this day last year

we were with the rellys in Maine. I miss everyone today. I don't think I can make the drive this year! Especially not now.

5 weeks ago I said getting down to 5 weeks sounded good. Well, that'll be day after tomorrow. And it's still not enough. It's been a bad week with fever, sore throat, coughing, contractions that kept me up, etc. I'm really ready to be on the other side of this. The children mostly had this fever thing and they had 2 days. Not me. It isn't quite fair to deal with all the end of pregnancy stuff and this too! Yep, I am whining.

Lucien had to work today. My big guys helped me do some deep cleaning I wanted done before baby. Too bad it wasn't really 'written' on the list--I did actually find my old to-do list and had a great time crossing stuff off! I'm so weird.

Zeke turned 16 yesterday! We got him more books for his small collection. Odd to think of him moving out one day and taking them with him, but I know it will happen! Tried to get him mostly hardcovers but a couple he asked for were outrageous in hardcover! Great books tho.

The garden is somewhat planted. It's been so wet that it's hard to get the rest done. Hopefully, this week.

The cloth diapers I ordered are waiting at the P.O. so I'll be able to launder those and baby clothes this week and prepare all that. I'm starting to allow myself to imagine it all. Some friends have had baby girls lately and it makes me so anxious to see who this person is! Who she looks like. I get weepy.