Have you ever had one of those days when you think I couldn’t have planned it more perfectly?  That’s how I’ve felt all day today!  For the past 5 weeks we have been running around like crazy people, moving from one household project to another.  And it seemed like each project spawned another project and before I knew it, I felt practically paralyzed by the enormity of it all!  Not to mention that I have this incredible sensitivity to time frame – I feel like I want e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g done before the baby arrives because I know that it’s going to be temporary insanity at that point!

I am so pleased to report that this week, I finally began feeling as though things are really coming together.  If you’ll indulge me a little, here’s what we’ve accomplished this week:

• played with pictures
• blogged
• dinner with friends 3 nights this week
• a perfect play date on Tuesday (3 moms, 5 kids and 2.5 of the 6 hours were spent with all children napping!)
• doctor’s appointment (36 weeks now – great heart rate, I’ve dropped a bit and am apparently at a 3 already…sorry if that’s TMI, but it was surprising to hear since I was only a 3 when I arrived at the hospital after my water broke with Calder)
• grocery shopped
• weeded the garden
• putt in fresh mulch
• cleaned 4 of the 7 rooms downstairs
• caulked around tub and toilet
• washed, dried and ironed the curtains in the kitchen and bath
• hung our new hummingbird feeder and have already attracted several visitors!!
• reorganized both mine and hubby’s dressers to better house our junk clothes
• sang with our worship band at an open air concert on Thursday night
• became the proud owner of two new desks (courtesy of craigslist)
• hung the lattice around the deck
• packed away “wintery” maternity clothes
• spent some quality time with my folks, though we did put them to work (see desk delivery and lattice)
• began thinking of Christmas card ideas since I just found oh, about 100 sheets of snowflake vellum leftover from our wedding invitations
• tried shooting in RAW, but found that it was a little too much for because because I don’t have a grasp on the processing (and had problems getting the pics to my computer and then onto Flickr)
• read a little more in my most recent book The Calder Game– young adult novel by Blue Balliet (How could I not read a book with my son’s name in the title?!)
• successfully knitted one full row on the blanket my grandma fixed started for me and I’m hoping to finish it for baby’s pending arrival
• cleaned the car and installed the freshly cleaned infant car seat
• put the window A/C in the bedroom window
• spent precious time with my boys enjoying meals on the deck, plenty of pool time and some snuggle time in there as well!

I know that much of this is obsessive nesting, and for the record I didn’t have a hand in all of these tasks.  As a pathological list-maker, I really don’t think I’ve ever made a list of tasks accomplished, and though it probably doesn’t make for a thrilling read, it makes me feel pretty good to actually see how far we’ve come! 

Blissfully tired, it’s about time I crawl into my freshly made bed, in my air-conditioned room, next to the man of my dreams!