Thank you Sheri!

When we told Peter's sister, Sheri, that we were pregnant, she offered to buy us our stroller as a gift - very generous :) She's coming home in April (lives 1700 km away) and wanted to make sure she had it by then since she won't be home after that until right after the baby's born.

So ... for the last month or so we've been emailing ideas back and forth. About a week ago we settled on the Bumbleride 2006 Flyer. She quickly ordered it and had it sent directly to our house and we received it on Thursday. It is so beautiful! The colour didn't turn out well in the pictures, the blue is really more of an aqua. We have the optional foot muff attached. Where the 'bumper' bar is can be swapped out for the included car seat adapter, and the infant seat we're borrowing should be able to attach directly to that. We will find that out on Monday hopefully. Anyway, here are the pictures :) Many thanks again to Sheri!

Crazy week

I'm having one of those weeks where I feel exhausted just thinking about keeping up with everything. Ever have one of those? If so, please excuse the lack of posting in the last while :) If not, I'm jealous ;)

Hmmm ... I really enjoyed my day at home last Wednesday. We did end up canceling our plans for dinner on Valentine's Day and just enjoyed a nice dinner and evening at home. Thursday the storm continued. School was canceled, which meant our church commitments for the evening were canceled. We enjoyed another evening at home. Friday night Peter went skiing with some of the youth from the church and I spent the whole evening stitching - yay!

Saturday we spent working on the house and Saturday night we drove to my sister's house for her birthday party. It was nice to connect with everyone for the evening.

Sunday we had church in the morning and then in the evening we had our youth Bible study. In the afternoon I stitched while Peter slept - he was so exhausted.

Monday night we met with the lady who is probably going to keep Baby M when I go back to work (hopefully only part-time - yay!). Things look pretty good on that front, although I should probably confirm with her.

Tuesday night I had a practice at the church and last night Peter taught a guitar lesson at the house. We spent the rest of the evening cleaning up - the house looks so good! I've been doing well sticking to my flylady routines this week, too, so hopefully I can keep it all tidied up.

There's a quick summary of our week ;) As far as Baby M goes, s/he had a quiet couple of days early in the week but made up for it this morning. I'm so enjoying feeling the little movements frequently. My next doctor's appointment is on the 1st and I have my gestational diabetes test the week after that. Hopefully I pass! Dad was recently diagnosed with diabetes, which apparently increases my risk.

I'm starting to get a little anxious about having things ready for the baby ... I can't believe it's only a little over 15 weeks away. I do have a list and am going to try and check 1 thing off a night. The list only has about 25 things on it, so that should give me lots of time.

I'm starting to outgrow some maternity clothes. I think I'm good with what I do have for at least another 6 weeks or so. After that it's probably going to be slim pickings especially for tops. Oh well, it's only another 2 months so I can make it. Thanks to the generosity of friends lending me theirs I haven't had to buy many maternity clothes at all.

Oh yeah - we found out that some good friends of ours (who happen to live within walking distance) are expecting their first baby in September! It will be so cool to have babies so close in age as they grow up.

A new start!

I had picked up the pattern for L&L's Dance of the Roses last fall, and at the time our somewhat LNS (90 minutes away) said the fabric I wanted would be in in a week .... Well, I finally got a call last week that the fabric was in! Thankfully, Eleni was heading that way last weekend and picked it up for me. So ... I made a deal with myself last night. If I cleaned up the main part of the house and was sitting down by 8 I could start DOTR ... I cheated a bit (left the kitchen, since Peter's chop saw is still set up to finish up the baseboards tonight) but was sitting by 6:30! I decided to be a bit productive and started the paperwork to get our HST rebate on an owner-built house, but by 8:00 I had the floss pulled and was ready to start.

Let me say - when compared to the Teresa Wentzler and Stoney Creek projects I've been mired down in this is a walk in the park! I can't believe how much I accomplished in 3 hours! I am going to really enjoy this as a break from the more intense projects. Now I just have to make sure I stick to a rotation and don't spend all my time on DOTR! To make room for DOTR I removed Amethyst Snowflake for the time being. So, my new rotation is:

1. Carousel
2. DOTR
3. Chestnut (Rocking Horse)
4. Village Skaters

One night on each is how I'm doing it, although if I fall asleep after 15 minutes of stitching I give myself another night on the project :)

On another note - because my maternity leave starts at the end of May, I was entitled to 5 vacation days this year. I usually take my vacation through the summer and save some for Christmas, so this winter / spring I'm faced with 5 "free" days to use as I please. I made the decision last week that tomorrow I'm going to have a vacation day - Happy Valentine's to me ;) I am so excited! I should do some work on the house, but being home all day I should definitely be able to fit in some quality stitching time.

Peter and I have plans to drive to a favourite restaurant about 90 minutes away for supper tomorrow night, but with the winter storm watch in effect we may end up home for the evening ... which I wouldn't be too distraught about - I'm such a homebody. As long as I don't have to cook I'm good with whatever tomorrow night.

Not too much has been happening here this week except for working on the house (see our other blog).

Time's a flyin'

Wow - I can't believe it's only 4 months until Baby M arrives! Some days it feels so far away and other times I wonder how we'll get everything ready in that amount of time.

M's kicks have been getting much stronger lately - Peter even got to feel one late last week - finally!

We got the bill from the moving truck - not as bad as it could have been. They charged about $200 for the tow and the repair. I'm ok with that, and it's nice to not have that hanging over our heads.

We had our first appointment with the obstetrician last week. Actually, we had a resident do most of the visit and then just met the ob at the very end. The resident was very nice and let us listen to the heartbeat for a long time. He said I was measuring right on schedule - so far every date (from 2 ultrasounds and all measurements) have agreed within a day or two, so hopefully I'll deliver close to my estimated due date.

This weekend was very busy, but productive. Friday night Peter and I worked on the house. Saturday morning Peter continued working on the house while I ran some errands. I hadn't gotten a big grocery order since before Christmas, so Friday night I made up a menu for the week and got everything Saturday morning. It's so nice to not be scrambling at suppertime every day! I got home around noon on Saturday, had lunch, then we continued work on the house.

Saturday night Peter had some friends in for a poker game, so a few of the wives got together to scrapbook. I can't remember the last time I had my scrapbooking stuff out! I've been working on our "construction" book and I am very slow! Oh well, it will get done someday.

Sunday was church in the morning, then out for lunch. We came home and Peter cleaned up the house while I baked. We hosted the youth Bible study Sunday night, then Peter headed over to a Superbowl party while I sat home and finally got some stitching in. I have a feeling my stitching hours for February will not be as plentiful as the last few months. Oh well, we're making good progress on the house instead!

Last night was our monthly youth leader's meeting, which we also hosted. We had supper then met until around 9:30. After that there was just time to make up some new morning and evening routines before watching 24! I'm really pleased with the new routines - I think they will keep the house in decent shape if I can make them automatic. My mornings are so much more pleasant when I've done a bit of preparation the night before *and* when I get up on time!