Archive for February 11th, 2010

We have our first “birthing class” tonight and next Thursday. I am not yet sure how I feel about two, four-hour nights of this but I hope that if I don’t learn much that at least Bob does! He has gotten woefully behind on his reading and I really fear that he will be somewhat clueless in the delivery room which will make me more nervous than I know I will already be. I’ll try to keep an open mind and get something from it, definitely and I hope it’s not too boring!

Work has been a little less stressful this week, partly due to my avoiding some things and allowing myself to take a deep breath and relax a little. I definitely needed it because I was really starting to feel burnt out!

I have been sleeping a LOT the last week or so, feeling like I need 11 or 12 hours! It’s different from the first trimester complete “hit a wall” kind of exhaustion and more a general feeling of always tired. Baby is REALLY moving around again too! The last 3 or 4 days she has been really rocking and rolling in there and for long periods of time. It is pretty cool and Bob can actually feel her, she doesn’t stop as soon as he puts his hand on my belly. I really do feel pretty great still, although it is virtually impossible to bend completely over now. We have our next OB Appointment on Monday; I’m definitely going to ask how she is measuring since he hasn’t really given me much feedback before on where she is tracking. I do have a feeling that she is probably right in line with her due date, unfortunately…I am really hoping that she shows up a little early instead of LATE!

There seems to be still so much to do to get ready…although I think the list is definitely getting shorter. I have not yet been paid and that has put a little bit of a damper on getting a few of those last things we really need purchased. We probably shouldn’t have gotten the car seat and stroller, breast feeding pillow, diapers and monitors this last week but I really expected a check to show up! After calling today to see that they had received my W-9 that Bob sent on Tuesday I found out that invoice 1 wasn’t in the system! I had to contact Judi to find out the damn woman sent it beginning of month but it didn’t get processed because BobKat wasn’t set up in the system…she is going to (so graciously!) resubmit it for me so that it goes through next week. The good news is that the 2^nd one WAS processed and paid today, so we should get that in the mail I’m hoping by Tuesday!  Anyway…I’m not going to spend it before we have it, but I feel pretty confident that it IS in the mail at least.

We dropped our taxes off to the new accountant, JC, who was referred to us by Bob’s uncle Barry last Thursday. I’m hoping that they can power through those pretty quick as well and we can get that chunk of money in our hands soon as well. I have no idea what to expect this year since it is so completely off from what we have had previously…I’m really praying that we can actually take a lot of the losses we’ve been carrying over…but I don’t know if that will happen since Bob still made “a lot” of money last year. God I hate taxes…just ridiculous!

Going to try to wrap up my work stuff so that we can leave in about 45 minutes to try to avoid traffic (it’s 4:00) but I have to get Bob into the shower first!