I think now that I'm only 6 weeks and 3 days away from my due date (not that I'm counting) I can officially say I'm nesting.  Really I've been hard at it for weeks now.  There is just nothing like a new baby on the way to make you want to do all those things you should have done long ago.  Some things are things that I let go out of laziness and now I'm regretting that decision, big time.  Other things are home improvement projects that I just needed a good excuse to get started and finished (yes, I'm good about the starting but now so good about the finishing).  And yet other things are those things you only do when you have a sweet little one on the way; washing, folding, and putting away the tiny little clothes the baby will wear, cleaning the car seat, the baby bathtub, finding the sling that works best  with a newborn and researching the best diaper yet again.

     As I look forward to the weekend I am starting to formulate a plan for what needs to get done.  I want to finish the laundry room completely.  I am loving the new look, freshly painted white walls with burgundy cupboards and a lovely border that shows the wash being hug out on the line to dry.  I need to fix a couple of places I missed painting, pull couple of more pieces of trim off and hang the rest of the border.  I also need to go buy new trim because many of the old pieces didn't come off well and were broken.  They need to be painted and hung.  I need to clean the whole room and really mop the floor (we use the laundry room as our entry way and the floor is almost always dirty) ,

     I would also like to finish our bathroom, the one that was supposed to be finished before Jubilee was born.  I need to put up the trim, paint the cupboard doors and a few other places because I ran out of paint.  I am so glad our floor is in though and it looks amazing!  I'm glad for a new (white!) toilette too.  I need to ask Mike to repair the shower floor because it's cracked and I would like to have a shower in our bathroom.

     I had grand plans of having our room painted before the baby arrived but now that time is running out I doubt that will happen.  I don't really want to plaster all the walls and mostly I don't want all the dust that I will end up with when I sand them back down.  I don't want to have to rewash the baby clothes and dust our room for the next two weeks just so I can feel okay birthing a baby in there.  I don't think we have enough money to buy the paint for our room right now anyway so this may be a hidden blessing even though I still cringe at the idea of having paneled walls.

     The weather is starting to cool off here and the rains are starting to return, perfect weather for birthing my little one.  Just last night I lay in bed listening to the soft pitter patter of the refreshing drops on the house.  It was so refreshing and it felt so right.  I used the time to pray and thank the Lord for all the pervious blessings he has given me.  I prayed about the upcoming labor and the transition time, I will have seven people to be responsible for now and that's huge.  As I lay there I enjoyed the little one kicking the hiccoughing inside, it was just perfect.  I could hear Jubilee and Mike breathing and the rain falling, I couldn't have asked for anything better.

     I was looking though pictures of my other babies and their births on Monday night so I will leave you with a picture of my other October baby, Hosanna.  She is going to be attending this baby's birth and is super excited.  She is a great sister and so eager to help with the new baby.