can time go any slower?

welcome to my weekend.

i absolutely hate weekends when rob is gone. i can feel each second passing and each one is more and more painful. most people love weekends, they tidy up the house or spend lots of quality time with their friends and family. well, my house is tidy enough for my low standards and i'm about up to here with quality time with my own family.

i believe we're down to 11 days til rob gets back. honestly though it feels like forever...i have today (sunday) and then another weekend to go through, and (bonus!) a 4th of july to survive. i should plan some fun outing on the 4th, after all, i'll have a husband to put up with again soon. but i'm to the point in this pregnancy where i just feel like hiding indoors where it's cooler, less humid, and fewer neighbors to see my underwear when i bend over.

i do have a few things i'd like to do...
1. make a poster for rob...i have a cheapy 'welcome home' banner but i want to find some paper rolls and write 'daddy' on there. if it's not raining we might even hang it over the front door. although the thought of me balanced on a stepstool on the front step would just give the neighbors something to laugh themselves silly over. maybe we'll just get 2 sheets of posterboard and staple them together. probably cheaper.
2. go to the furniture store...i want to buy a recliner to put on our main level. i remember coming home from the hospital with cade, that first night all i wanted was a recliner to relax in. our sofa and overstuffed chair were too upright (my poor nether-regions :( ) and i wanted to put my swollen feet up. i wasn't ready to share a bed with rob AND cade yet, so i held cade most of the night...waking up at his every little twitch and sometimes just waking myself up b/c i was sure i had let go of him as i slept. and now that i think of it, my first night with reese was similar. rob had the bed b/c he had to work the next day so i took reese out to the sofa and we cuddled (? worried?) all night. neither of these nights resulted in much sleep for me, so i think a $600+ recliner would maybe allow me to drift off in comfort. and i need to buy another dresser. reese will be sharing a room with the baby and cade will be in a room by himself. the new dresser will be for reese, hopefully i can find something that goes with whatever headboard we might buy her in the future.
3. pick out new bedding for our bed. the cat threw up on our quilt and i have been unable to get the stains out. arg. plus our sheets have faded here & there from some strange facial creams that i used in the past. i can't believe i was putting something on my face that bleached the color of my sheets...i think it might have been the clearasil a few years ago. the sheets were a lilac color, matching some little flowers on the quilt. i'd love to find something similar, but i've kind of fallen in love with this minty teal color that i'm suddenly seeing everywhere. unfortunately, i'm seeing it in the LUXURY section of the bedding...i'm not paying $200 for a comforter and 2 shams. sorry folks. good thing it's summer and we don't need a quilt yet anyway. i doubt i'll be wearing clothes to bed here in a few weeks, that cool breeze from the ceiling fan feels pretty good on a fat belly.
4. edit some stuffed animal toys. reese has a big laundry basket in her closet full of stuffed animals. there's another box on the main level of stuffed animals. she plays with about 10-15 of them on a regular basis. so i'm thiking it might be safe to get rid of some? i mean, we have a dog & a cat in the house, do we really need these stuffed animals at all???


i've also added 'find a baby name' to my unofficial list of things to do. we have the 35,000 baby names book, and i've added it to my bedtime reading. i'm only to the Cs (i started this quest last night...rob is usually the vetoer for my names so i better have a long list ready) but i already really like 'ashlin.' does that sound like a boy's name? maybe i'm thinking ashton for a boy's name...but honestly, we have a girl named reese and a boy named cade, do we care? maybe we should name this girl william or michael and just dare people to look at us funny.

so, add ashlin, belinda, and brenna to my list. not sure about belinda...i have a cousin belinda but last night at 11pm, it sounded pretty.


***holy crap, i forgot another thing to add to the list...baby announcements! i still like to send out announcements to friends and family when babies are born. that way it's not MY fault that they don't know my kids' names at family reunions. it's their own fault for not reading the baby announcement! one of my cousins has 7 kids but truthfully, i only knew about 2 or 3 of their births. those were the kids that were born when my grandma was alive and grandma was the family phone tree caller. anyway, postage is 39 cents but i will be sending out announcements. there's more hope of presents then ;)