1. Had an exterminator come over to give an estimate on our house. Of course none of the ants or black widow spiders came out to play while he was there.
2. Tended to a very black and blue finger that Nathaniel shut in the sliding glass door. Let me just clarify that it was his own finger. Looks pretty bad, and I think it feels worse. The consensus is that he won’t have that finger nail for long.
3. Said good-bye to Aaron who was staying with us for a few days. He’s now with a college friend who lives a few miles away. Our time with him felt too short. But we did pick up some good vocabulary like, “Nube,” and “Goat.” Those are mostly used when describing someone who is acting, “nubish.”
4. Took a nap in the one spot in the living room that receives a direct blast of AC
5. Woke up and ate a whole chocolate bar….and a half of another one.
6. Finished reading my book that is due back to the library today. It was a cute chick-lit large print beach read appropriately titled, Bedrest. Like all good chick-lit, it ended happily and well and all the problems in this girl’s world were perfectly solved. And I ate up every word of it.
7. Laundry.
8. Went to another church’s VBS, which was more of a family one where they serve the whole family dinner, then the kids do their thing and the adults listen to stories. It was fun. I think we may have been the only new people there. And Eddy, well, the report from her teacher was that “she did okay.” I guess “okay” is better than, “please don’t bring her back here again.”
9. Bought an infant car seat. So far we’ve had at least one person walk by our car and ask if the baby is here yet. Well, two if you count Eddy. It’s not even buckled in yet, it’s just sitting in there waiting for us to do something about it. It does make this whole thing seem more real.
10. Realized as I went to bed that we did have a busy day, even though it didn’t feel like it, and even though I was dead tired, I couldn’t fall asleep. So I laid in bed reading What to Expect When You’re Expecting until I got to the part about Labor and Delivery at which point I closed the book and dreamed sweet dreams. I’m going for a more “less is more” approach to this whole delivery thing. As in, the less I know about it, the more I will not freak out about it when the time comes. Okay, just kidding, sort of.
Uh…make sure you know enough to know what on earth to expect and do! And always expect the unexpected to. Including going through labor and then having a c-section.
God knows exactly how things are going to go — your job is to be as prepared as possible and trust Him at the same time!
Hope the exterminator wasn’t too expensive. Wow, you have the car seat in the car!! That makes is seem really close. Do you guys have a minivan? I’ve been wondering how you drove all the foster kids around when you had 3 at a time. You’re soo funny not wanting to know about labor. That was the first chapter I read and the one I reread all the time. I have to know what to expect, but still never feel really prepared. It is going to be great no matter what. You have to call us as soon as you go into labor
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Why read all the horrible details? Everyone in that room is going to be giving you advise anyway, and let me tell you that book cannot explain what to do (especially with pushing). Well, I guess I am not a book learner anyway. The nurses will explain and try to help, but once you start doing it – then you know! I did not read about labor and delivery; Max and I did watch short movie and maybe I am crazy – but the woman in the movie must have been pretending! If I had read what to expect and then gone into my labor (which was far from “what to expect” with all the problems) I would have freaked. As it was, I thought it was all normal until later when I heard about all the complications! So I salute you – don’t read the details, yours will be different anyway.
The most comforting thing to me during labor was that she had to come out – one way or the other, its not like they are going to leave the baby in there if you haven’t read “What to expect during delivery”!!