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Saturday, August 31, 2002 - 11:16 a.m. - Countdown - 33 Hours
All day today, Michael and I have been making comments about how we can’t believe that in just one more day after today we will be parents! There will be a new permanent member of our family. How the movie we went to tonight might be the last late night movie we go to for some time. How this morning and tomorrow morning will be the last peaceful, sleep-in morning we have for some time again. How in just a short time our lives will be forever changed. How, as Michael said in such a dreading way, in just a short time we will always have a little one either with us or to worry about. I remember going in for my surgery and thinking about how I’d be so stuck and requiring assistance for everything for a while last year. I’m not looking forward to that again, especially needing help getting in and out of bed to go to the bathroom. I’m hoping that the c-section won’t be as hard as the myomectomy was, but they are cutting into the same area, so who knows. At least I know what to expect. But at the same time, this time we are going in for a whole different reason – a much happier one. In many ways it’s a strange feeling knowing the exact day and time when your baby is going to be born. There’s none of that guessing and because of that we are so much more aware of the fact that we have all these “lasts” before our lives are changed forever. I’m not saying that people who go into labor naturally don’t also have these feelings, but it’s just so strange an idea to me to know exactly when we’ll become parents. It is pretty nice for planning purposes though. So today we started the day by sleeping in and waking leisurely to the sun shining in through our east facing window. We decided to check out the little Edmonds Saturday Farmers Market. My mom mentioned that she was going to go, so we called and arranged to meet up with them. It was pretty small, but fun. The flower bouquets were really something, and although Michael offered to buy me one, we decided not to since we wouldn’t be home most of next week to enjoy the flowers, let alone worry about them having enough water, etc. So we just enjoyed them as we walked by and my mom bought a beautiful bouquet. After we had walked through the whole market (didn’t take too long) we decided to go over to my parents for lunch. Mom prepared a wonderful tomato, fresh basil and sliced mozzarella dish with balsamic vinegar and garlic poured over it and we ate yummy crusty French bread with it followed by some wonderful strawberries and blueberries my mom had bought at the market. Yum!!! Everything was so fresh! Then we all talked some more about how we couldn’t believe the Peep was so close to being born and when my mom would come to the hospital and meet us and when my dad would come with my sister and such. My mom is going to be there during the c-section, though she doesn’t want to be in the operating room. She’s going to wait for us back in my room. My dad is going to come later and bring my sister. Hopefully my brother and his family won’t come until later in the afternoon, so I’ll have a chance to rest a little too. I really want my mom there though; even if there really isn’t anything she can do or help with. She’ll be our “official photographer” also! After we left my parents we came home and I did some more laundry and added a few more addresses to my Outlook contacts. Now I just have to copy my .pst over to the laptop and hopefully I’ll have all the email address and phone numbers I’ll need. Then we just ate a little something and went to see Minority Report. I had already seen it, but Michael wanted to see it and I wasn’t opposed to seeing it again. And now here I sit, contemplating the last few things I’d like to get done before Monday morning! Tomorrow I want to post a few pictures – my last belly shot, the baby cradle we have up in our room for the first few weeks or months of the baby’s life and the outfit we bought for our baby’s going home outfit. It was actually Michael’s Father-to-be Day gift. We think it is really sweet. I am bringing along another outfit though, just in case she spits up or has a “blow-out” all over this one. Gosh, when I type stuff like that, it just still seems so strange!! I can’t imagine that I will actually, finally have a baby of my OWN to bring HOME! Sheesh, we still have a few items that need to be completed tomorrow, but they should be pretty easy. I’m a bit leery about the whole laptop thing and whether it will work, because well, you know technology – things never work like they should the first time around and I’ve been waiting for Michael to deal with this one thing. As always, he’s procrastinated until the end. Oh and we still have to test out the video camera (uggh, another Michael task that hasn’t happened – it drives me batty!!).
Things to do before the Peep arrives (not an any specific order) : • • • • • Put film in cameras (make sure memory sticks are in digital camera case and ready to go) • • • • • • • • Test laptop access phone numbers (we found this won’t work. We have DSL access and would have to pay extra for dial-up access even for just a short time. So it looks like we might use one of those “trial memberships” from AOL or MSN and then just cancel it when we get home) • • • • • • Decide what to pack for “entertainment” at the hospital • • • • • • • • • • •
Wow, only 1 more full day!!
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