i can't believe i lost another two weeks since i blogged last!

It's been two weeks already?? Ugh! So much has happened, I don't even know where to start!  I guess I'll start now and work backwards.

Well with D-Day right around the corner, my to-do list has certainly started to look a little (ok, ok, a LOT) more ominous!

D-Day you ask? Yes! We got the all-clear yesterday that we're having little Hudson this weekend! On Tuesday, I went to my normal appointment (still making slow progress: went from a fingertip dilated to a fingertip and could feel his head to 1 cm, 50% effaced and "soft") and then to the specialist appointment for the BPP - but the day before, the specialist had agreed to bump the amnio up from next week's appointment to this one's.

So then yesterday I went back to my normal doctor for the results (which weren't in) and the Rhogam shot (since we didn't want to wait another 2 hours after the amnio for it) and was told to come back today for the results. And then I got the best call yesterday afternoon.  My favorite nurse called to say that the amnio came back, his lungs are mature, and we're going in at 7:30pm Saturday to start the induction!

Well, I guess that means it's time to step it up when it comes to my to-do list, since "before he gets here" is now only a matter of days away!

• clean entire house (like major clean - vacuum, mop, sweep, dust, put away unnecessary crap, tie off unsafe cords, scrub bathrooms)
• rearrange our bedroom (got to have somewhere to put the pack-n-play until he's ready to go in a crib in his own room, the lamp, and the humidifier)
• finish making foods to stock up our freezer (oh yeah, I guess that means I need to grocery shop!)
• get all of the Christmas presents together, make sure I've gotten everything, get them packed up to send to Mimi's house for wrapping
• buy my sister's birthday present (party next weekend that I'm helping chaperone?)
• get Natalie's outfit for her chorus concert
• figure out the travel schedule (especially with the girls) for Christmas
• wash/dry/fold/hang clothes (why does this seem never-ending??)
• finish thank you cards from baby shower (yes, I've procrastinated!)
• finish our Christmas/baby announcement cards, get the labels printed, order cards, get stamps, get ready to send out BEFORE time this year
• finish getting everything ready at work for me to be out and get my boss' s wife trained on how to be me on a daily basis - all in a matter of a couple hours at lunchtime today, because that's probably all the time I'm going to have to spend up there!
• repack my hospital bag - I've been putting this off because I knew that I'd want to have a rudimentary system in case I went into labor sooner, but since it's planned now, I can take the time to pack the stuff I really want to take
• shave my legs - haha, I don't even know why I'm bothering; it's going to take forever to reach them and they'll probably be splotchy, but it's the thought that counts, right?