Someone come kick me into gear today, please!

I'm just having one of those days where I don't feel like doing ANYTHING. Granted, it's only 10-something in the morning and I slept a little late, but still. There are plenty of things to do around here, and I just don't feel like doing any of them.

I promised DH that I would pack my hospital bag soon, so I should probably try to do that today. Especially since I'm "term" now and Little Guy could seriously come any day. My midwife is having me come back on Tuesday because my blood pressure was a little high yesterday. If it's still high, she'll check me and possibly do a membrane sweep. Just from her external checking, she said his head is extremely low and asked me if I feel like he has dropped yet. I'm short-waisted so honestly, I can't tell. All I know is that my hips hurt less after last night's sleep than they have in MONTHS. So that's exciting. (Oh, and the membrane sweep? She said that IF it works, he'll be here after 3 days, max. So that could have me holding my baby in my arms by next Friday. That possibility both terrifies and thrills me to no end.)

We had a great Labor Day weekend with DH's parents. Seriously, we are SO spoiled, and we know it and are so thankful for it. We ended up coming home with even more baby stuff, a dress for me to wear postpartum, a couple new ties for DH to wear to work, and we bought ourselves a blender with a food processor attachment with a gift card we had. I am SO excited about the blender! I've been wanting one for ages, to do smoothies with. Our first attempt with them the other night sucked, to be honest, but I've looked up some recipes and hopefully our next batch will be good. :) I want to try some green smoothies with stuff like kale or spinach and just not tell DH what's in them. A little veggies will be good for him!

My brain is officially ready for fall. (I know, I may have mentioned that before, right?) So I went to Hobby Lobby yesterday and bought myself the "ingredients" for a fall wreath for our front door! All of the little items were 40% off except for the actual wreath itself, so I showed them the online coupon and got 40% off of that, too. :) Savvy shopper in the hizzouse. I agonized over what kind of design I wanted, what colors to use, etc etc. Our front door is red so OBVIOUSLY I couldn't do red fall items because it'd blend in, and where's the fun in that? So I ended up with creamy/yellowish and orange, and I'm pretty happy with it. I'm looking forward to the day that I have a decorating budget that allows me to deck the halls for every season and holiday. Fall wreath this year, ceramic pumpkin centerpiece next year? I think yes.

Clearly, I have no willpower.

When fall comes around (or even just moderately cooler summer weather), I cannot resist the urge to bake. Anything with pumpkin in it makes me ridiculously happy. My Pumpkin Spice candle from Yankee Candle company has already clocked a good 8 hours of burn time in the last couple weeks just because it lets me feel like I'm baking something delicious, without the temptation to consume the calories.

So today, while DH sanded the primer on the dresser drawers for baby boy's room, I baked. I couldn't help myself. I know I'm up 30lbs this pregnancy. I know I need to be careful about my sugar intake. I know carbs aren't all that good for me. But sometimes, I just don't care. And baking is one of those times. I wanted to bake bread, but I wanted pumpkin...so I made Pumpkin Chocolate Chip bread. It smelled like autumnal heaven in my house while it baked, and was equally delicious once it came out of the loaf pans and was cool enough to eat.

I got the recipe here. I will definitely be making the bread again at some point, but I'll probably half the amount of nutmeg that the recipe calls for. It's good, but I haven't used much nutmeg before so the flavor for me is almost a little overwhelming.

I am really hoping that this coming weekend will be the end of our baby room preparations. The dresser and drawers are all primed and sanded...all we have left to do is paint the thing. We have a spray gun and are going to borrow an air compressor so hopefully, the painting will go by really quickly. I'm so impatient to just get it in the room and get all his teensy little clothing into it. We've got all his laundry done and folded and sorted by size, and now we're just...waiting. I still need to pack my hospital bag, but that feels a little too "real" and I just can't bring myself to do it.

35 weeks down...35 days to go. Here's my bump picture; I haven't posted one in a few weeks.

I'm...cold. Wait, really?

It looks like this is it, folks. Fall. Maybe?

The weather here in southern KY has suddenly turned un-hot, perhaps even a bit chilly. I'm sitting in my living room with the ceiling fan switch firmly positioned to "off," and yet I'm not sweating. I'm actually cold. My toes are begging me to find some thick woolly socks, and my arms are all like, "What, you couldn't find a hoodie? Seriously?" I'm pretty sure our winter stuff is all up in the attic, and there is no way I'm trying to drag it down from there. I can just picture DH coming home to find me at the bottom of the attic ladder, passed out with a large crate lying on top of me, cats sniffing my hair and crying at me to give them food. No, thanks.

Fall is, and has always been my favorite season. I love it when the air gets chilly and crisp, and I love fall colors. And I LOVE Halloween. I've been told that I'll get to dress up for work if I'm scheduled on H-day this year, and I'm pretty pumped about that. I stood in the bathroom at 11:30 last night, playing with my makeup and trying to create something Halloween worthy. I was successful, but I didn't take pics. Shame.

Even my favorite time of year is sadder this time, though. I just keep thinking that man, I would've been 18 weeks pregnant with Finley on Halloween. I probably would've had a bump and everything. It's such a cruddy feeling to realize all the things that I'll never get to share with this baby. But I can't change the past...I just have to keep loving Finley and keep praying for our take-home baby. Hopefully we'll be able to make our sticky baby soon and I'll be able to have a healthy, normal pregnancy. (Although I have to admit, I can't even imagine what a healthy pregnancy would be like.)

I think I'm going to go find a cardigan. That's right, a cardigan. With long sleeves. Welcome back, Fall.I missed you.