Baby Watch 2012, Utah Edition
I had a brilliantly un-original title all prepared for this month. Then it became 10% more original when I remembered there is a Baby Watch going on with my sister and husband in Boston also, allowing me to dub this the “Utah Edition”. A couple weeks ago Misty and Steph were able to compare baby bumps one last time when Misty and Curtis came to visit for a few days. Since it is an election year influencing the babies, we will see if the babies end up voting along state party lines in future years. My money is on the Green Party for one of them…
To answer the most pressing question on everyone’s mind: No baby yet. (March 13th, 8:35pm). Steph is working on proving the medical “experts” wrong on their guess for the day the baby will come. She is not very excited about proving them more and more incorrect with each passing day. I am torn about the difference in dates. With each day that passes and I continue to clock in at work, I save vacation days for later in the year. (I have my paternity leave time scheduled for set days right now, anything earlier will come out of vacation/sick days). However each day Steph is home waiting, she continues to start small projects that add to my “honey do” list. For example, she rakes up the loose leaves in the yard, but can’t bend well enough to get them in the yard waste container. So I come home from work and spend my remaining daylight hours completing those tasks.
So far, Steph has cleaned out every flower bed in the yard. Cleaned and prepared the pond area, and moved the fish back into the pond. This included scrubbing algae off the seashells in the bottom, and bucketing out 5 gallon pails of water. I didn’t even know there were seashells in the bottom! We have filled not only our yard waste container, but Steph went and borrowed a neighbor’s as well. Everything that can be planted in the vegetable garden prior to May is planted. What cannot be planted yet, has been started from seed under the grow lights in the basement. The freezer is pretty well filled with meals that were previously prepared. The laundry is caught up daily. At this point, we are pretty much ready for the chaos of a baby (we think)…or large scale societal meltdown, whichever occurs first.
We did get some tomatoes started from seed again this year. If anyone local wants some, let me know by early April. “Water Tomatoes” is on the list of items to do before heading to the hospital. Right next to “Feed and Water Cat”. Some things can be ignored for 3-4 days. Those are not things that can be ignored that long. (“Take yard waste container out to the street” comes to mind also…)
And we wait…