Moopers’s Weblog

Happy 2009 new year everyone!  A mere 6-8 weeks left!

What a wonderful holiday season this was for us.  I stayed local for xmas for the first time since L & I met ten years ago.  Most of our friends and L’s family were around and of course not working, so we got to spend quality time with them at heaps of fun gatherings.

Now we’re in the last couple of days before the everyone goes back to work.  We’re in the home stretch of the pregnancy, so we’re in serious baby prep mode.

A contractor is going to work on expanding the nursery and widening the closet door starting Monday.  So today we got trim and moulding and picked up the closet door from the Home Depot.

We went down to J&L’s and dropped off my huge amp to make space for us.  It was nice hanging out with them and learning the next round of Baby Knowledge.  They are lending us another huge pile of clothes and gear.

The registry work for the baby shower has been excruciating.  We have lists of things we are told we need, but we don’t really understand what everything is for, let alone what brands are best.  And when it comes to bottles, diapers and lots of other things, we simply don’t have the basis to make decisions.  Which makes such decisions very painful for us because we like to make informed choices.

This is going to be a very busy month with the construction project, P’s project, L’s final 3 weeks of work.  Plus two baby classes, at least two doctor/ultrasound appointments, and the remaining things on our list.

But… I have to say… we are s o o o o o o elated about our life right now.

It’s going to be insane once the babies are born… L will likely be recovering from a c-section and major hormone changes.  We’ll have two hungry, crying, squirming tykes unaccustomed to breathing oxygen.  We’ll be sleep deprived and uncertain on how to deal.  (I am going to set up an Excel chart showing level of pandemonium over time.)

Our motto is: “We can get through it.”