Sorry the following thoughts don't really flow from one to the other ... this is mostly a brain dump of what came into my head ;)
We had a wonderful Christmas vacation over the past couple of weeks! As you can tell from the lack of posts, we were busy, but it was a good kind of busy - lots of visiting with family and friends and working on the house. I did manage to get some stitching in but I'll talk about that in another post (hopefully with some pictures if I get up the motivation to take some tonight)!
We headed for our parents' houses for a few days over Christmas. Peter got me an iPod, which I had secretly been wanting but didn't ask for because they're so expensive! Mom & Dad got me a few maternity outfits - I definitely need them now! It was weird thinking this will be our last Christmas just the two of us. After traveling this year I'm definitely thinking I'd like to be home for Christmas morning with the little one next year. People gave us some really cute baby things, too. Mom & Dad gave us some size 1 diapers - they're so tiny! One of Mom's best friends gave us a little knit sweater and bootie set - also tiny! I guess I'd better get used to that ;) Now to get the nursery finished up so we have somewhere to put all this stuff.
We had both our families over for Peter's birthday on the 28th. It was fun to have a bunch of people in. The scene repeated itself a few days later as we hosted a New Year's party. Chinese food and board games ... fun! We designed the house to be conducive to having friends and family over comfortably and it's so nice to finally be at the point where we can use the space!
With the upcoming addition to our family and the cut in pay that will be involved in a maternity leave (yay for Canada - I am so looking forward to a year at home with baby even if it is at half pay) Peter and I have been working hard on sticking to a budget. So far, so good. Hopefully with Christmas out of the way we'll be able to pay down some debt through the spring and save a good chunk towards a new(er) car. We can't count on our 10-year-old Tercel to last forever (although that would be nice)!
Our big ultrasound is only 6 days away - eek! I also have a regular doctor's appointment next week - looks like I'll be working through my lunches next week to make up time! I'm super excited for the ultrasound. We'll be getting a picture and Peter's sister has insisted we scan it and email it to her, so I'll try and post it here as well.
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