Life is getting better

It's been a crazy busy four weeks. Doug and I are just getting settled
into our new house.
Yes, we moved. People keep asking me why we moved when I was seven
months pregnant and I say, why not?
The real reason is this: after doing a few projects on our Shoreline
house and realizing that we wanted a house with
more options in a better neighborhood we decided to move before the
baby was born. So, we found a house the first day
we started looking, but continued to look for another week just in case
there was something better out there and there
really wasn't so, we put in our offer and voila! Ten days later we
signed the paperwork.
That was the easy part, moving and preparing the house for sale was
hard work. Fortunately, Doug's dad and sister, MaryAnne
came out to Seattle and they helped us finish the house. It looks so
beautiful now, that I wish that we'd done this a couple
of years before. However, the new owners will just love it.

Anyway, the new refrigerator has been purchased, ordered and will be
delivered on Tuesday in the AM.
I had to open a Lowe's credit card to get the 10% discount, but we also
got a rebate for the delivery too.
Their customer service is really terrible because nobody knows what's
going on. So, I took advantage of
the confusion and got the discount and the rebate, which they did not
want to give to me, so I worked with
an inexperienced sales associate who gave me all the stuff I wanted and
then I went to customer service
and they gave it the rubber stamp!

I talked to my mom today and she said that she ordered the crib for us
as well as a mattress. I told her
that we had already gotten the crib. Apparently, there was some kind
of confusion with our registery, so she said we should
get the "buggy" instead. She was pretty excited about it. I filled
her in on all the latest news and then we talked
about her coming out here. I told her that we preferred to wait until
after the baby was born to have her come on up and
she seemed to think that was okay. I can't believe how excited
everyone is for this baby? Here I've been going
around just trying to survive pregnancy, buying a new house, moving,
selling a house, photographing weddings,
going to physical therapy appointments, dealing with hateful people and
now gestational diabetes,
that I just didn't know that everyone was getting revved up for the
baby.

I really wanted to be able to relax the last few weeks of pregnancy, in
order to sit back on my ever expanding laurels and
eat bonbons and drink tea while listening to classical music wistfully
dreaming of holding my baby boy. But, my dream
flies in the face of my true reality. However, a nurse from my OBGYN's
office just called to tell me that the ultrasound results looked really
great and that the baby is progressing very well despite the diabetes.
I'm grateful for that.

Life is good though, I just finished eating a turkey sandwich at our
great little breakfast nook with our two little doggies next
to me. I can hear the rain beating against the glass door leading to
the terrace of our beautiful home and I am happy to be
here. I am so thankful for all that we have and for having such a good
husband and friend. I can't imagine going
through all of this for anyone other than Doug.