In honor of WE (who hates to make New Years Resolutions – or at least to call them that…), I’ve decided today that I’m going to take credit for completing a resolution that I didn’t actually make until about 3 seconds ago – which I might add was after I’d already completed it How’s that for never getting down on yourself for unmet goals!

Anyway, our garage is now completely spotless! Yesterday we spent a good portion of the afternoon cleaning, organizing, and purging. Now we no longer have anything sitting in the garage that we do not use or don’t have plans to use in the next year. In fact, some of the stuff WE put on craigslist this morning and it was AMAZING how fast it disappeared. That’s the world we live in, I guess. People will take anything if it’s ‘free’!

Now both of our cars (which fit in the garage beforehand) have even more wiggle room and best of all we actually know where everything is out there. We’ll see how long stuff stays in it’s place. But for now, it feels oh so good!

…towards the baby count down.

I got through the Christmas holiday and realized I only have 10 weeks left. No more procrastinating my ‘to-do’ list.

So this week I signed up for 5 mostly free (nice!) baby classes at the hospital including delivery, breast feeding, breast pumping, infant care, and safety/CPR. So practically every Saturday in February is booked with classes (oh and YW basketball games…ps did I mention that I’m coaching the girls team this season?)

Also this week, I made my very first  baby related purchase…wipes and one-sies I found for a super deal. Woot!

But in case you think I have gotten nothing yet in preparation, don’t worry. I’ve already received some great gifts including a crib (thanks BJ!), a really nice breast pump (thanks JH!), and lots of other super cutesie necessities from family and friends.

Fun boy clothes (thanks MIL and JS!) I love the ‘Future Rebel’ and ‘I Rule’ prints…

Nursery toys, books, and monkey stuff (thanks Mom!) I’m starting to see a trend in placing animal appliqué on the baby bums and I like it

Handmade (wow!) activity book for when junior gets a little older (thanks MIL!)

More hand-crafted. And soft! white baby blessing blanket, burp rags, receiving blankets, etc (thanks SS and MIL!)

I also got some great reads (no pic) from my sister-in-law for Christmas (thanks AH!) including ‘Secrets of the Baby Whisperer’, ‘Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems’, and ‘The 5 Love Languages of Children.’ If you have other must-reads, I’m all ears!

Now, the next few things to tackle are to finish registering (I couldn’t get away with not doing that so we are registering at JCPenney and Target), paint the nursery, find a nanny, and last but not least…decide on a name!!

I think it’s getting more and more real for WE too. He’s having dreams about being a dad (ha, some probably more like nightmares) and getting more anxious about keeping up with his workload (i.e. work, school, church, side business, and ME of course!) when the baby comes.

But life is good and we are so happy to be grounded in the gospel/our faith and to have such an awesome support system in our family and friends! Bring it on – I say!