I can’t believe that I am almost 35 weeks pregnant. I only have about a month left and if this little girl is as impatient as her brother then I only have three weeks. Looking back over the past eight months it’s hard to imagine how much our little family has changed in such a short amount of time. We’ve been able to get so much accomplished in preparing for this little girl’s arrival. What was once a room full of boxes and military gear is now a freshly painted nursery with all the baby furniture that has been in storage. The walls are decorated with shelves, pictures and vinyl cherry blossoms. I’m almost finished painting the letters of her name to hang over the crib. I’m buying a new canvass today to complete a painting. All her bedding has been made. The curtains are up and the valance has been sewn to match her quilt. I have a stack of receiving blankets to surge, burp clothes to prepare and cloth diapers to sew. I need to shampoo her carpet. I have a few baby things left to launder and I’m still waiting on a couple diapers to come in the mail so I can wash and prep those.
For awhile my To Do list was getting shorter but now as the time is running out I’m finding more and more things that I have to do. I don’t see how I’m going to get this all done in 3-4 weeks. Not with my parents coming up and Thanksgiving and my son’s 4th birthday to plan and throw. I still need to dig out the pack and play and the baby swing. The carseat needs to be washed and installed. Some of my son’s old toys need to be moved to the attic for storage until this baby is old enough to use them. A box needs to come out of the attic and the linens washed for the new baby. I’d do the things in the attic myself if I wasn’t terrified of falling down the ladder with the boxes. I’m clumsy enough while not pregnant. Pregnancy turns me into a total train wreck.
And on top of all the personal things that need to be done I have FRG obligations that I need to meet as well. I need to get the holiday party planned. I need to find someone to cover the leadership position despite not having any active volunteers. Somehow I need to still be available to people despite having given birth. And now a fundraiser is thrown in my lap that needs to be pulled of THIS WEEK despite planning my sons party for this Saturday, having three doctor appointments and Friday being a day off plus a coffee social to attend Wednesday. At some point, despite swollen ankles and a sore back, I need to shop and bake for this. I was told about this last night. Today I have two doctor appointments so I won’t be doing much baking. Which leaves me with Wed or Thursday to throw this fundraiser.
And I’d almost forgot about it until I wrote this blog. My stress level just went way up.