Something to Celebrate!: What We've Been Doing Lately (Blog Post for the last 3 weeks)

When the rest of the tax world takes a sigh of relief after April 15th…I’m still going hard. I do non-profit tax and our deadline is May 15th. Luckily this year I’ve been able to work from home about 1 day per week. It’s really been nice…well, as nice as working from home can be. Believe me…there are other things I’d rather be doing at home. And this last week I was sick. Yuck. I had a sore throat and nasal congestion and I even went to the doc to make sure I didn’t have strep throat. Nope, it was just a viral infection that had to run its course. Lovely! This is what my workspace looks like at home, seriously…I really used all these Kleenexes in one day.

Jay and Jana came to visit us this weekend and we enjoyed seeing them! Unfortunately I had to work some of the time and we had really nasty weather. But we still had time to go to a movie and out to dinner a couple times. Also, Jana brought me this sewing machine! I’ve been wanting to get an inexpensive, used sewing machine just to practice on and make simple things. But I haven’t had a lot of luck finding a good deal…so I thought it was really thoughtful when Jana brought me this nice surprise. Now, I just need to see if I can get it tuned and start sewing some things.

I have always slept on my back, and sleeping on your back when your pregnant is not very good for the baby and it’s also not comfortable. No matter how hard I tried and how many pillows I propped around me, I always woke up on my back. So, I looked on Amazon…and I found a great pillow!
It was one of the more inexpensive full-body pillows and it had very high ratings. I read some of the reviews and I thought it was cute how pregnant couples came up with nicknames for the pillow like “my new boyfriend Bob” or “love nest.” I wondered if Jared would come up with a nickname for my pillow. Sure enough…the first night I pulled it out to sleep with Jared said, “What the heck is that? Are you sleeping with an inner tube?” So now we affectionately call my body pillow my inner tube.

There are several other projects that I really want to get done before I have the baby. One of those is getting our food storage in place. The first step is SHELVES. I found some simple, yet heavy duty shelves at Lowes. My wonderful husband went there today and bought two of them and set them up for me. He’s so great! Now we have a place to store the wheat and oats Jana gave us.

We don’t have a whole lot of food yet…but we’re getting there and that feels really nice!

Here's Jared in his other BOGO (Buy-one-Get-one Free) suit...pinstripes. I think he looks great!

I'm working 60 hour weeks right now...I'm sure I sound like a baby but it's really difficult especially because I'm pregnant. Just 1 more week of this and then I'll be done with busy tax season. But let me just say that my Sundays are a welcome day of rest for me. It's a day when I can actually do things I enjoy and take naps and I get to spend time with Jared. He has really helped me and taken care of me during this busy time!

Jared built some boxes for me and I'm hoping to put together a square foot garden. We have big trees in our backyard, so I'm hoping that I can find some sunlight somewhere. Maybe I can trim a few branches of our tree. This little planter bench area is where I'm hoping to plant my herb garden...but as you can see, it's shaded most of the day.
And I got our 14 day water supply. Wal-Mart had exactly 7 containers…just the right amount for me, Jared, and the baby! It wasn't too hard filling these things up with water. The hardest part was sterilizing them. We got bleach everywhere! That was a mess and a pain…I’m so glad that Jared helped me. Okay, he really did it…I just sat in for the picture. :-)