It has been 21 days since my last post, so I figure I had better get on it before my cousin in China yells at me. By the way, Emily, congrats on your own new daughter. You have been a warm and compassionate person your entire life and I am certain that you are an amazing mother!
Now on to our own update. We have been in our house for a little over a month now. We got everything moved out of our old apartment and into the house by December 20th. In the midst of our moving, we managed to get the bathroom redone, most of the walls in the first floor painted, and new carpet installed. We are currently restoring the wood floors in two of our rooms (one will be the nursery), and we will be getting some electrical work done as well. In the midst of making cosmetic improvements we have stumbled across some things that needed to be fixed, but on the whole we have been fortunate to have a house that has been relatively easy to convert into something that feels a little more like our own every day.
Erin is doing well. With 10 weeks to go in her pregnancy we feel like the time will both fly by quickly and drag on slowly simultaneously. She is very healthy and everything continues to go smoothly with the pregnancy. We still haven't completely settled on a name for the child yet and we still have various nursery things to collect, but I think we will manage to pull it together by the time the small person gets here.
What more can I say? Everything is well and with a little luck we can have most of our house updates/repairs done by the end of the year. Sorry this isn't a long update, but life has been moving along far too fast to think about much else.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Playing catch-up
Well, I see that it has been a few weeks since my last post. Allow me to give you a brief update.
We finally closed on our house the day before Thanksgiving. More surprising than that was that the woman who had owned it had managed to get everything completely out of the house and had cleaned it for us before she left. We were very pleased to be able to step into our new house later that evening. My mother and step-father were there to see the house in all of it's extremely dated beauty and we immediately started calling contractors and painters and such to make changes to the place before we moved in. We have our contractor hired but we are still looking for someone to paint and lay carpet. I am going to personally handle pulling up carpet and restoring the hardwood floors underneath in two of our rooms. We have begun moving our stuff to locations in the house that are not going to be affected by anything else. We intend to be moved by the 20th so our current landlord will be able to get his crew into our old apartment to clean and paint before the next person moves in.
Moving in December is about as fun as you might expect. Not too much snow to speak of (thank goodness) but wearing a bulky coat can make lifting some things kind of interesting. Plus, Erin is not able to help with any of the heavy lifting so I am getting a bit of a workout these days. I will need to find help moving the big items (furniture, washer/dryer, etc.). Frankly, we may end up hiring someone to do that as every strong person I know either lives far away or they are injured and shouldn't be lifting things like that.
As far as Erin is concerned, she is doing ok. The pregnancy is progressing just fine and mother and baby are both as healthy as can be. We have officially entered the third trimester and the baby is still breach. There is still time for her to turn, but if she does not then Erin might have to have a C-section, which she is really not keen on.
Erin and I love the idea of having a baby. We can't wait to be parents and we are looking forward to all of the changes it will bring. However, as much as Erin is looking forwards to being a mother, she absolutely HATES being pregnant. Some women don't have any problems through their pregnancy and everything is absolutely smooth sailing. Erin has a lot of pain and, as with most every pregnant women, she hates always having to buy new clothes because she doesn't fit into her old ones -- even though she will most likely outgrow the new ones within a month or two. Fortunately none of her problems have anything to do with the fact that she is diabetic. She is just miserable all the time. I wish I could help her more with that. I guess that lifting heavy boxes is my load to carry. The only difference is that I can set my load down and rest and she has hers all day, every day.
More updates when I can. Life is, to say the least, very busy these days.
We finally closed on our house the day before Thanksgiving. More surprising than that was that the woman who had owned it had managed to get everything completely out of the house and had cleaned it for us before she left. We were very pleased to be able to step into our new house later that evening. My mother and step-father were there to see the house in all of it's extremely dated beauty and we immediately started calling contractors and painters and such to make changes to the place before we moved in. We have our contractor hired but we are still looking for someone to paint and lay carpet. I am going to personally handle pulling up carpet and restoring the hardwood floors underneath in two of our rooms. We have begun moving our stuff to locations in the house that are not going to be affected by anything else. We intend to be moved by the 20th so our current landlord will be able to get his crew into our old apartment to clean and paint before the next person moves in.
Moving in December is about as fun as you might expect. Not too much snow to speak of (thank goodness) but wearing a bulky coat can make lifting some things kind of interesting. Plus, Erin is not able to help with any of the heavy lifting so I am getting a bit of a workout these days. I will need to find help moving the big items (furniture, washer/dryer, etc.). Frankly, we may end up hiring someone to do that as every strong person I know either lives far away or they are injured and shouldn't be lifting things like that.
As far as Erin is concerned, she is doing ok. The pregnancy is progressing just fine and mother and baby are both as healthy as can be. We have officially entered the third trimester and the baby is still breach. There is still time for her to turn, but if she does not then Erin might have to have a C-section, which she is really not keen on.
Erin and I love the idea of having a baby. We can't wait to be parents and we are looking forward to all of the changes it will bring. However, as much as Erin is looking forwards to being a mother, she absolutely HATES being pregnant. Some women don't have any problems through their pregnancy and everything is absolutely smooth sailing. Erin has a lot of pain and, as with most every pregnant women, she hates always having to buy new clothes because she doesn't fit into her old ones -- even though she will most likely outgrow the new ones within a month or two. Fortunately none of her problems have anything to do with the fact that she is diabetic. She is just miserable all the time. I wish I could help her more with that. I guess that lifting heavy boxes is my load to carry. The only difference is that I can set my load down and rest and she has hers all day, every day.
More updates when I can. Life is, to say the least, very busy these days.
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