fresh outlook

So me and my crappy attitude went for a great walk today and man don't we feel better! Nothing can soothe the soul better than a little sunshine and exercise. Yes please Mama Nature!

Anyway, so I've done a few things these past few weeks that I'm particularly proud of:

1. After our bumps and bowling balls shower I was sent home with a half of a sheet cake. Now anyone who knows me knows I love sheet cake...total sucker. But uh uh, this good girl kindly asked her husband to throw that shit down the garbage because a)I wasn't sure I could actually do it myself and b)that cake was up to NO GOOD.

2. Baby clothes and baby gifts are organized! Now this is something I would have never fathomed writing about for the sheer boringness of that statement. But now that I'm here, 37 weeks pregnant, swimming in seas of onesies, sleepers, boppies, snuggies, swaddlers, layettes (yes I actually know what all of those things are now) I was finally able to work my way through the pink madness and assign a little organization. (note to any future moms: if you're going to have a baby girl, and you DON"T like pink, then keep the sex to yourself. Fortunately, I do)

3. Mama got a nice little checky-poo from the accident a few weeks ago and instead of going out and buying the CAMERA I want so bad, I did two of the most boring things in the world.. paid off a credit card and saved it.

4. I absolutely positively suck at thank you cards, yet I managed to sit myself down one (entire) afternoon and bust through all of the wonderful people I needed to thank. This brings me great pride because it (shamedly) may actually be the first time I have accomplished completion in Hallmark gratitude world. Note to anyone that I might buy something for: do not send me a thank you card. I really mean that. My neighbor Betsy said her thank you for her baby gift perfectly....she baked me a cake! Good Lord I love cake! (your baked good is coming sister!)

5. I'm just about 37 weeks pregnant and my belly is getting bigger. and bigger. and bigger. Honestly I had no idea it was going to do this (to this extent). It's mystifying. My maternity shirts are turning into midriff shirts! So sexy. Anyway I'm proud of myself for doing this. Pregnancy was really easy...until then all of the sudden it wasn't. But the show goes on, and the baby grows, and the end there will really be something I'm proud of...

....my baby!