This early prediction in no way indicates that I am ready. I have just finally reached a point where I don't think I can hold out for over a month. My body has reached the limit of weight it can carry. On some level it knows I'm not suppose to weigh more than Chris at any time in my life, even now. I'm tired and achy.
On Monday I took my first pregnancy related sick day due to a pain in my side. Don't worry, it's nothing serious, just the the pregnant version of a stitch in my side, but it hurt enough that I needed to lay around for most of the day. That day got me thinking about what I would do if SM decided to come right NOW.
I know what is left to do at home to prepare SM. It's mostly organizational and sorting out the initial sleeping situation. Taking that day off made me realize that I am in no way prepared for maternity leave at work either. There are several tasks that only I know about and documents stored locally on my computer (or worse - on my desk, including stuff sent to me from the last woman to go on leave). So great, now I need to nest in two places.
One of the things we've had to do at home to prepare is get the cats ready. I'm not worried about what Russell will do. I'm sure that poor old guy will find a closet corner to make his own, but Skeeter is a different story. As soon as we put the crib together, she was in it. Our short term solution was to prop the mattress on it's side, but since SM can't sleep on it that way we needed another way to discourage Skeeter from getting in there to play or worse sleep with SM (she tried to sleep on my face the other night). So we layered it with looped packing tape.
Kitten trap 1, kitten 0.
Chris has some video of the poor thing before he took pity on her and got the tape off of her feet. If I can figure out how to post it I will. It's cruel and hilarious.
O! M! GOSH! You are the cuuuuuuutesssssstt thing ever!!!!I bet you hate comments like that but hahahahaha toooo bad! Miss you mama!
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