Home Sweet Home

Home has never felt so great! 

As we pulled in to our neighborhood after our final road trip I took a deep breath and was overcome with joy and peace in knowing that this is where we belong and in 3.5 seconds I'd be able to really kick up my feet and just chill out for the first time in a week. It was wonderful being greeted by a couple of the boys who then helped us bring in our luggage, and while I was ready to be alone with just Travis, it was nice having them stay a bit and hang out. Travis taught them a few things on the guitar while I started dinner. It was a perfect evening back home. 

The icing on the cake came later in the evening...lounging on our red couch and Travis' hand on my belly with Juice Drop dancing through our entire movie! Too presh! :)

P.S. Blue Like Jazz = Uh-Mazing! 

How far along? 35 Weeks and 1 Day

Total weight gain: 28 lbs

Maternity clothes? Most of the time. 

Stretch marks? Nope 

Sleep: Oh, the ush, waking up every 1-2 hours to pee, plus my sinus infection kept me awake while in bed even more so

Best moment this week: Seeing the joy on Travis's brother's face when he saw me for the first time in a year. He had tears in his eyes and he couldn't really believe his baby niece was inside of me :)

Miss Anything? Subway and sleeping on my back

Movement: Morning, noon, and night!

Food cravings: a 12 inch turkey sub from Subway sounds amazing right about now!

Anything making you queasy or sick: Nope

Gender: GIRL!!!

Labor Signs: Braxton Hicks are getting stronger.

Symptoms: Back and rib pain, Braxton Hicks, peeing ALL THE TIME (even when hardly anything comes out!), shortness of breath, memory lapse, clumsiness, swollen fingers and toes 

Belly Button in or out? Outie!

Wedding rings on or off? Off but on a necklace, still very bitter about this.

Happy or Moody most of the time: Happy! 

Looking forward to: My sister, Emily, moving in to college tomorrow which is only 20 minutes from us!!! :)

Pictures as of late soon to come!

Oh, for the Love!

This Morning:
As I sit here in my living room full of everything that was in our downstairs closet just 15 hours ago I'm overwhelmed and ready to just throw it all away. I mean, this stuff has been in a closest for the past 6 months, how much do we really need it all?

15 Hours Prior
There was only an hour and a half to go before we began our first birthing class and I was headed to the kitchen to make dinner. As I walked on the linoleum meeting up with our front door I noticed a wet spot--lazy me walked right on past thinking Travis must have spilled a little water when he brought my cup up to me earlier. Then Travis followed my same path and actually asked, why is the floor wet? All I can think of is this scene from Christmas Vacation:

We followed the trail of water and realized after pushing our couch away from the wall, an area of about 5' x 4' of carpet was soaked! Travis stomped his foot on the wet carpet and water splashed up! Where had all this water come from?! The wall met up with our ginormous living room closet so we opened our closet door to pull out blankets, a basket of scarves and gloves, cardboard boxes full of DVDs and Travis' tools, a tent, sleeping bags, and a few other items all soaked. We finally saw where the water had come from: our A/C unit!

Now remember, dinner is already cooking...and while I'm having to tend to that and pull things out of the closet to dry the flooded closet floor, Travis is gathering towels from all over the house to dry up where the water had come up through the carpet in the living room. Maintenance quickly came over (they are awesome!) and fixed our a/c (apparently it was clogged because of how hot it got yesterday and the clog caused a leak).

At this point we had 10 minutes to scarf our cold dinner down and try to get up as much water as we could until we left for our birthing class (I was NOT going to miss that class! Nothing could stand in my way!) After 10 minutes we were on our way, happy as clams to get out of our disarrayed living room and on to learn how to deliver Juice Drop!

The birthing class was amazing! I had forgotten all about what had just taken place at home. I had so much joy and love in my heart for my baby girl there was no room for me to think about our flooded living room. We learned so many great things from relaxation and breathing techniques for labor to remembering throughout the whole process this is all about her. I felt so much peace walking away that I felt like I could do this labor thing right then and there, C'mon, let's GO! 

While we did have a major mess to deal with when we got home, we laughed at how well we handled the whole situation. We didn't get stressed, we didn't get upset at one another, I didn't cry (lol). Maybe it had to do with the fact that nothing of real importance got damaged (in fact, nothing got damaged!) or maybe it had to do with the fact that following our little flooding escapade we were able to think about nothing but our baby girl and dreaming about the day when get to finally meet her. I'm going to go with the latter on this one :)

DiSaRrAy! You can see where we've set up our heater to dry up where the water had come under the wall and into our living room. We are so close to having it all dry. All that's left is reorganizing our closet, which is something we've been wanting to do!