I am staying at my friend Jason's house while the polyurethane is put down...
I have such great friends, I am truly amazed sometimes and wonder where the hell they came from...Steve has probably put in 60 hours of work in on my floors since arriving here on Friday.
The living room and back bedroom (which will be Andi's) have been completely sanded and have two coats of polyurethane down. We opted to not put the third coat down right now since Andi will arrive tomorrow (!) and it is advised to have as much as 24 hours before setting any heavy furniture down so we opted to just do the two for now and get a third coat down in the future. My bedroom and the hallway are the next on the list. I have to get the carpet, tacks and toe mold up before Steve comes back up here from Eugene -- I would also like to have painted the remaining living room wall and my bedroom too.
So, Andi and her mother are headed out here on their way from IL. They started their journey Sunday waking up at a lovely 5 am so should be here Tuesday late afternoon / early evening... Her bedroom will be finished so it will be less hassle for her when Steve comes to refinish my bedroom floor (which I would like to have done in the next few weeks).
The next thing is to see how the dogs get along: Andi has an 13 year old beagle mix named Ella who is getting slightly demented. But she sleeps about 20 hours a day now so I doubt there will be much conflict with Dinah (who seems to get along fairly well with others).
This is me and Jason a year or so ago. This was his first time rollerskating - it was Raphael's 7th birthday.
So....Jason's dog Zoba is missing; we had a bad thunderstorm a couple nights ago (which we never hardly ever have here) and he was leaving for work (he works the overnight shift) so Zoba must have slipped out when he was leaving for work right before the big thunderstorm - so when Jason got home in the morning, he couldn't find Zoba. That's one of the worrisome items in my head right now...
I sure hope we find that "little devil" as my mom funnily called him in her email to me when I told her about Zoba being out on the lam and me being worried about him. He is certainly a little devil boy but so sweet and I hope we recover him soon. I know Dinah misses him and always looks for him in familiar places and when Jason is around so it's weird for her. Which reminds me, Dinah turned four May 25th! She is just growing up! She has taken it ok to staying over at Jason's right now but never fails to look around for Zoba when we come in. It is so nice that we are welcomed at Jason's while my house is stinky with drying polyurethane. It is so cool to have such good friends. I am so thankful, really. It has helped me tremendously over the past months.
Pregnancy brings some odd hormones and moodiness- I'm not sure it all makes sense but most of the time I feel pretty stable ;)
This week my child is compared to an English hothouse cucumber (14 inches long and over a pound and two thirds!)
A lot of people are asking me when I plan to stop working and for right now, I plan to work up until at least August 31st (that's the end of my work week unless he decides to arrive before then). Either way, I think that this child will be born when he wants to be born. I think unless I feel totally crappy, it's a good idea to save up as much paid time off and make as much money as possible. It might also keep my mind off of not being in labor...(?!)
I would like to avoid being induced... if at all possible but....from what I hear, you just have to kind of go with it.
I want to thank everyone who has shared their birth, nursing, postpartum stories with me. I welcome the advice, comments, what worked and what didn't in all aspects of having children. I think I am still adjusting to the idea really. What I do realize is that I have have no idea of really how much my whole life is going to change. That much I do know.
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