BTW, no I am not resting. I have this half gallon of very safe and friendly paint and stain stripper and I am going right now to slather it on my staircase and see if it works to remove that aweful brown enamel porch paint that is on every single tread and three of the four upstairs bedrooms floors. I guess I am a glutton for punishment. Maybe a little ice cream first. Want some? Vanilla, chocolate or Sponge Bob?