34 Weeks
Where do I even begin? I was doing good and cruising along until this week. Quinn got sick (I blame nursery). I was so sad for him because his little voice was hoarse, he wasn't sleeping well, and I could tell he was miserable...and then I got it, and I knew he was miserable. Throw on top of being sick the worst heart burn in my life, and the usual tiredness of being 34 weeks pregnant. This pregnancy has definitely had it's differences from my first.
This baby is constantly moving! I do get some inner joy and tender feelings toward our little guy while he's moving around, but when he's kicking me from the inside and Quinn is kicking me from the outside, I want a little break.
I just started getting heart burn the last couple of nights, and it has been terrible. It is not just the acidic heart burn that bubbles up every once in a while but this heavy pain in my whole chest. I thought I would have to go to the emergency room last night and get a c-section to relieve my agony. That is a little extreme, but I hadn't slept, my throat hurt, my ears were itchy, and my chest hurt so bad, something had to give.
This pregnancy I have gone from craving vegetables to carbs to ice cream to cereal. Now I am at that point where I have no room in my stomach for much of anything, and I don't get hungry. I know I need to keep eating, but there is no room in there. Baby is taking up all of my space. These are all new things that I didn't have with Quinn and it's been hard to get used to because I wasn't expecting them. I thought things would sail as smoothly as the first, but they aren't. I will admit that today I've started to feel doubtful about being able to go another six weeks. At this point it seems like a really long time.
My Big Surprise!
Since we have moved out here I have been scouring Craigslist, pinterest, and the whole internet on ways to decorate and furnish our new home. We actually have space we can fill and the freedom to coordinate and do what I want. The big thing is that I need to try to spend as little money as possible while trying to get everything done on my ambitious list before Baby gets here.
The first thing we needed before we could do anything was a couch because our whole color scheme and set up of our living room revolves around that main piece of furniture. However, before we could get a couch, we needed to have our garage sale to empty out some of the garage and raise money for the couch. After two weekends of garage selling we called it good and started looking at furniture stores.
At the second furniture store we visited I found a sectional I really liked. I loved the fabric, color, size, and the price of the sectional. We decided we would go home and measure out our space to make sure it would fit and return to the store on Monday. We measured our space and thought the sectional may be too big because we wanted to make sure Quinn would still have room to play, and I didn't want our whole space taken up by a couch.
We were really bummed out but thought it was the right decision to keep looking. On Tuesday we tried a different furniture store. We found a sectional we liked, but it was a little over our budget. We walked through the whole store not liking anything else, and then I saw the same sectional from the previous store. We went and sat on it, and I was convinced it was smaller and couldn't be as big as the other one. Christian assured me it was the same sectional and there was no size difference. It just didn't seem like it would be too big. Also, it was cheaper than the first store we saw it in.
Christian talked to the saleswoman, and we decided to get it, but the next question was the color. We both really liked the grey, but they would've had to order it and it wouldn't have arrived for 3-4 weeks. I have a baby coming in six! How could I wait that long? I still need to paint, refinish two dressers, find curtains, kitchen rugs, bathroom rugs, and hang things on the walls. All of this is waiting on the couch. We talked it over and waiting another 3-4 weeks was worth it to get the color we wanted if you considered that we will have this couch for a very long time. I conceded to having to take my paint swatches to the store so I could pick which one went best with the grey couch and kind of going from there.
Fast forward to Saturday. We didn't have much going on, but my parents were really busy hosting a camp-out for the young women. I didn't think we were going to go over there at all, and we would have a lazy Saturday at home. My dad called in the afternoon and asked if we wanted to come over, and Christian said he wanted to go look at guns. As soon as we got to their house he asked Christian to go with him to buy some dirt at Fleet Farm. I thought that was their out to make a stop to look at guns somewhere along the way. I was happy to just get out of our house and hang out somewhere else so I didn't complain.
Later that evening it had seemed like they had been out too long to just be buying some dirt, but I just assumed they had stopped to shoot guns or look at guns or something along those lines that was fun for them. They brought dinner home, and we hung out for a little while longer until Quinn's bedtime when we had to leave. When we got home we came in through the garage, and I was distracted with getting Quinn out of his seat and starting to prepare him for bed...until I looked over into our living room. My sectional was sitting there, and I could not believe what I was seeing! I jumped up and down and ran over there having no idea how we had our couch already. While I was laying all over my couch I looked at our wall and saw the painting I had admired at the store and commented on how it would go well with the dune colored couch while taking up a good portion of our vaulted ceiling wall space. Christian, in all of his sneaky ways, ordered the dune color instead of the pewter so we could get it sooner, and he also got the painting along with it. I love him, and I love my new couch and painting!
I think it will work out really well because the dune is more of a tan gray which will allow me to bring in warmer colors as opposed to the pewter where I would have had to stick to cool colors. I absolutely love it, and it doesn't take up too much space. I will be great for entertaining and snuggling my Quinn and new baby. We got it at perfect timing too because Saturday night was the night my heart burn was really bad so I came out on the couch and was able to fall asleep propped up on our spacious sectional. Now if only we could get a bigger TV....I know, one thing at a time. A new TV is towards the bottom of my home furnishings list and is a ways off. I think next is a little bit of paint to warm up our very white walls.
I will take some pictures to add to this post. I just wanted to get all the details of my very exciting weekend written down.
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