I tried on my pre-pregnancy jeans today. I have to say, they fit me most fabulously in the butt!! Damn! Of course there is simply NO way I could do up the jeans, not even a little bit… but the zipper part is the only part affected. I’m a little irritated with my maternity jeans, to be honest… they fit me great when I bought them. Then I LOST weight/size, and now they’re hanging off my ass. Especially when I wear the band below my belly like it’s intended to do. Then they’re really hanging down. So. I may have to see if I can find another pair to wear until my butt fills these back out. I mean, these work fine so I don’t want to be spending too much money, but they’re my only pair of pants that I have, other than sweatpants, and it’s a little irritating. I don’t think 2 pairs of maternity pants is too much to ask for.

Oh, PS – the sweats in my belly pics? Those are all pre-pregnancy sweatpants. Well actually the one I wear most often is one I bought when I first got pregnant… it’s a size larger than my normal, and it’s stretchy and fits just fine. I doubt I’ll be able to wear it afterwards though, I’ll have stretched out the elastic. Oh well. Small sacrifice for comfort.

One of my journal buddies on a forum is preparing for her home birth sometime this month. It’s very exciting! And then I realized that I’m halfway through my second trimester. Shit… isn’t there stuff I’m supposed to be doing? I’m just sitting here la la la-ing counting away the weeks. Friends are painting nurseries, ordering cribs, booking birth classes. Wait, what? At the beginning of this pregnancy I was totally way ahead of everyone. I had my wish list almost all set already, we had names picked out, I was this font of knowledge of birthing “stuff” simply because I got bored of reading infertility books all the time. So how did I get so behind here?

Well first of all, we can’t do jack shit on the nursery until the basement gets finished and Den moves his office out of there. Which is, unfortunately, nothing that I can help with. The men folk need to do all the framing and hanging sheet-rock, none of which I could do even were I not pregnant. Unfortunately, the men-folk keep cancelling their plans to come over and work on it. I am starting to get a wee bit antsy. We have a lot to do, and now it’s mid-winter. I was really hoping the major stuff would be done by now so we wouldn’t have to worry about… you know… SNOW.

We also have half a thought to tear down the panelling from our bedroom and paint… since we’re going to be spending a lot of time in here (and Devin will be sleeping in here for around 6 months), it’s probably a better idea to spend time working on this than the nursery. However, the logistics start creating issues. Like, how are we going to paint our bedroom in the middle of winter without me having major issues with the vapors? Not like we can just throw open our windows. And this is going to be an issue until it warms up in the spring. And even if Den does the painting in here, I still HAVE to sleep on this bed. We could possibly move it into the other bedroom… It would be interesting, to say the least. I think the bed would be the ONLY thing that would fit in that room. (It’s a king. The room… is small.) We might just have to do that though. I don’t see any other way to tear apart this room, take down wallpaper, and repaint without putting my beloved mattress at risk. But we can’t do that, again, until the basement is done and Den’s stuff is moved out. Everything centers on getting that damn basement done. I am irritated.

So anyways, back to my original point. Other things to do? Well I have a bunch of books to buy and read. For christmas I have asked for gift cards to book stores so I can purchase them (since I am not going to rely on family to get me the correct books!). Hopefully I’ll be able to get some of them that way! (I am no longer going to be using the library for books. Loaned books and I have some serious issues, involving astronomical late fees. Not good, not good at all. It’s cheaper for me to buy the damn things!)

I still need to send the deposit in for our childbirth classes – I totally forgot about it. Whoops!! So I emailed the lady tonight asking if there’s still space available. Hopefully I’ll get that sorted out shortly and we should be set to start in January. January, people. Soon as we get back from Christmas vacation we’ll be starting freaking childbirth classes. Holy crap.

I’m also poking around LLL Massachusetts to find a local group. Several friends have highly recommended going before baby is born, so I wanted to find out what’s available. Not sure when I’ll start going, but probably Jan/Feb timeframe. They all tend to meet once a month. LLL also have a yearly conference in this state, but, ummm, it’s at the end of March. Very bad timing for me. I don’t think I’ll be going anywhere a week before my due date. (It’s in the state, but the other side of the state… an hour and a half drive.)

Why do I always get these flashes of inspiration/motivation in the middle of the night? Sigh.