36 weeks, 6 days.

Went to my appointment yesterday. Not the same kind of bleeding as before (back in January from vaginal activities), which I had kinda (sadly) assumed was the case. My plug's out! As of yesterday, I was 80% effaced, 1cm dilated, and she was at -2 station. We're on our waaaay. Dr. Rafi said that it could always, of course, just stay like that and take a while but her professional opinion is that I will, indeed, go early. She asked me to try my best to stay pregnant until at least Thursday so I'd be 37 weeks and full term when she saw how excited I was, heh. I'm scheduled to see her again on Tuesday and she said she expects to see me then, but not to be surprised if things start happening in the next week to 10 days.

Gotta get stuff DONE!

36 weeks, 5 days.

23 days to go. Twenty-three. That's so nuts.

Today starts the weekly OB appointments. At least it should if Dr. Rafi doesn't screw me over like she's been known to do. This past weekend, I was having some major contractions (they felt different than the ones I've had before that were obvious Braxton Hicks contractions) and then Sunday afternoon I started getting a brown, mucousy discharge. (Sorry, but it's true.) I'm definitely glad I was already scheduled for an appointment this morning. John and I are betting she comes early. I'd love to still have a couple of weeks, but we're thinking we won't make it out of June. (Okay, so maybe we're hoping, but it still would be our luck.)

Dresser is FINALLY done. John finished staining it last night. Just have to clean it off and out and bring it up to the nursery. Then I can finally start putting stuff away. I did all the laundry and it's folded and waiting in a basket for it's proper place. Apparently Billy is going to be his normal self and not get the armoire up here until after the 26th. I'm going to have a nervous breakdown in the meantime, but whateverrrr. I think we're going to hit Rockville one more time this weekend so I can take something back to Buy Buy Baby (and make a last run through, of course) and get all my anal organizational/storage stuff at The Container Store. Then I'll have everything away in her room and the bathroom (did that last week) and all that'll be left to do is install the carseat (I have to wait until I stop working so I can get the girls' carseats out of there) and get all the carseat related stuff out of here, find a place in the kitchen for all the kitchen stuff, and find something to do with all the extra other stuff. Oh, and find something pretty for her walls. OH! And get the curtains up. And find a nightstand and lamp. And maybe a rug, but that may have to wait until we can afford it. And then I'll be done. Ahh, I have so much to do. Why am I still on here?

Back after my appointment, I suppose.

34 weeks, 4 days.

It's June today! I can officially say our baby will be here next month. How crazy is that?

Shower was actually kinda fun. Still a lot of people missing that I would have rather had there, but it turned out to be a good day. The weather stayed beautiful, everyone who did come was great, the house looked so pretty, the cake was (unfathomably) enormous but good... Got some good stuff. Still need so much, of course, because everyone loves to give you the cute stuff versus the practical stuff, but we got some money and gift cards that can go towards it as well as a few things we're going to return. Plus there are still people who couldn't make it that I know will send gifts so perhaps they'll knock a few more things off of the registry. Honestly, I can't wait to go shop now that it's all said and done. We've got 38 days till my due date (I seriously CANNOT wrap my mind around that. It sounds so much shorter than 5 1/2 weeks.) and I'm in full-blown "Let's get this DONE!" mode.

Today also starts my last four weeks of work. Only three more Mondays to go after this. I'm really nervous about it from a financial standpoint, but otherwise, I'm so ready. I burnt out on this job a long time ago and it's time to say goodbye. Now to get through the next four weeks. It's not going to as easy as I'd like... It's actually the worst time of year I could be doing this. Storytime ended for the season last week, so we don't have a planned activity for Wednesdays anymore. Summer programs at the library will be starting up this month, but most of the dates are in July. I am really happy though that we'll get to do Stevens Puppets one more time before I'm done. The girls love that. Also, next Wednesday is Sonja's last day of school, so I'll have all three of them with nothing to do. She makes things so much more difficult. Then there's the heat. I've handled this pregnancy amazingly well so far--I really haven't had a hard time with anything--until the heat. And with all three girls and all their friends out for the summer, they'll want to be outside all the time. I physically can't handle it sometimes. And last, but not least, this Friday Miranda goes in for her surgery. That means Juliana and Ian will both be off from work Friday through at least Tuesday, in my way and making things extremely hard and uncomfortable.

Sigh. Oh well. Twelve days to go. Twelve days to go. (Official work days, I mean.) I'm just going to keep counting them down and knocking them out and looking forward to the crazy summer ahead of me. It's going to be amazing.