By Julie

To Do List:

1. Pack for hospital, including admittance paperwork.
2. Finish remodeling the nursery and move all furniture back in.
3. Wash and put away all 0-3 month baby clothes.
4. Buy car seat and two bases.
5. Early bird registration for Alex's after school care and Ana's preschool.
6. Bring home all work stuff I'll need during my leave.
7. Miscellaneous other work projects.

Things we just crossed off the list:

1. Buy size 1 diapers.
2. Test the breast pump to see if it still works.
3. Take Ana on a tour of the preschool she'll be attending in the fall.
4. Talk to kids about baby proofing the living room.

In addition to the baby proofing talk, we also cleaned the entire living room. It took all four of us over an hour, maybe almost two, to pick up and put away every piece of kid debris off the sofa and the floor so that we could vacuum without sucking up something that would break the machine. I did not take before/after photos because it would scare childless folks into never having kids.

I just finished reading Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone, by Beth Lisick. I almost didn't make it past the first chapter because I found her writing lacking compared to some of the bloggers I read daily. Plus I didn't like her personality. By the end of her year-long odyssey, I felt like I could almost enjoy her as a casual acquaintance, but her relentless cynicism would probably keep us from becoming close friends.

Labels: books, home improvement, parenting, pregnancy

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