The Daily Hailey

Its official! I am 41 weeks along today and can really, truly say that I can feel the prayers. I feel such peace, and so little anxiety. God is good. I thoroughly enjoyed today.

Dekker woke up unnaturally early, which wasn’t ideal but was ok. He got up and had breakfast with me, like usual. I’ve been struggling to eat in the mornings, but now that I need to take iron and I need to take it with food, it forces me to eat a little something. Which is good all around. However, I didn’t know what to eat and for the first time in years, I opted for a bowl of cereal. I hate cereal. But it worked anyway. Once we were both done our food, we went downstairs to play toys.

We really ran with our normal weekday routine, since Brady worked today. He is now solidly caught up, which we are both super relieved about. While he worked, we played toys and watched “Moving Up” on TLC. I was so happy that my plans for the day worked out, and my mom came over for the afternoon! I didn’t have to have another day like yesterday where I twiddled my thumbs and waited for the sun to go down. I had company! She brought watermelon and we had it with grilled cheese for lunch. Dekker went down for a nap pretty quickly after that, and I opted to rest my ribs. I lay on the couch and my mom asked if she could do a few jobs. I’m not very good at letting people help me all the time, but I decided to let it happen. And did it ever! My mom tidied up my living room and did my dishes. We then moved to my bedroom and went through the hospital and overnight bags to see what was all in them, what was no longer in them, and what still needed to be added to them. We listed. We made a plan for if we called them in the day, or the night, and whether they’d come here or we’d bring Dekker to them. I feel sooo much more organized going into the next day or two! After all of that work, my mom opted to make us dinner. It was ready on the stove in no time, and just needed to be quickly reheated when Brady arrived. We spent a good few minutes feeling baby girl move around and talking to her before my mom headed home to take care of her own house, meals, and plans for the day.

I felt very housewifey when Brady came home to food on the table. I pretty much bullied him into eating immediately because it was all ready and I felt so put together, even though I had created not one part of the meal! I even used the leftover noodles from the fridge instead of making fresh ones. But hey, its not cheating! They would have gone bad had I not used them! But we also had corn on the cob from our own garden!!! It was exciting after last years complete flop of a garden to have fresh, edible veggies!

We spent the last chunk of the evening bathing Dekker. He played and had a great time once he got over the initial devastation of actually being in the tub. I think he cried harder when we pulled him out. But hey, I’d rather it that way than the screaming bloody murder the entire time we’re in there. I’m hoping he might be more interested when there’s another small person in his bathtub.

Baby boy is down for night, Brady and I just had showers, and I think we’re still going to hop in the tub before the night is over. We need to get to bed at a decent time, since we never know when baby girl is going to come and we want to be as rested as possible! I am truly so excited for this family of three to be a family of four, with all four on the outside!!! Hopefully tomorrow! Or the next day. Or any day. I’ll take her. I am so ready. Anyone else?