Our impending arrival

Just a quick update on Baby B! It's been forever since I've posted- I keep forgetting to take pictures of all the things I've been working on to keep myself busy while we wait for our sweetie. These things include completely reorganizing the kitchen cabinets (Jerod wanted to kill me- he still doesn't know where everything's at), washing all the bedding in the house, organizing and reorganizing the baby's clothes and storage baskets, installing shelving in the bathroom closet, hanging shelves and wine racks in the dining of the kitchen, sewing some reusable shopping totes, and my latest project has been using an old shelf from the bathroom closet to create a rack of hooks to hang baby's hooded towels and jackets (later, maybe it will hold dress up clothes!).

Anyway, between my psychotic episodes of nesting I have had a couple of appointments and am pleased to report that we are in the early stages of labor- I think. I'm about 75% effaced and went from 1 cm to 3 cm dilated between last Thursday and this past Monday, the doctor seemed pretty impressed that I had progressed 2cm in 4 days and haven't had any noticeably strong contractions. Hopefully, we continue this trend and meet our baby soon!

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Think Happy Thoughts

Have you ever had a time when someone you care about is in line for a promotion, or a position, that you know they would do SO well at (and not just because of your biased opinion of them) but you just had this feeling, and lots of rumors to back it up, that even though they're the right person for the job- they're going to get screwed, and there's nothing you can do about it?

Without going into much detail, because we really don't know what will happen, so far everything's just hearsay, that seems to be what's happening in our lives. So I'm just asking for a little hope and faith from everyone else, because my husband is feeling pretty pessimistic and frustrated about this situation. It breaks my heart to see him upset about this, I have never seen him want anything so badly, but I think he just seems like he doesn't know how to help the situation turn out the way we would like it to. So, if you have some to spare, send some positive thoughts his way- who knows when we'll be at the end of this waiting game- but I know he would really appreciate some friendly encouragement, even if just through the blog :)

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