...Though I’m looking forward to the time when I’m allowed to start phone conversations with something other than ‘no, not yet.’ Progress, of a sort, is being made. We were out having Mexican food and Jess felt a few contractions. Nothing harmonically stable, in the vein of actual labor, but it’s a step. I’m convinced, of course, that it was because she tried my spicy fish. Tyler doesn’t feel like coming out: what is there out here to offer him? But then, mom tries spicy fish and suddenly Tyler isn’t resting as comfortably anymore. Hmm...
Last-minute tasks continue to get knocked off the ‘to do’ list. I tend to forget that even after Tyler shows up I will have time to do things...just less of it. Still, whatever motivates, yes? We went shopping at Costco Wednesday, thinking this time about shopping like people with an empty freezer. We didn’t go totally bonkers. As nice as some of the deals are, they don’t *all* freeze, and some weren’t actually that great of a deal. We actually wrote down some numbers for comparison to what we’d get at our regular supermarket. Boring? Perhaps, but *numbers*. Also, I’ve become slightly paranoid about money ever since we learned about the termites.
So we’ve moved some food into our freezer, freeing up a BUNCH of space, and with the rest of my free time this afternoon I did some ‘gardening’. Not much, mind, just a little maintenance. I trimmed up the (hugely overgrown) rose bush and a few others, got some weeds out of our flower beds, did some raking, and planted some more buffalo grass on some bald spots on the lawn. We also make a stop by the local plant-store on the way home from Mexican food, picked up some compost and a few plants, both flowering and a few herbal. I’ve now got some rosemary, cilantro (never seem to have it when I want it), basil, thyme, and lavender, just for fun. Herb garden ahoy!
I am slightly perturbed that the lawn people decided, instead of actually mowing our lawn and hauling off the clippings, to just push our fall leaves off to the sides and under trees where there is little grass to begin with. I guess it might compost eventually, but that’s not good lawn care. My white whine knows no bounds!
I do my best to talk about things besides babies, but man, am I excited to be a dad.
-N
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I'm excited for you guys to be parents too. Keep telling us about the baby! I don't have as many ppl here who want to talk to me about my unborn nephew, so I REALLY want to talk with you about him. Like, how much hair do you think he'll have by the time he gets born? Will he be a giant? I can't wait to find out!
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