Total weight gain/loss: 6 pounds
Maternity clothes? I bought some new clothes. Technically they aren't "maternity," but they are one size bigger than I normally wear.
Stretch marks? Not yet
Sleep: I had the luxury of sleeping in this week and it was wonderful!
Miss anything: Clear skin. . . this week my hormones took over. I've never had this many blemishes in my life.
Movement: Not yet :(
Food cravings: No "cravings," but this week I ate way too many breakfast carbs throughout the day (think: cereal, english muffins, and toast). Luckily I have been enjoying salads again, so it shouldn't be too hard to get back on track.
Anything making you queasy or sick: Nothing new . . . fried food, overpowering scents and barbecue sauce.
Anything making you queasy or sick: Nothing new . . . fried food, overpowering scents and barbecue sauce.
Have you started to show yet: Yep
Gender Prediction: Boy
Labor Signs: None
Belly Button in or out? In
Wedding rings on or off? On
Happy or Moody most of the time: Happy :)
Best Moment of the Week: Having a whole week to clean and organize!
Looking forward to: Still waiting for that first little flutter. . . any day now.
Mid-Winter Break To Do List:
- Organize pictures . . . CHECK
- PLAN nursery . . . NOT REALLY
- Rearrange the entire house to create a nursery . . . CHECK
- Go into school one day . . . CHECK
- Organize classroom library. . . NOPE
I told myself . . . and Jon that I was NOT going to tear our house apart this week. I wasn't going to start putting the nursery together. I was only going to start PLANNING the nursery. Well, that lasted about 1 day, and I think it was only because we were in Bellingham last Friday. Saturday morning was a whole different story. . .
On Saturday I woke up determined to figure out how our two spare rooms could still occupy an office, a guest room and a nursery. We have 2 spare rooms in our home. One is right across from the guest bath and it is a little bit larger. It has a window seat and the closet is significantly bigger. This is the room we were planning for the nursery, so this summer (when I could still paint) I painted this room the color we wanted for a nursery. The second bedroom is smaller. It's at the end of the hallway (right next to our bedroom), and it has not been painted. I thought our decision had been made months ago but, this past December my decision started to change.
In December we experienced vandalism in our neighborhood. Early one Wednesday morning two individuals decided to go on a tire slashing rampage. Three neighborhood blocks (including our street) were hit. The individuals slashed the tires of every car parked outside that night. Unfortunately, I was in the process of painting my lovely chalkboard (see above) so we parked BOTH cars outside that night. :( Aside from the fact that we had to replace 8 tires on our cars, I began to question the safety and security of our neighborhood. Specifically, I began to question if I wanted the nursery to have a window which faces the driveway. The smaller bedroom faces the neighbor's house, it is sandwiched between two gates and overall it seemed safer. I then came up with a list of all of the cons for the larger room; babies don't need that much space, we would benefit from having the larger closet for storage, the smaller room is darker (since it isn't near the exterior garage lights), it's safer, etc. It had been decided, we would switch the rooms and I would spend mid-winter break deciding a new color palette and prep the room so Jon could paint it.
But, when it came down to planning. We both decided the pros of the larger baby room outweighed the cons. Which brings me back to last Saturday, when I spent the day tearing the house apart to create a nursery. Although it took a week, I got all of our closets, paperwork, pictures, and pretty much anything else you can shove in two closets organized. Everything has a home and if it didn't, it went in the attic or on Craigslist. I completed a much needed early spring cleaning. It was a lot of work, but I feel like our home is finally coming together. Every room is slowly getting completed and we are beginning to make room for baby.*
Oh, and that plan to organize at school. After spending three days tearing my house apart I decided my classroom library was going to take more than an afternoon, and I wanted to spend my break at home. I did go into school for about an hour early in the week. I organized paperwork that I had been too lazy to put away had acquired over the last couple weeks.
For those of you wondering where the nursery pictures are . . . they will be posted in the next couple weeks. It's in the very early design stage and I'm not ready to share it yet. :)
*Meesha Note: She's not too pleased with all of the moving that took place this week. Either she was getting worried we were moving again (this is the longest she's lived somewhere) or she's starting to sense something is up. When walking down the hallway she often stops at the nursery and just stares in the room. She is also getting frustrated because there are a couple stuffed animals in the nursery and she can't understand why I won't let her play with them. She will learn to share . . . hopefully.
