amanda lauber-strupp

So here I am, trying a blog once again.  I can’t promise that it will be interested, or exciting, or even very up-to-date.

There’s a lot of changes going on in our lives right now, and things go so fast that I don’t even really have time to think about them… I’m hoping that maybe if I can put things here, and share them with you (whoever ‘you’ might be) then it will give me time to actually think about what’s going on.

Today, I am 31 weeks pregnant with our first little baby, Sofie Kate.  She’s due to arrive in this world in 60 days… and I hope she’s punctual.  I’m enjoying being pregnant a lot more than I thought that I would, and so far (knock on wood) I haven’t had any problems with anything really.  No gestational diabetes, no anemia, only 1 trimester of morning sickness, and I’ve gained less than 10 lbs. (woot for me!).

We’re slowly but surely getting prepared for this baby.  N is working on refinishing the floor in her room, and it will hopefully be done soon.  We’ve got a pile the size of a size of a small car in our living room that is stuff that we received as the baby shower over the weekend… just waiting for somewhere to go.  We’re buying a custom closet system for her room, so that she’ll have someplace to put all her stuff, and we’re waiting on the floor to be done to get it.  Our crib should be coming in soon (hopefully) and then things will need to be a bit more organized.  Our house is a complete disaster… for too long we’ve been saying “we’ll just leave this pile of junk here and get to it later” so everywhere you look there are piles of junk.  It’s very frustrating, but what is even more frustrating is that I’m way too lazy to do anything about it lately.  I keep thinking “I still have 9 weeks”  which is totally not the way I should look at it.

Here is a picture of N and I at the baby shower over the weekend…