I have a list of things that need to be done before Evelyn arrives:
1. Clean out the garage
- about 6 months before I got pregnant I decided to renovate our house. I began with the living room, painting all the woodwork and walls... even getting new furniture. Then I took on the kitchen. I ripped up all the countertops and put down tile on the countertops. i put brick pavers in as the backsplash. i installed a butcher block, new sink, and new stove. I tore out a cabinet to install a trash compactor. I also painted all the woodwork in the kitchen. I didn't hire anyone!!!! Needless to say I worked my butt off. Our garage became my workspace and my time was NOT spent cleaning up after myself. The house looks GREAT! the garage became a complete disaster area. saw dust, paint, mortar, concrete, tools were everywhere!! we couldn't even walk through the garage... before this baby gets here we HAD to undo what I had done to the garage.
2. Turn the office into a nursery
3. have our carpets professionally cleaned
- our carpets in the bedrooms have gotten a bit splotchy from my puppies... not good for a baby
I know there's so much more to this list. the point is, we finally knocked off one of big ones. Jordan and I took a deep breath yesterday morning and went full speed ahead and turned our demolished concrete room attached to the side of the house into a functioning and CLEAN garage!! it feels so good to have that done!! but, i over did it. I started having sharp pains in my lower abdomen, probably from stooping and lifting for 5 hours straight. The pain got really bad last evening. I finally called the doctor and they told me to take a warm bath, take some tylenol and lie down for the rest of the night. And to check occassionally to make sure I wasn't bleeding. I began to feel better and this morning felt just fine (aside from my daily headache) although I keep checking for blood just to be sure. but, all is fine. needless to say, evelyn warned me that she really doesn't like manual labor!!
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Love your blog, Liz!
ReplyDeleteI can remember when I was pregnant with Bailey, we decided to extend our back patio. This required numerous trips with bags of sand and pavers. My neighbors were mortified that I was partaking in the project. I didn't think it was any big deal. Now that I'm NOT the one in the hot seat, I can say, "Don't lift anything heavy, Missy!" Milk this time for all it's worth, because no one will have any sympathy for you here in a few months. :-)