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.