Nesting Part 1

I really have no excuse for not being on top of blogging. I usually have time now everyday where I could sit and do this but I haven't been feeling it. So we will see where this post takes us.

Yes, I am off work. Last Thursday was it and it really has been weird to think that I don't have to go back for a few months. I have been doing little projects around the house to try and get ready for Katelynn but every time I really think about it there seems so be so much more that I need and want to do before she comes. Hopefully, she'll come when I am ready (insert laughing here). I guess I will just take this all one day at a time and whatever happens, happens. Everyone says though that she could be here any day now and that is a little crazy.

The house is slowly getting cleaned up and ready. I do little projects a day towards that one. My mom came over last week and helped me do some stuff and she'll be coming out once a week to help and for company. We went through the pantry last week and was quite amazed at how much stuff I had that was expired. I try not to buy stuff that won't be used but I guess things slip to the back of the cupboard.

My mind is going in so many different directions sometimes that I can't figure out what I should be doing. I just want everything to be okay and everything will be since I have Ben and he is a huge strength to me.

Here are a couple of Layouts from Katelynn's book.


I hope to get that futher along so I can be ready to just put the pictures of her in it when she comes. We shall see. I hope everyone is well. Type at you later.

4 am

I hate that time of day. For the past few weeks I have been waking up at that time for no good reason. I turn over and look at the clock and it says 4:00. Of course I don't get out of bed but instead I usually lay there for 30 min to an hour trying to fall back to sleep, but then Ben's alarm goes off at 5am and I am awaken again. I know that it is only going to get worse. I just hope that 4 am isn't her wake up time. The funny thing is Ben has been doing the same thing too. I don't know if I wake him up by turning (I don't turn very agile any more, there is alot of shaking going on when I turn in bed, well, I am not agile in any move I make in that case anyways)or if he wakes up himself but we both hate to see that time on our clocks.

Call Off

So, Friday I asked the charge nurse if I could be placed on the call off list for Sunday. The census has been extremely low and they have been sending nurses all over the hospital to cover other units so I thought it was worth a shot. Since it was a holiday it was going to be a long shot that they would actually call me off. The worst that could happen was they would not call and I would have to go to work.

My alarm went off at 5am and I waited until 5:19 and was loosing hope, but then it happened my cell rang and the night shift charge was calling and telling me I was called off. WOO-HOO!!! So, I spent Easter with Ben and we are now down to just Thursday for working. One day. I can make it.

Anna

Success!!

Saturday was very successful for my mom and I. Ben decided that he really didn't need anything at REI and slept in instead. So, I met up with my mom and we walked around Old Town. This is my favorite thing about them living so close to Old Town we don't have to hunt for parking and a half a block away is where the fun begins. I was searching for anything cute and relativly inexpensive. What we found were BOWS! I got a couple at my shower and from Target and I doubled my supply at the Big Hat Days. Amy and Ammy would be very happy with my finds. I did decide though that the $6 that they were charging for the bow keeper was a little too much and we could make that ourselves and we did for $1.50. Ben thinks I am nuts with all the bows but, I like them I even got one for Fourth of July.


There weren't too many children's clothes but we did find one outfit. I think it is so cute. I can't wait until she fits it.


The biggest success of the day was finding this name puzzle. I have learned that Katelynn isn't the most common way to spell her name but it is an accepeted way to spell it and so I wasn't expecting to find her name as a puzzle but it was and I had to get it. Now it is in the nursery waiting for her to play with it when she gets older.


Just an FYI: Only 3 more shifts!!

Type at you later.

Anna