Just Passing Time

Well, I've been on Maternity leave for two weeks now, and look how well I've done keeping up with blogging! Ha.

My first week went by pretty quickly. I managed to get a lot of cleaning done (mostly motivated by the fact that there was going to be a lot of people in my house) and I kept pretty busy doing a bit of final shopping and nursery preparation. This week, however, has been much less productive and has felt longer, even though with the Holiday, it's really been a short week. I've been sleeping a lot and at weird times and intervals. I've noticed that I am consistently waking up after 2 or 3 hours of sleep, and waking up suddenly and alertly. My body has slowwwwed and I am experiencing a huge decrease in energy. All of this put together is a little frustrating, but at the same time I am standing back observing these changes with awe as I know that my body is in the final stretch of preparations to have this baby. I am increasingly excited to meet our little man and I cannot wait until I feel those first real contractions and the whole process actually begins.

Until then, which could be any moment from now to June 14th (god I hope I don't go that long), I am trying to do at least one productive thing each day. Yesterday I did a load of laundry, showered, and swiffered the floors (loooving my new swiffer wet jet!), and today I fooled around with the camera and took some pics of my belly. While it was pretty time and energy consuming, I did come out with a few pics that I like. I only wish I could have been on the other side of the camera actually looking at myself through the view finder. It is so hard to take pictures when you can't see where you are in the frame. I have so many ideas of what would make a great picture in my head, but when you can't control things like zoom, angle and are limited by a timer and how many books you can prop up to get the right height, those ideas are pretty much just a vague notion of what you actually end up with. Nonetheless, they're better than nothing.

Things left to "due" before Baby J's arrival:

*Buy a baby monitor

*Pack my Hospital bag

*Write up my birth plan

*Pick up a couple of Newborn onesies

*Buy nursing bras (yay fun)

*Cook and freeze some yummy meals (will wait till mom gets here for that)

*Be patient!