Oh, the list-making! The hunting and gathering! The painting and purchasing, imagining and expanding, reading and remodeling. Prior to the arrival of baby we have been:
- working our jobs at Midwest Disability and the University of Minnesota
- Nick's first class in Hamline's business school (to start the MBA)
- Teresa's last class in the Center for Spirituality and Healing (to finish the graduate minor), and a statistics class from the Humphrey School
- prenatal yoga at Blooma
- meeting midwives and doctors and doulas
- attending classes at the Childbirth Collective
- arranging diaper service
- touring hospitals and birth centers
- pondering names for this being who will enter our world
- writing thank-you letters in response to incredible generosity
- cooking to pre-stock our freezer for a busy summer
- weeding and lawn care in this early spring bloom
- cleaning out the garden beds in preparation for seed-planting
- washing baby clothes and diapers
- remodeling the upstairs 'swan bathroom' with new vanity and cabinets
- painting and setting up the baby room with crib, dressers, wall decorations
- moving our bedroom from the first floor to the second, across the hall from the baby room
- dreaming, reading and journaling
- quieting
As I write this, I am a few days from the "guess date" (due date), so the baby could come anytime... tomorrow or two weeks from now.
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