i’m over it!  over it!  over it!  i suppose it could get way worse, but i woke up this morning for the first time not wanting to go to the couch to relax all day.  it’s been a week, and it’s been so nice.  i think i needed a week of r & r.  i even told jeff last night before bed that i was kind of bummed at all the bed rest because i’m not the most natural house keeper, etc. but i’ve set up some decent habits over the past 6 months are they’re all going to go to pot by the time i’m done with this since i LOVE not having to do anything.  but i woke up this morning wanting to do something that requires some effort.  i was going to say i want to do some laundry, but that’s not true yet : ).  i just want to get up and bake or actually go to a store and get a christmas present.  i keep sending my mom out to pick up little odds and ends.  i think it’s probably nice to get out of the house!

 i shopped all day yesterday, it just happened to be online.  today it’ll probably be christmas crafts all day.  that’s been most of my week thus far.  not too many movies yet and i’m not into my book, but i really want to finish it, so it just means i find other things to do than read.  i need to finish my christmas cards and send them out.  has anyone else gotten cards this year?  we’ve only received 3!  usually by this time our door is filled with them (we tape them all to a door in our living room)  i’m chalking it up to the economy and not the fact that we have no more friends : ).  of course i haven’t sent ours either, so what am i talking about?  someone send us a card!  other than that, i’m working on an advent calendar.  you know, the kind that is supposed to be done by december FIRST, but of course isn’t.  it’s one of those sequiny kind like the stockings we had as kids.  it’s really cute.  just not done.  and i’m making these SUPER CUTE little letter magnets.  i stole the idea from anthropologie last year.  have you ever been to etsy.com?  COOL website.  it’s where people can buy and sell homemade things – kinda like these magnets.  anyway, check it out.  you can find anything there.  

anyway, enough blabbing.  gotta go REST!  6 more weeks.  ugh.  we’re on day 8 of 50.  it’s going by fast, that’s for sure.  my back is just tired from not stretching and exercising.  i need to go run around.  as for baby, she is basically asleep for a day and then awake the whole next day.  today is an awake day.  she’s her own little roller coaster.  she’s incubating well!  that’s what this is for, right?