Almost done...

We will be able to paint Will's room by this weekend! I'm so stinkin' excited! It seems like it has taken forever but the guy said he should be finishing it up by tomorrow. So I figure by Friday we can start painting. Then it's carpet, closet organizer and then all his stuff gets moved in:) It will be so much more real! I've been wanting to put his stuff away for the last week. I feel a strong urge to "nest" over this past week. I'm hoping that's due to the room being almost ready and not Will being ready to make his entrance! I will be posting pictures of newly painted room hopefully by next week!

So I'm gonna start having a panic attack soon. We still have not laid carpet or painted Will's room! I am T minus 6 weeks away from his arrival and there is so much to do. The room still needs to be tapped and muded one more time but my uncle has gone MIA so now we have to get someone else to do it. Since my Dad is shelling out the money up front for this work to get done I'm trying not to get on his case but I can't be painted the room when I'm huge pregnant!
I went to the doctor today. I start weekly appts in two weeks! I'm already near the weight limit and I have 6 weeks to go so I decided to ask my doctor if that was bad. She said she wasn't concerned. She doesn't think I'll be gaining much more weight. We'll see about that! My new favorite thing is ice cream..... which I prefer to call "ASS" cream since it's going straight to my ass!
I'm a little worried about having post-pardum. I find myself already feeling overwhellmingly sad at times for no real reason. I know it's hormonal so I can usually cope with it. Once Will is here though I won't have the time to talk myslef down. The good news is Jeff can take up to 8 weeks of paternity leave. He can use vacation time and sick time. He already has over 60 hours of sick time accrued so we're thinking he'll take three weeks off. I'm so happy. It will be so nice to have him around for the first few weeks. We can double team everything and maybe we'll even get some sleep!

Tag you're it... or wait there is no else to be it....

The task is to take the sixth folder on your comp and pull up the sixth pic and describe it. Then, tag four others. Jessie tagged me and I would tag four others but Jessie and Martie are my only "blogging buddies":)

This pic was taken at Bennigan's on my 24th birthday (June 11, 2007). It's Michelle, me, Jeff, Casey and Jonesy. I forgot how long my hair was then! It has taken me almost 2 years to get it back to that length! Yikes! I also just noticed that my face looks very round:/ Although, I did enjoy Jeff's hair long I'm kinda glad he went back to it being short:)

Every year I try to get better and better about the Christmas present thing. I thought for sure this year I had it under control. I started shopping in November. Now we are only 16 days away from Christmas and I still have stuff to get and the money supply is quite low. Plus one of the family Christmas gatherings is on the 20th so I have even less time to buy for that!
Once again this year I am going to have to tell Jeff that we can't get Christmas presents for each other. I hate doing that but I don't think we can afford it. I had some really good ideas for him this year:(
We won't get a break after Christmas because it's both of his brother's birthdays plus his Dad's and his aunt's. There is four more presents to buy. Not to mention that after Christmas it will be eight weeks until Will arrives. We still have stuff to buy for his room and I don't even have the mattress for the crib purchased yet!
I just want to stay in bed today and try to forget all these things. Unfortunately, I have to work and I just feel like being in sweatpants... and I have this uncontrollable urge to just cry!

Sleep... or lack of....

So I have been up since 3:45am. Well, at least that's when I looked at the clock. I have probably been up since before then. I just can't get the right amount of sleep while I am pregnant. My body is tired but my mind is racing. I can only sleep in two positions... on my right side or on my left. That's not usually the way I sleep. I switch from my stomach to my back to my side and so on. Now that I am pregnant this is no longer an option. If I am not waking up every hour to pee then I am waking up to switch sides because my hips are aching! I feel like an old woman. I still have another 15 uncomfortable weeks to go. I shouldn't really complain, according to some of friends my belly is actually small for being 25 weeks pregnant. So I am grateful. It's just hard to get the sleep I need lately. I guess this is just preparing me for when Will arrives and I won't be getting any sleep at all.

The work has begun...

The work has begun on Will's room and it seems to be moving quickly. I am so excited we should be able to paint in the next week! These are the "before" pics... well a little bit of work has been done in these pics but it's pretty rough. You'll notice the black wall. You can thank the previous owner's for wallpapering over this wall instead of priming and painting it! Keep in mind this was the only wall in the room that was wallpapered! Whoever "finished" this room off did a really poor job. Sad... because we have to take care of what they didn't!

Update on Will...

I pretty much feel Will moving all the time now. It's a pretty weird experience. Not in a bad way, it's just a little strange that there is a little person inside me moving around. My belly is starting to grow. I notice it more everyday. I would say that is the hardest part. Watching it get bigger and bigger is a little uncomfortable. I'm only 24 weeks so I still have another 16 weeks to get even bigger!

We have fully cleaned out Will's new room. It's all ready to start work on. We had someone out to look at replacing the windows and we are having someone else out to look at the ceiling/sheetrock that needs to be done. Once those tasks are complete it will be easy. We'll just have to paint, lay the carpet, put in the closet organizer and then the fun part, DECORATE! I mostly just want to get to the fun part. I also can't wait to get the crib set-up. I've been dying to do that. I think we have decided on paint colors. So I feel like we're making progress. As soon as his room is done I will feel a lot better!