Eleven things I'm thinking about today

1. The kids have six and one half days of school left, including today. Next Friday can't come soon enough for all of us. We are a tad excited.


2. The ultrasound to find out if this baby is a boy or a girl is Monday morning. Yes, I know that is only four days away, but I want it to be now. (Sensing an impatience theme yet? Oh I'm not done yet.)


3. The weather this week has been nice. I mean more than tolerable. I'm a kinder, happier, more patient person when it is not scorching hot with 462% humidity. It's a fact.


4. I am eighteen weeks along tomorrow. And I still only own one maternity piece of clothing. I got rid of all of it after a diagnosis last year told us we wouldn't be having more children. (Yeah for doctors being wrong!) I've needed maternity clothes for two or three weeks now. And yes, I can afford them. I'm just cheap and lazy. And this Bruins t-shirt I'm currently wearing (super appropriate today though, yes?) is so stylish, why bother? And no, they don't make Bruins maternity wear, so picture that one, people.


5. I want my whole house to be over-the-top organized (every room, every closet, every everything) by July 6th. I'm on my way, but some things have to wait to be done for another couple of weeks and also, I'm trying to do it carefully and slowly due to wanting not to be having contractions at eighteen weeks. Which I've already been having for a while now. That isn't something unusual in my pregnancies, but it always makes me uneasy and I have a rest a lot. I just want to do it all now. (Sound familiar?)


6. Because I'm taking things slow and have to wait on some areas, my basement (organization central) looks like something out of Clean House (at least to me, apparently others living here don't agree). Boo for my basement. I can't even think about it without twitching involuntarily. But come over on July 6th and bask in the glory. And take a gander at the rest of the house if you'd like. It is going to be beautimous, believe you me.


7. The kids' school books are almost completely organized and up to date. I don't know why I haven't worked on it the past couple of years, but now that they are nearly finished (just need to order a few 8x10s of important school events), I am SO happy. They look incredible and orderly if I do say so myself.


8. I'm nearing the end of being a room parent for all three kids and while I have loved it, I will be glad to have a break. Just one more craft activity, two more field trips, gift cards for all three teachers (I've been the official money gatherer and gift card buyer for each class), and small gifts for the art teacher, PE teacher, health teacher, office staff, librarian, bus drivers, etc. and we are set. It seemed like less to do before I wrote it down.


9. I'm so happy Sunday is Father's Day. I'm so grateful for the incredible examples I have in my life of amazing fathers—my dad, Jacob's dad, our grandpas—but mostly the man I married. Being a dad matters to him almost more than anything on this earth. And our kids know it. And it has made them who they are and will continue to bless their lives forever. I don't know what I would do without Jacob. And I'm so grateful I don't ever have to find out.


10. My sister and her family are coming to visit in a few weeks and I am so excited! I'd mention again that I want it to be sooner and I'm impatient, but actually, I'll be good on this one, because the anticipation is also too much fun. We are all so happy they are coming!


11. I am so blessed. The simplicity and calm of our life of late (even amid this busy time of the year) makes me grateful. We have so many wonderful things coming up in the next two months, I just can't get over it. And yet, along with it all, we have so much time to be together as a family and laugh and talk and just enjoy everything.
    
    Life. Is. Wonderful.