One last random post...

This is likely my last kinda random post before Thursday. We have a few things to do around the house before induction, and before Grandma (My Mom) shows up on Friday... these are things that normally would take me about a few hours to do, but since I move at the pace of a large overweight tortoise at the moment, I fully expect it to take 2 days.

Plus Tim got a new video game yesterday... soooo... not really sure if we'll be able to keep him off long enough to quickly get this stuff done LOL. Even when focused Tim moves rather slowly, s'okay because he's been phenominal about keeping the house clean and taking care of me this whole time, the boy deserves a trophy (or in this case a new video game lol)

So what's on the agenda?

I'm headed out to vote this morning (yay!) I was a little worried I might be in the hospital and unable to vote. Tim thinks I should take a Big Gulp with me and drop it on the floor while in line so people think my water broke and let us cut line... yeah this is the way my husband's mind works! It would be funny, but knowing my luck (living in Mayberry, MI as we do) I'd make the newspaper for that and wind up having to explain why Kat wasn't born until Friday. I feel pretty strongly about elections in general, but this one in particular- so I'm very glad I get to go cast my little vote today since MI didn't have early voting! (who knew?)

After that, we come home and start cleaning up around the house- thrilling no? It's not terrible, but I really want to try to have it as nice as possible, because it'll be nice to come home from the hospital to a nice organized clean house. Also add in the fact that my Mom will be coming on Friday and plans to do a full commando cleaning of the house... and I'd rather not make her cry because her daughter is so messy LOL---- She even went out and bought all green and organic cleaning stuff that she's bringing with her to clean with... she's too cute!

How is everyone doing?

The animals have been freaky for days... Luna keeps crying and wanting to clean me constantly... she alternates between that and being REALLY mean to Freya (which is odd for her) everytime the dog lays down to sleep, Luna runs up and bites her.

Freya on the other hand won't let me out of her sight for a minute... she just trots after me all day long and lays on my feet the minute I stop. She keeps shaking and whining at me (which is what she does when she's nervous) They know something is going on, they just aren't really sure what that is... they'll find out soon enough!

Tim is in a high state of manic behavior... I jokingly timed him yesterday and he's literally asking me if I'm okay every 8 minutes... I wish I were kidding. He really is! If I'm quiet for more than a few seconds... are you okay? I promised him that I wouldn't be too meek to let him know the minute I wasn't actually okay, and that he didn't need to worry so much! Everytime I get up at night to use the bathroom, he wakes up enough to ask me if I'm okay and try to tuck me back into bed. He says he doesn't even remember any of it, but he's been doing it for weeks! No wonder he's so tired! The only reason no one has asked me yet this morning if I'm okay... is because he's still in bed. Shhhh... nobody wake the worried man! Some guy ran us into opposing traffic yesterday by almost sideswiping our car (on my side) and Tim was literally following the dude to his house to scream at him before I talked him down. He's in overprotective-freaked out-scared silly-gonna be a daddy- mode... This birth is going to be as much a relief for him as it is me!

Me? Oh yeah, forgot about me... I'm just kinda large and uncomfortable. But that's how this is supposed to work! Kat doesn't have much room to move, so she doesn't do much of it, but what she does do is a tad painful. It's also nice to feel- it's a pregnant thing, if you haven't been there you maybe wouldn't get that. I'm pretty resigned that she won't be coming before Thursday night, so I refuse to get excited about all the contractions I have. I've been having contractions for months (damned Irritable Uterus Syndrome LOL) so I just breeze past them and don't even time 'em. I'm basically just sleeping a lot, waking up to eat, then sleeping some more. My body can't seem to get enough rest, and I'm indulging it knowing that those days when I can indulge myself are quickly coming to an end. I'm counting the days, getting my ducks in a row, and trying not to think TOO hard about the actual labor and focusing instead on the end result...

Also as a note-

If you aren't on Myspace, and didn't get the update e mail from me... if you need/want information on the hospital etc because you want to call or visit- let me know. Not gonna post it here, that's not really safe. We are letting everyone know that we likely won't have a visitable room until Friday night at the earliest, and the hospital is keeping us for 2 full days at least after the birth so those getting an e mail update or depending on the blog for updates will likely be waiting until early next week when we get home. If you do plan to visit either at home or in the hospital, we are asking that you please call first- just to be sure we are alert and awake... etc.

If you are on the "Please call me" list... if you were wanting the call when we're on the way to the hospital, if you don't hear from us by Thursday, just assume we're in the hospital as of Thursday night.. if you were wanting to hear about Kat's actual arrival, Tim will likely be making those calls, and I can't promise much. LOL... we'll try to keep everyone posted as much as possible, just be patient with us, and if we miss you- it's totally not intentional!! I promise that everyone will know as soon as I'm personally functional again, I just can't promise what my silly husband is going to do (or not do) when he's totally engrossed in his new little girl. I promise that we'll try.

Next time you hear from me, I'll likely be headed to the hospital... so see ya'll then...