MY FIRST POST! HOW EXCITING!

     I have been having a difficult time thinking of what to write for my first post. There is just so much that has been going on in our family for the past couple months that I truly don't know where to start. With the excitement of buying our first home, to having our second baby, there is just so much going on around here. But I need to start somewhere I suppose.

   

     With my due date only two weeks away I have been finding myself trying very hard to both keep busy, as well as get as much rest that is possible with Carter running around. I actually think that I could wash all of the baby clothes and organize the nursery one more time before I will finally be satisfied and be able to focus on something different, but Carter got bored with that task around three months ago when I started all of this nesting shenanigans... I just can't win!

     We had decided months ago that we had wanted to deliver our little girl at the Foothills Medical Center rather than the Peter Lougheed which I am now kicking myself for as I have now been informed that the second child can come like, one million times faster than the first. And with us living over an hour away from the hospital, I find my anxiety creeping up into the back of my throat whenever I think about the fact that I could go into labour at any moment now. So, I have my hospital bag packed and by the door, Carter's overnight bag packed, and three different people on call for babysitting our little mister while we once again venture off into the craziness that people call childbirth. Can you say obsessive much? No, I just am trying very hard to be prepared for something that you can never fully be prepared for. 

     On another note, I am very happy to announce that we are fully settled into our new home with everything now in its place and we are already making improvements! A couple months ago we got our backyard landscaped (which was one of the best things we have ever spent any money on), and we are planning on finishing our garage this winter for Brad to park his baby in. It's all coming along quite nicely which excites Brad and I more than we can express. 

     We've also made some awesome friends on our block which is so refreshing as we have never really had the opportunity to create any worthwhile relationships with any of our previous neighbors. I am particularily happy with the fact that we pretty much live on what my mother in-law likes to call "Sesame Street", which gives Carter the opportunity to play with all of the kids, and I get to have some nice time with the other mothers on our street. It is so nice to be able to associate with other women that are on the same page as I am. I found it extremely difficult when Carter was younger and all I wanted to do was have friends that had kids so they at least had some understanding of what my life was actually like. I now have this, and I feel so blessed.

     Well, our lives are pretty simmered at the moment as we prepare for baby to come so I don't really have much more to write about. I feel rather happy with this being my first post and I hope that I will be able to continue to find exciting and joyful things to share with you all once our newest member of our family arrives.

Till next time!