dear week 13...

I'm very, very happy with you.  I have been blessed with surges of energy throughout my day for the past few days and I am thrilled at this renewal!  Nausea has subsided and I'm just waiting for my full appetite to return.  Please, please, please can this trend continue?

With this newfound energy, I've taken on our big project of starting to make room for our Little Lundy. I've just about filled up our large recycle bin with tons of old magazines, papers, boxes.  I've got a growing pile of Goodwill items and then all sorts of other things that need to be sorted and decided on.  Oh, and lots of shredding.  Why, oh, why do we tote these papers, trinkets, all sorts of odds and ends around with us from home to home?  I think this is my most thorough purge yet.  It's just time for things to go.  Our space is valuable around here and I'm not giving too many things a second chance at collecting more dust.  I do have to admit, I'm on a maniacal mission to find some of our larger printed wedding pictures that I've never framed...somehow they are just not showing up.  I'm a wee bit afraid that we've lost them (sigh...)

It's also surprising with the little bit left over of things we actually need. I'm trying to keep these odds and ends organized into bins.  No more old moving boxes collecting our things that we never see again.

On the baby front, I'm definitely seeing a little bump action happening and the pants are starting to snug up.  Looks like a summer full of dresses for me!

planning ahead

I took our other child, Mochi the dog, into the vet today for a check-up and to get some vaccinations.  While I was in I asked our Vet about how best to prepare for bringing a baby home with our dog.  A special thing to note is that we L-O-V-E our crazy little 9 lb yorkie and well, he gets a whole lot of our attention.  When he's met babies, he quite curious and and wants to lick their toes.  2-3 year old kids asking to pet him make him a bit nervous and uncomfortable.  I'm just hoping there won't be any sort of huge issue that pops up.

Anywho, the Vet recommended we might need to bring in Mochi for a teeth cleaning before the baby comes and that I might get the year-long heart worm than the normal 6 month because that would run out right about the time that baby comes.  For the first time I felt like oh, we have 6 months until the little one arrives, so there may be some important things that we'll need to take care of.

Proactive.  Seriously, the first time this idea dawned on me.  I suppose through the haze of nauseousness, feeling weird, most likely acting weird for the past two months, I haven't truly thought ahead.  There are items for the baby that we'll of course need and then there's life after baby that I haven't even thought about.  I think this may be because as much as I imagine what motherhood will be like, I know I don't have the darndest clue - so me, kalin, baby and mochi will all get to learn together.

is it odd that the first pic up on this blog is of our dog?  who cares, I just love him!