Look OUT!!!

So I made it thru my Dr. appt. - the 36 week check. I am dialated to 2 and 50% effaced - we'll see where that leads. My guess is that I will stay like that for a while. I think I will just keep telling myself that it will be a while yet so that I don't get my hopes up. Really though, I am going crazy trying to get last minute stuff done! LOL - the nesting part of pregnancy.

Got the carpets all cleaned today. Last night was a BIG night of moving tables and little things off the carpet. I met the cleaner here at 8:00am and then came home from work to a CLEAN and good smelling home. Bad part is - we had to put much of the furniture back tonight. I am AMAZED with the carpet though - it looks like new - almost better than new! No more spots, no sticky feeling, etc... Well worth the money!

The apples that we picked on Sat. - we got those all taken care of now. I made one GREAT apple crisp, and then last night we were having fruit flys flying around so I told Kyle we need to cook the remaining apples. So at 9:00pm he started peeling and coring the apples. We did a HUGE batch of applesause that turned out great too. That will come in handy come next month for a good side dish with easy dinners once the baby comes! I also want to make a few dishes of cheesy potatos that I can easily throw in the oven. Better get some frozen hashbrowns and cheese.

Tomorrow's schedule: (this is more for me - skip if it bores you)

9:15 - leave to bring Braelyn to school

9:35 - drop of property tax payment

9:45 - Michael's Craft Store (to get: a black shelf for girls room, & iron on transfer paper for the girls' big sister shirts)

10:15 - home and do some cleaning - vacuum and mop wood floors (carpets are done - YEAH!)

11:15 - head back to school to get Braelyn

11:35 - home for lunch with the girls

12:15 - 1:30 - play time with girls

1:30 - girls down for naps and time for mom to sit and relax!!!

4:00 - girls up and play time - hopefully outside a bit
5:00 - clean bathrooms (bonus if I get this done before 5:00!!!)

6:00 - Kyle home and time to eat - easy Fri. night dinner at home.

We'll see how that schedule really pans out - LOL!

And here is my reminder list of things to do in the next few days:

*hang the girls shelf and picture in room

*print pictures for the little baby album that Braelyn bought for the baby as gift

*print out the visitor signature page for baby album

*pack bags for me and Kyle and for the girls

*find pictures of both girls at hospital to hang in our hospital room this time to see if the baby will look like either of them!

I did finish a few LO's recently and uploaded them to my galleries tonight. This first one is for a new album I am working on that I will call my Praying Parent book. I am using the prayers from the book "Power of a Praying Parent" by Stormie Omartian. I read the book this summer and really found it helpful. I am not a good pray-er and I think having these to look at and read as prayers to start will help me establish my own prayers in time. I will stick with these similar papers and use these great doodle swirl overlays by the New Designer coming tomorrow to the Lilypad.

And this LO is a LO using Shabby Miss Jenn Designs new Cherrywood Farm kit. I can just say WOW for this kit - literally almost speechless. This kit put me in the mood for fall! I used this LO as my submission for the Hodge Podge challenge this week!

That is it for tonight I guess. My little gal is just a KICKING away - I hope she settles down so I can get some sleep - I think she is using me as a punching bag - super crazy hard. Oh yeah - she has completely dropped too - like she is down there for SURE. Crazy how I always wondered why pregnant woman "waddle" towards the end. Well now that is me - I have to waddle just because I feel like there is a watermellon between my legs - LOL! I just can't WAIT to meet her and to find out if she looks like her sisters did at birth or what. OK - NIGHT! (or good day if you aren't reading this until tomorrow)

MandaKay