Today I’m 4 days “past due” and did mean to update yesterday and the day before … but never got around to it.
I’ve had boughts of contractions off and on the past few days, and am actually having them right now, in the middle of the night as I am awake. They aren’t that bad, but aren’t like BH’s and I do have a high pain thresh hold, so what I say “isn’t that bad” might be pretty bad to some other ladies, FWIW.
I have had hours of contractions ranging from 5 minutes apart to 10 minutes apart or even more, but somewhat consistent at times, but always petering out eventually. Not all of those contractions are as intense, but many are very strong and intense.
I have only been at home since being overdue, so I don’t know what it would be like to be out in a store, for instance, with these contraction boughts.
On the readiness front: we do have stuff to do, mostly I need to print out my sheets of data again, I’ve lost them twice :rolleyes: and then I can check-off what’s done and know what’s needed to get done still. I have the birth stuff I need, just need to get a few more things, like sheets, processed, I think.
The other day we did start getting the master bedroom primed and painted, just part of it thus far. We are using some paint I’d chosen for the boys room and hadn’t yet used. We have paint for another room too, both sets of paint have a light green in them, and it’s the boys room green that will work with the stuff we have gotten and will be getting for baby, Sage green in Classic Pooh, as well as some plain sheets for our bed. The green paint is part of a collection Sea something or other, from Lowes, Olympic paints, we had purchased three colors to do in the boys room. I’m thinking of using two of them in our room now, a nice blue to make some vertical stripes somewhere, not everywhere in the room though, and that green that we hope will be within the sage realm once enough of it is on the walls. We primed the other day, and put on one coat yesterday. It’ll need one more coat, at the least, I am thinking perhaps it needs 3 overall of the green to get the shade right. It looks horrible right now, like when you paint walls red, which I’ve never done, but seen on TV, the first coat is hideous and you need to put on multiple layers to get the right effect of red. This green is deep enough while being light, to need more coats than one.
Hubby and I have done the painting together. It’s just a few minutes of prep to get the paint and rollers out and ready, and then a few more to do the painting, then it’s longer for clean-up. We are doing things in stages just so I can rest, etc. I am the “painter” and hubby doesn’t really like it, so I am greatful for his help doing this, which is something I’d tackle on my own if I had my druthers and weren’t so pregnant.
Our room has needed painting since we moved in, late 1997, but it’s never been empty enough to do the job since (we’ve had a catch-all master bedroom, which I don’t like, but what can you do in a house that isn’t really big enough and seems to shrink more and more over the years?) I also haven’t been sure what to do with color in here, until now. So with getting new flooring in, and having to make room for baby stuff in our room, we do have partial ability to paint one major wall now, and will finish the rest later.
The wall that we are painting is where the crib will go. I’m hoping we can get the painting done there so that I can get the crib put together there soon. We still need the bedding set for the crib, but I do have a sheet to start with and a little baby won’t mind no bumpers the first couple of weeks, and won’t be sleeping in there full-time anyhow.
Once I’ve recovered enough after childbirth, I’m going to tackle getting this room completely painted, as well as the bathroom, and then it’s on to the hallway and the parts of the main living area that are paint-able (since we are in renovations in the kitchen still) and then the hallway downstairs and a few areas there.
So as it goes in getting ready for having a baby, I’ve been in “nesting mode” for the last few days, nearly frantic, but not entirely so, to get certain things done, and not really resting as much as “I should” during the day. I did take a bath yesterday at one point and sunk myself under the water and took a short nap that way, with my face out of the water, but my ears submerged in the water, peaceful watery quiet. 🙂