18 Weeks and Counting Down!

And so it begins...the random stranger asking when I'm due (staring at my already huge belly), me responding with "right before Christmas" and then the dreaded "Wow" response, or "Is it just one?"  UGH!  Although Christmas seems like quite awhile away, 18 weeks doesn't seem like nearly enough time to get everything done around our house.  In fact, my heart is rapidly beating as I write this.  It's amazing how busy things have gotten around here!

By week 21 with Elijah, we had a crib set up and his room had been painted (twice)!  This is what our little girl's room currently looks like...

I promise, the rest of our house DOES NOT look like this!  This "extra" room became our everything room...we stuffed a futon, a treadmill, a large bookcase, all my sewing stuff and Dustin's hobby things into this room.  Now, it all has to get out!  I have no idea where everything is going to go because we don't have another room to put it all...how I wish we had a basement!

Then, we have to agree on a paint color for baby girl's room.  I'm sure we'll want to get this right the first time because Dustin painted Elijah's room twice before I approved of it!  I know he'll have nothing of that this time.

The good news is that baby girl has 2 boxes of diapers and a few articles of clothing.  Aside from conquering this room, I think about Christmas shopping, baking for the church coffee house, making 50 burp cloths for a mission trip and preparing to sell burp cloths at an art tour in November.  PHEW!

And although I have a TON of things to do in the next 18 weeks, I am so happy that they are all things I love to do.  I'm happy that I have the opportunity to try some new baking recipes, to sew more, to decorate a room and to hopefully get my business going even more!  And so, when I get asked "Do you miss teaching?", I can with 100% certainty say "NO!", because now I am truly doing what I am meant to do!