Week in the Life--Thursday

*Don't judge my crazy. I didn't get any pictures taken today, as you'll soon read why, so I'm adding in some random happy pictures. :)

This morning I had my (rescheduled) 36 week doctor appointment. Baby is doing great, her heartbeat was in the 140's. I asked my doctor if he could tell around how much she was weighing, how big she was. He says "average". Lol. He thinks she'll be in the 7 pound range. We will see.

I was also telling my doctor that I am a bit concerned about the timing of her arrival. Due to new hospital rules, the earliest he can induce me is one week prior to due date, which puts me at August 2. Tahner has a math seminar the week of August 1-5. He gets paid a really good amount of money, so I really don't want him to miss that. He said that he is going to check me next week to see how my cervix is looking. Hoping that I've made some progress! I also had my doctor check out my ankle because yesterday afternoon it suddenly started hurting terribly. I didn't do anything to it, but it started when I reached down in the car to get my purse off of the floor. He felt around and said that he thought I'd just strained a ligament.

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I may or may not have threatened Tahner before I left for my appointment. I warned him that I would be super, super mad if they were still in bed asleep, and/or not up and showered when I got home. Thankfully (for him) they were up and around. :)

We headed out in two cars, hoping to drop our van off at a local auto body shop. The side panel on our van has been coming off for awhile now, and every time that we open the door we have to push the panel in. NOT fun. And, equally horrible, is that we cannot take the van to the car wash/detail place with the panel like that. I want to get it fixed asap so the car can be detailed before baby comes. The guy looked up the two panels that need to be replaced. One costs $215 plus painting, which puts us at like $325. The second piece, they no longer make for our model. So he's looking around to find one somewhere. Not gonna be cheap, unfortunately.

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We headed nearby to Jack-in-the-Box for lunch. Yes, in case you're keeping track, we basically eat out every single day during the summer. Especially now with me being so hugely pregnant. I was growing really grumpy at lunch. The girls were going back and forth with their "Yes", "No" bit that they've been doing lately. Really, just every little thing was bothering me for some reason. M-a-j-o-r grumpy.

After lunch Tahner took the girls and I had a chiropractic appointment. Of course I'm in a lot of pain. I am 36 weeks pregnant, after all, with a big belly and lots of extra weight. But I knew that something was off. My pelvis hurt so bad that it was almost absolutely unbearable. Especially at night. I cannot even tell you how painful it is. So, he adjusted me, and said that my pelvis was, indeed, off. I always say I feel off my rocker. I had him look at my ankle, because I knew something was wrong. Turns out, one of the ligaments was completely out of place. When it should have been down, it was way up higher. It literally almost brought me to tears while he worked on it. People probably thought I was going into labor with all the painful noises I was making. He said that my arch was actually caving, due to my weight and lack of support with only wearing flip flops. That's gotta make you feel good. :) So, he wrapped it up for support and I have to get some better shoes. In the mean time, it hurts like a mother.

When I got home, I'd hoped and prayed that I'd be surprised with a clean kitchen, picked up house, or something. Tahner had felt bad for me at lunch because he knew I was overwhelmed. Instead, I found absolutely nothing done, and everyone being completely lazy. I hate to admit that I just about lost it. I went straight to the kitchen and started banging around, putting things away, doing dishes, etc. It didn't matter that it was cleaned last night....the entire thing was a disaster. From there, I went straight out to the car and started loading up stuff for our church yard sale. We had some left overs from our last yard sale sitting around waiting to be sold on Craigslist. Since that hasn't happened, I loaded it all up. Tahner came out and started helping me, probably thinking I'd gone mad. I kind of had.

You see, for me, nesting is this overwhelming NEED to do the things I want done, even if they are super unrealistic. So anyway, after filling up the car, Tahner headed to drop it off at the church. I continued on my mission, throwing away a couple things in the back yard, taking the shovel to weeds, etc. I had to come in and cool off immediately. I stripped and wiped down with a cold washcloth, and then sat under the fan in our room. I drank tons of water and sat while I cooled down.

Once cooled off, I decided to start cleaning our closet. Tahner took the girls to worship practice at church (he runs the sound & computer) and I stayed home. I went through boxes of old clothes, weeding out some that I knew I would never wear. I made a massive pile for the yard sale, and I must say, it felt really good. It felt good to get rid of so much 'stuff' that was making me feel cluttered. The stuff outside, and the stuff inside. Our closet is so nice and tidy, and there is so much extra space. To help me cool off (and regain my sanity) I watched a few episodes of Pregnant in Heels. I love that show, and it helped me to not feel so bad, watching all of those crazy pregnant women. I'm not that bad. :)

We got so much stuff done this evening too. Cleaning, organizing, filling up the van with more yard sale stuff. I made everyone sloppy joes for dinner, but ended up eating yogurt and granola myself. I already had indigestion from lunch and sloppy joes are out of the question for me right now. It was just something quick and easy I could make for everyone. Tahner went out and watered the yard (we have to water by hand until we get our sprinklers fixed). After dinner, I did a few more things, cleaning in the girls' bathroom and some laundry.

I know, I'm crazy. My hormones are crazy. My need to nest is crazy. I am just crazy.

We finally sat down to (re)watch the last Harry Potter. (Harry Potter 7: The Deathly Hallows, Part 1.) We haven't seen it since the theater and wanted to watch it again since we will hopefully go to see it tomorrow afternoon.

I'm trying to just rest and relax now. My brain has been running with all of the things that I still want done, but thankfully blogging and watching this is helping me to get settled. When it's over, I'll go take my medicine, and half of a Tylenol PM (which has become my night cap) and tomorrow I will probably get up and do it all over again. Hopefully I didn't undo all of the work from my chiropractor, and I can get a good night's sleep.

♥ Amber