40 Weeks... no baby in sight

So today is the fateful "due date", as well as my midwife's birthday, so you can be very near sure that NOTHING will happen today! Bummer! So much for hoping on an early birth! My parents are feeling Wednesday (which is also my brother-in-law's birthday) and my grandma is pulling for Friday (which also happens to be her 70th birthday). Personally, May 28th (Thursday) has always stood out in my head for some reason, though I have no idea why, and I am more than willing to get this baby out before then!

I have found myself to be very bored in recent days! Other than working on blogging stuff, I don't feel like doing much of anything, and honestly, I don't want to do anything that could potentially make a mess because my house is all set for labor (and has been for days)! I feel like I keep following Roman around making sure there aren't toys out all over the floor and things are neat and tidy. Before we go anywhere I go into frantic-cleaning-mode, making sure the dishes and laundry are done and everything is just right! It's ridiculous and I am sure I am driving my family crazy! But I can't help it! It's instinctual!

So, to escape the madness of keeping my house "perfect" I decided to retreat to my garden today, which desperately needed (and still needs) to be weeded. However, when I got out there I discovered that it has been taken over not by normal, big weeds, but by thousands of microscopic weeds that you practically need tweezers to extract! Of course that would have to be the case! So, I got nearly one row of my spinach weeded before the heat got the best of me and I decided to head back inside.

Oh well! At this point, I don't really care! In fact, since I am writing this during nap time, I think a Snickers Ice-cream Bar and a chick flick are calling my name! Yes- I'm going to kick up my feet, try to get semi-comfortable and enjoy treats and a show! Have a wonderful Memorial Day everyone!

Don't I look thrilled?!

The Garden is in!

Alright- I really wanted to have a decent garden this year and a couple of months ago I began buying seeds and planting starts to get myself already to go so that I could plant before the baby arrives. However I had one big snag- our backyard was one huge weed pit that I would never have been able to till up by hand (and believe me, I tried)!

Well, this last weekend everything fell into place for us to get my plants in the ground! The weather was great, my husband was home, and my wonderful grandma rented a tiller for us (since money has been incredibly tight) so that we could tear up the whole yard and just get it done! I am so thankful! We spent 6 hours on Saturday working outside in the rarely-seen sun as a family- it was great for all of us!

I have literally never seen our backyard look this nice- it actually appears to have some potential now! We planted Sunflowers, Corn, Green Beans, Cherry tomatoes, Broccoli, Raspberry bushes, a Blueberry bush, a Blackberry bush, two kinds of Strawberries, Lettuce, Spinach, Onions and Carrots! I also still have starts growing for Zucchini, Yellow Squash, Beefhouse Tomatoes, Watermelon, Pumpkins, Cantaloupe and more Broccoli too! I am really hoping that it all grows well so that it can help cut down on our food bill this summer- plus it will be a good excuse to get out in the yard this summer. We are also hoping to put in some grass in the main part of our yard after we get paid next so at least all the hard work we did of tilling up the weeds won't go to waste!

One more thing off my list and, in my opinion, a job well done!