For those of you who know me, you’ll be inclined to agree that I take planning to a whole new level. For those of you who don’t? Well you’re about to find out. Have I thanked you all for reading this lately? Thanks a bunch!
So let’s dive in. I seriously can think of a dozen women that I know off the top of my head that are pregnant right now. I don’t know if you always know everybody who is pregnant, and you just don’t notice it when you’re not pregnant… But one thing that I have definitely noticed is I am truly a planner.
My registry was started at 14 weeks. My nursery theme has been picked out since before then. My baby girl’s name has been picked out for… years. My baby shower dates have been set for months, heck ~ I’ve already sent a Facebook invite to my friends for my July shower. Yes, I realize that it’s still April ~ however I’m missing your point completely. I like to plan my life well in advance, and therefore give everyone else the opportunity to do the same. Where was I… Ahh, yes.
So in my dealings with these other pregnant women in my life, I’m always getting the “isn’t it a bit early to be doing that?” look. When I’m like… What do you MEAN you haven’t started preparing the nursery yet? Interviewing daycares? Pediatricians? *SCOFF*
The fact of the matter is, I just want to be as ready as I physically can be because I’m a crazy stressed out monkey on a daily basis. I don’t need any surprises to make things even worse! Let’s not even get started on the fact that I am going to do all I can to ensure that my LO’s OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) is no where near as serious as mine!
But I wanted to share with you a few things that I am doing to make things a bit more… streamlined.
A.) Yes, I know that somebody else throws the baby shower. But why does that mean I can’t get involved? For just 50 cents an invitation I created invitations and mailed them to my mother to send out. I love my mother, but I’m pretty sure if I hadn’t one of two things would have happened.
1.) She would have spent $3 an invitation to have someone else do them.
2.) I would have wound up with those hand written fill in the blank invitations.
B.) I am creating a packet of information for the people that I am allowing to come visit us in the hospital AFTER the baby is born. It’s got some simple instructions along with the times that we will be allowing visitors as the hospital stated that they don’t really enforce visiting hours on the L&D floor. EFF THAT NONSENSE! It also has directions, parking information, what they’ll need to bring with them, etc.
C.) We have primed the nursery and will be putting the base coat on early next month. Then we will be having a friend come in to add some hand painted jungle animals to the theme so that we can get all of the furniture in as it arrives. I truly hope to have the nursery 90% complete no later than a week after my third and final baby shower. This will give me a month and a half to prepare the rest of the house.
Some of the other things I’m doing include crocheting ~ not just for Grandma’s anymore, reading all those baby books graciously piling up, and trying to keep scary thoughts of the big day out of my head. That’s all for now. Again, I told you there would be some ranting. Hope you all have a great week!
Sincerely,
~Nikki
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