Okay

I got some things done today. Got the nursery set, I think, which relieved a load of strain on the back of my brain. Just have to find a way to get the mirror rotated on the wall… it doesn’t seem to have hooks for a vertical mounting, though it seems to have the hooks on both the top and the bottom for a horizontal mounting. So, that’s not helpful. However, my husband’s brief comment on it made it seem like a very doable thing. So, hoping for an easy process there. Hopefully, I can purchase and attach the part or parts tomorrow.

Also got some other things started in the newly-made office/guest room. We had basically piled all the extra stuff in there (and by “we”, I knew the royal “we”, of course), so it is all contained in one space to be sorted. And I feel like I made some positive strides with that stuff today. Not massive results, but it created the space for further progress tomorrow, for sure.

Of course, I’m going to be for a good chunk of tomorrow, much like today. So, I’ll just have to do as I did today and get a bit done in the morning, then the majority done before bed at night….

But yeah… that was a not-awesome discovery last night, that I would be gone most of today and most of tomorrow. Both days on which I really need to be getting things done at home. Especially since my mom and her friend are coming Wednesday basically to set up everything for the party, serving dishes and decorations and all but the food itself. And I think she said today that they’re coming around 10:30am, which is usually only an hour and a half after I’m actually functional for the day (which excludes eating time, of course). So, I won’t exactly have loads I can accomplish Wednesday morning. Perhaps I simply will be up quite late tomorrow night, working through the exhaustion just to get it all done. Again, it is a doable task now, getting everything tidy enough for how I want it for the party. But it is definitely still a lot. And I am pregnant and exhausted to start the day, let alone do loads of housework-esque stuff all evening.

But I did put together the cute wooden airplane rocker that my brother got for the baby to use. It really is cute. I’m thinking of adding our own tail number to it at some point… personalize it and all. It’s meant to be an adorable decorative piece for the shower, and I believe it now will succeed, given it’s no longer in a cardboard delivery box by the door…

I also cleaned out the backseat of my car for the most part, because I had tot ale people to the airport this morning. So, I now need to deal with that stuff that is sitting in the dining room (and the give-away stuff in there already). But I do feel relief not having my car so loaded anymore. Truly. It’s been a wild time these past several months, to be sure. I needed this easing of car clutter. I don’t usually let it get so bad in the first place, let alone have it stay for months. That’s how rough it has been since I got my car back from the repair shop a few months ago.

Anyway… so, yeah… stuff to do tomorrow. But I can do it! And I shall.

I also have already mentally thrown together options of how to throw things temporarily into our room and just roll with it on Saturday. I’m hoping it only will be the laundry and the random baby things we normally would keep in the living room but that need to move in order to make space for people. We shall see. Tomorrow determines much(!).

Goodnight.

God, help me to do well, please. Guide me in your will for me. Make me and the baby and my husband well, please, and keep us safe. Thank you for this life and this brain and body. Thank you for my husband. In your name, I pray. Amen.

Post-a-day 2024