Today

I'm at a loss for something really helpful or witty to post today, so I thought I would just post about my day. We had major storms last night and have been without power until just a few minutes ago. Don't start feeling sorry for me, we have a generator, but I did have to wait to get started on laundry, so now I get to tackle that.

I am feeling smart at the moment because I was flipping breaker switches around and turning the generator on and off, and calling out things like,"Did the light turn on?!?" to my five year old, and "What about now?!?" and "Let me try this switch!!!" This is all technical jargon that rarely if ever comes out of my Little House on the Prairie mouth, and I couldn't help but giggle while shouting.

Today is my husband's birthday. He's 26 now. Yeah, we're real old, and mature too. We even have a few gray hairs! He requested a Mock Chocolate Eclair for his birthday cake and my fabulous pizza. Easy enough. The Eclair is finished, and I will start the bread machine in an hour or two.

I've been working away at my list of things to get done before the baby is born, and I can't really say I've gotten very far. You know how the rules for lists go. You are supposed to tackle the ones that will take you the least amount of time first, so that you see progress. Well, for some reason, I decided to be a rule breaker, and I started on the things that take the longest to do, like the quilt. I'm happy to say though that I believe I will be able to cross the birth box off the list in a few hours. I just have to get a few more things washed. I might even decide to get those pesky doors washed today, but maybe not, I'm having blood sugar issues, so I may just work on the quilt some more.

I've got almost all of the cutting done on the quilt. I despise the cutting out part. I am a non-conformist and anti-perfectionist, so the very idea of making all 84 rectangles the same exact measurement with absolutely no deviation for the prairie points goes against everything that I hold sacred. It just seems silly. It goes against my very nature, the very nature that God gave me. But, I have to admit the cute little piles of squares and rectangles all the exact same size all stacked up neatly does give me a warm fuzzy feeling. It will be worth it when the quilt is done. I keep wondering if I will ever truly love quilting, or just the results. I love the results. I don't think anything gives me a greater feeling of satisfaction when finished, well maybe the birth of a child, but that is a close call. Just kidding (kind of).

I got our extra changing table cleaned off and scrubbed down today. We are donating it to our church because they don't have a decent place to change the babies. We had been using it as a place to pile stuff. It was a great place, but hadn't you heard, I'm anti-clutter, so it was getting on my nerves. Now it's sparkly clean. I wish I had put that on my baby list, then I'd at least have gotten credit for doing it, bad move on my part.

It got all of the linens changed today too. This makes me feel like I've gotten something done, especially at this stage in pregnancy. Changing the bottom bunk linens is no easy task. I worked up a nice stinky sweat on that one!

So, that's what I have gotten done today, and my plans for the rest of the day. Not a whole lot, I know, but it will just have to do until I'm not walking around here feeling like behemoth. Does anyone have the Ken Ham Answers in Genesis Dinosaur dvd? They sing a song on that, "Behemoth is a dinosaur, a dinosaur is he....." It's stuck in my head, every time I start walking I sing it......