Today is my first day of freedom. AKA maternity leave.
Keith took me on a beach-date after my last day of work.
It was fantastic.
It is a Monday morning, I woke up with Keith at 5:45AM, got an important email sent off, and am sitting at my kitchen island in the sunshine with my tea and my toast. Sounds pretty good to me. Today is my official first day of maternity leave. Before this it was just the weekend. And I'm so happy that I live in a country where we get a full year for maternity leave. Most of the pregnant-lady forums that I've lurked online are predominantly American and I don't know how people manage to go back to work say 6 weeks after having baby. So in the spirit Canada Day having recently passed us, I say thank you Canada for maternity leave.
I am now 36 weeks along and I feel pregnant. In the past week things have gotten quite awkward. Baby has dropped and is riding low now. And while it's nice that it's not jammed up in my ribs all the time any more, I feel pregnant. I get hot swollen feet as soon as I'm warm or the slightest bit dehydrated (which it turns out happens quite quickly in July). I have difficulties rolling over and getting up off the couch. If I'm laying down my belly needs its own pillow for support. Ah pregnancy joys.
Swollen pregnant summer feet
Everyone is asking me what I'm going to do with my "month off" before baby comes (I believe my "freedom" then may end and I'll be thrown into a brand new schedule that I really can't plan for). And I am quite excited about my few pre-baby weeks. I am a huge fan of day planners. I just got my new one for the next year (I only ever get the academic ones and there is a very specific make-model that I'm addicted to and am now on my fourth year of using, if they ever discontinue it I'm not sure what I'll do with myself) and it is so exciting. I get to look all the way into 2014 now. Anyway. I have been writing myself to do lists in my day planner and it's just so satisfying to see all my necessary tasks laid out before me like that. Examples:
Today:
-write that important email (check!)
-make vet appointment for the dogs
-book hospital tour
-do laundry
-drill pocket holes
-put up upstairs curtain rods with Keith
The pocket holes are quite exciting. I've decided to finally try building the coffee table that I've been telling Keith all winter I was wanting to build. So of course now with the sun shining and an enormous belly I've decided is the best time to do so. We got the lumber yesterday ($50 total, I'm hoping I can make this project worth it, if I see a similar coffee table for less than $50 I am going to be quite irritated) and I made all my cuts. Just a little proud of myself. I even had some angled cuts that I'm pretty sure I got right (thanks to a helpful YouTube DIY tutorial - insert a picture of me sitting on the shed floor with my cellphone watching YouTube clips). So today I learn how to use my fancy Kreg-Jig to make pocket holes and maybe I can figure out how to start putting this thing together.
Don't be expecting a step by step blog post. It takes me long enough to sit there and stare at the instructions confusedly, add a camera into the mix and I may never get this thing done.
All in all there is a lot to do. We had our last ultrasound on Friday and they said it looks like baby may come in July rather than it's original expected early August. Which I would be quite alright with. I told Keith that as long as it gets to full term and he's home baby can come whenever it wants.
Well maybe not this week, I'm pretty excited about my pre-baby to do lists this week.
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