lovely day.

The weather was beautiful today, and Firefly and I made the most of it. Well, after sleeping in. Hey, we’re not going to get to do much of that very soon here, so I don’t feel too guilty about it.

We went outside and cleaned things up in the carport, and then I went around and did some work in the yard while Firefly started cleaning her motorcycle up for the winter. It was only ridden once this year, for obvious reasons, but still needs the chrome and everything cleaned up before the cover goes on for the winter. I picked some things up and cut down saplings that had grown up where they shouldn’t have (and they probably should have been cut down months ago but we’ve been a little preoccupied). Firefly was starting to get stiff and having trouble bending over, so we switched up. She got the last of what I had cleaned up cut to length and in the cans to be picked up while I polished the chrome on the bike’s front wheel. It still needs some work, but the sun was starting to get lower and we were getting tired so we left it for now.

We spent the rest of the evening having dinner and relaxing together, and even managed to get a couple of loads of laundry done and put away. Oh, and yesterday I got the blinds put up in my office while Firefly napped, and we went to a hockey game. Hooray!

I think I might actually get into bed before midnight tonight. I don’t know when the last time that happened was!

Oh, and also for those following TheSaraProject, I realized I forgot to post Friday’s picture. Oops! It’s up now, and I’m up to 14.

she loves me.

She loves me a lot.

Know how I know?

Because when I got home from work yesterday there was a package waiting for me. She was out mowing and…well, it was addressed to me, so I opened it. And I found this:

Pretty cool, right? But what is it?

Ooooh! Neat! And just what I’ve been wanting without even realizing it! Look at the little dried flower on the cover:

And the ribbon binding:

They even sent little pins so that we can add, reorganize, or remove pages, and work with the book without having to keep re-tying the ribbon. How cool is that?

Inside it has lots of pages for the mommies to write things, or put pictures. Like this one, which has places to write how mom knew it was happening, and how she told mom:

Or this one, to talk about the nice man who helped us get pregnant (although we don’t know much about him, seeing as he was anonymous, but still, I’m sure we’ll have something we can write):

Mirrored pages for our family trees:

A page for his name and how we decided on it:

There are even some pocket pages to put things we’d like to be able to take in and out:

This one, though, is the one I’m looking forward to filling out the most:

tired.

I’m very much looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow. So much so that I just dozed off at my desk. So sad.

I got home from work today to find Firefly out on the mower mulching up all the leaves. While she finished up I came in and got my office light working again, along with a few other things. We had homemade chili for dinner and watched some TV, and talked a little bit about where to hang some things in the master bath, but other than that it was a pretty laid-back evening.

I’m good with laid-back evenings right now. We’ll have plenty to do tomorrow.

oh yeah!

I forgot to tell you my funny story from last week!

So I came home from work and I went walking down the hall with Firefly following me to chat about nothing in particular…and then out of nowhere she says, “did you know you have a hole in your pants?”

“What?! No! Where!”

“Um. Right there. In your butt.”

“OH MY GOD! I have a hole in my butt? You mean I’ve been walking around showing my ass to everyone at work all day? How bad is it?!”

“Not too bad. It’s pretty small. I mean, I can tell that you’re wearing red and white striped undies, but…”

“WHAT?! You can see what color my panties are and it’s not too bad?  Aaaahhhhhh!” All while I’m trying to get them off to see just how bad the hole is.

Yeah. It was sooooo funny. Sigh.

starting off november.

Today is November 1st, and the official start of NaBloPoMo. I’ve decided to go for it and try to post at least once every day this month, even though the baby is due to arrive just two weeks from today. If I don’t make it, so be it. It’s good to have gals. Er…goals.

I would also like to say that I am rather proud of myself today. I had a secret that I managed to keep from Firefly for nearly two whole months–which if you know me is a huge feat. We went to what she thought was a nice lunch and games at Dawn and her partner’s house, but it was really a surprise visit by our friend from Amsterdam who is in town for the week. Firefly was so surprised she did a double take when the door opened!

Of course I did mess up a little bit, thinking that we were supposed to go over at 2 this afternoon when it was actually 12:30. We figured it out early enough that we were only 15 minutes late, so it wasn’t so bad. We were there into the evening, and then came home and crashed on the couch for a bit before she had to head off to work. She’s moderately regretting not having the doctor write her off of work this week, but hopefully it won’t be too bad for her. Just four more nights and she’ll be home.

Tomorrow I’m going to skip out on chorus rehearsal to go out to dinner with a bunch of folks including our visitor. It should be fun!

I can’t believe we’re only two weeks away from meeting our monkey, give or take a few days!

clean.

We got my office cleaned up and a lot of cleaning up and organizing done in the nursery, even after sleeping in very late and me sleeping for about an hour in the early evening. My sinuses are not happy right now. Hopefully they’ll be better tomorrow. Now I’m going to cuddle with my wife and watch some TV. And probably doze off until she wakes me and tells me it’s time to go to bed.

oh oh yeah.

And I forgot to mention in my other post some not so good news. My sister’s been sick. I called her yesterday and told her she should go to the doctor, and what do you know she actually listened. She went in. And they immediately called the squad to come and take her to the hospital.

She’s got that piggy thing. I tried to call her to see how she is but I’m guessing she was sleeping. We haven’t had any direct contact with her so it’s not likely we’ve been exposed, but it’s still a little scary. I hope she feels better soon.

hey, guess what?

Firefly actually agreed to let me post a belly picture, as long as it was in a password protected post. So I’m gonna! If you want to see it you’ll need to contact me directly, either through the contact link up there in the menu bar or by email if you know it.

In the meantime, here’s another picture from our trip last weekend:

Red-tailed hawk. So beautiful. She has a permanently injured wing, so she lives at a nature center.

ok, seriously.

We have so much to do! I’m going to skip darts tomorrow night and instead stay home and finish staining the last of the wood for the trim in our bedroom, that way I can get it done without her in the house when I’m filling it with fumes (part of why I’ve been putting it off). I also have a ton of stuff to do in my office, especially since the futon is in here now so if her parents stay with us at all when the monkey arrives they’ll have a nice clean place–preferably with blinds–in which to sleep. I don’t even want to think about the mess the house is and all the other things that need to be done around here.

AND, oh my goodness I still need to pack the hospital bag. We’re less than three weeks away! She’s full term! What am I thinking?!

And plus also too we still have no car seat. I have visions of us heading to the hospital and having to send my mom out to get one so we can take him home. Gah!

what a nice weekend.

Well, we are home safe and sound and Firefly is back at work. She’s planning to work this week, but it’s likely that after the appointment with the OB on Thursday this’ll be it. She’s getting really worn out and having some issues with being on her feet and working overnight, and she is ready to be done.

As for our weekend, we had pretty good weather on Thursday–although it got cloudy as the day went on and we had a little rain late in the evening. We spent much of the evening alone in the cabin, making a yummy dinner and spending some time reading together in front of the fire. Friday we slept in a bit, then went into town and got some lunch and a puzzle to occupy us in the rainy afternoon.

Dee and Pia arrived late Friday afternoon and we spent some time hanging out while they got situated, then we headed over to meet up with the rest of our friends for a group dinner. They were going to watch a scary movie, and…well, I can’t do scary movies, so we headed back to our cabin, started the fire back up, worked on the puzzle, and then played poker until we were all tuckered out.

Saturday was rainy, too, so we made a yummy hot breakfast in the cabin and headed to town to take a scenic railroad trip, which was fun. Other than that we mostly just hung out, worked on the puzzle, and enjoyed the fire and good company. We did go over to our friends’ cabin for a little bit late in the evening, after the rain had stopped, to hang out and be social before heading back and turning in.

Today was beautiful, of course, so we loaded up the vehicles, checked out, and did a bit of fishing before hitting the road. I got some pictures, although not as many as I would have liked. I’ll try to get some posted tomorrow, but for now it’s time for me to head to bed.

My comfy bed. That I will hopefully only have to occupy alone for the next 4 nights.