Another busy week ahead

This week is another busy one. Seems to be the trend as of late. Tomorrow, I have another meeting out of town to attend in the evening, which means I’ll be working a 16 or 17 hour day tomorrow. Yikes! Luckily, this is my last out of town evening meeting, so I will be so glad when it is over with! This is one where we are expecting 100+ people to show up and 95% of them are opposed to the project, so there will be some angry and unreasonable people to deal with – fun. Since I’m working such a long day tomorrow, I am taking Wednesday morning off. I have an appointment with the midwife at 11:30am on Wednesday, so I’ll just go to work after that for the afternoon. So, Wednesday will be a nice, short workday to counteract the really long day tomorrow.

And Friday is not only my birthday, but also my first baby shower, so that will be fun. I don’t know any of the details yet, just that it is put on by my coworkers, it will be after work, and my parents and Carlos are supposed to come as well. That’s all I know. I’m sure it will be a great time!

This past weekend was a good one. My visit with my friend on Saturday was nice. I hadn’t seen her in maybe 2 years, so we got to catch up on things. She has a 3.5 month old daughter, so I got to meet her as well. It was nice to hear about how pleased she was with the midwives through the birth and the weeks afterwards.

We also picked up our crib on Saturday morning and then put it together Saturday after I got home from visiting with my friend. I absolutely LOVE the crib we picked! Now we are just waiting on the mattress, which should be in on the weekend. We could have bought it in-store, but it was 10% off through the Sears website, so we ordered it through there. We decided to get an organic mattress since that was something that was really important to me – to get a mattress with no PVC, especially since the baby will be spending so much time in the crib.

My birthday celebration with my family yesterday was great. Carlos’ parents came for a bit as well. It was funny, they called us just before noon on Sunday saying they wanted to come early to come to our place (they would bring lunch) and to see the nursery. So, as soon as we found that out, we were running around like chickens with our heads cut off trying to get the house a little tidied. My mother-in-law is a cleaning lady and she is one of those European women who always has their house spotless. So, I wanted our house to be at least somewhat presentable. It’s amazing what a difference we made in just a half hour!

As of today, I’m 30 weeks along! Only 10 weeks to go! Now that we have all the nursery furniture set up, I am finding that I am having a really strong urge to get all the supplies we need. I am trying to hold off though since I’m sure we’ll be getting some stuff at the shower on Friday and more at Christmas.