love my lunch time naps!

I swear- that is what is keeping me going and plugging thru my 10 hour work days. I love my lunch time nap in my car. Even if I cant sleep, just laying back with my eyes closed for 15-20 minutes is all I need.

Naps should be mandatory for us adults.... they are so rejuvinating! Wish I napped on my lunches this whole pregnancy, and might continue them after baby comes too.

happy birthday to ME!

I turn 29 today. Feels just like any other day. If we were still TTC I might be a little sad today, so I am happy to be pregnant.

I was thinking in the shower- the best place to think, besides on my drive to work. I want to blog what a day in my life is like right now. And maybe next year I can do the same when I turn 30.

I think my life has been pretty much like this for the last 4 years, since I have had this job. Work is seasonal, so in the spring I average about 70-80 hours a week (this year being pg, I worked just 60/week). Summer I work 45-50 hours a week. In the fall, 60 hours/week has been the norm, this season so far 50... but I think I need to cut back to 45 now. My days are always 10 hour days in the growing season. I like the winter. I work 4-5, 8 hour days. and get some time off. I like to go to bed early and wake early. I make the lunches, and most of the dinners (chris made all the dinners this spring- too queezy for me!). I work about 75% of the weekends between april-October: I get some weekdays off. And all weekends off Nov.-March. Our growing season weekends that I have off are always booked. Majority of winter weekends are booked too.

I am interested in how things are going to change. I have talked to my boss about working just 60 hours/week in the spring, 40 in the summer, and 50 in the fall. Then take time off in the winter accordingly to work 2100 hours total in the course of the year. (not this 2600 hours/ year B.S!)

I do love my job, and I believe I do a good job at it. But there is more to life then working so much! (oh, it is about 35 miles to get to work~45 minutes) I do hope that at this time next year I am saying the I am working less hours, and still doing a great job at work. I want to feel like I am spending time with my family, and taking care of home stuff too.

tap.....tap.....tap.....

It's probably dark in there, right? So I cant really blame the baby for not knowing the difference between night and day. I have been woken up every now and again from little kicks and punches. But last night was party time in there! Unbelievable all the action going in my belly while I am trying to sleep. It is just after 8am, and I have been up since 4:30. In the last 3.5 hours I have barely felt a thing. Figures!

I do find all those movements to be a little freaky. I cant help but think of aliens in my belly. Sometimes the kicks are so big, that my entire belly jolts a few inches up. I can watch it for a bit, then I have to look away- I cant believe no one gets hurt. The elasticity of my uterus is amazing. And the strength of someone that weighs just shy of 3 lbs is unbelievable.

No boy name's yet

The crib situation is fixed! I got the right one, and an additional 10% off. Yay! I am happy. Cant wait till it is time to set up the nursery. Just a little more work is left in the new office/craft room area.

We had yet another busy weekend. Nothing like last weekend, there was some relaxing involoved this time. I helped my mom fill out shower invitations. One more visit to my parents (for the shower) and then next time we see them the baby will be here! Makes time feel so short when you look at it that way.

Chris and I talked boy baby names for over an hour. Still no contenders. Not one.

the wrong crib!

That put a damper on my spirits. I bought the crib last night, and the store gave me the white crib instead of the woodgrain crib. I asked the High School aged boy loading it up if he was sure this was the woodgrain and not the white, and he said yes. Turd. I am not happy. This thing is huge, and it is in the house.

We're not ready for it yet- but it was on sale. We just dont have the time to be hauling cribs around either.

on the same page

Chris and I had a ton of windshield time this weekend. Long story short, ~our~ grandma had a stroke friday. She was supposed to be leaving the hospital that day from open heart surgery a week before. She is doing better now. So we went to see her saturday morning, then drove over 5 hours from there to a wedding. We spent 12 hours in our truck this weekend!

So, we had plenty of talk time. We discussed what all we have going on between now and when baby comes. EVERY weekend is booked. Of course we have a ton to do before baby gets here.

I am so happy that we are on the same page about lots of things. We both agree that the nursery needs to be ready by week 34 because Chris is going to be 10 hours away hunting when we are in weeks 35/36. We want to have the bottles washed and the babies laundry done by then too. We both agreed that we need to find some time to do something fun together before he leaves for his trip. The time is getting short that we can just up and go on a casino run. We both agreed that after Thanksgiving weekend we are planning NOTHING and committing to NOTHING.

Tie me down, please

Life is going to change dramatically in about 3 months. It won't be all that easy just to get up and go somewhere with a newborn baby to care for. It will be difficult to decide out of the blue that I am going out for dinner with friends after work.

I look forward to being tied down a bit. Right now things are so busy. And they have been for months. All free weekends have been booked and are booked long in advance. The baby is not here and Chris and I have been trying to find one moment for the past 2 weeks to go to the casino to spend my birthday money- thier has been no free moments. And I dont see one in the near future either.

So, come on baby! Tie us down. Force us to stay home and not be running non-stop.