Confessions of a Blogaholic

I'm in the middle of spring break and I can honestly say I'll be ready for a vacation next week, lol.

Moving has been tough. I don't feel like I've done much since I can't lift and all that, but it has been mentally and physically exhausting. I would NEVER recommend moving this late in pregnancy, ESPECIALLY if you're going from an apartment to a house. I have to thank all of the awesome people who have been coming over the last few days to help us get our house set up. My mom helped out with load after load of laundry (mostly baby stuff from the shower) as well as putting things away. While I may not know where most of our stuff is at this moment, I am so glad it has been put away. Nate's mom has been coming over to paint and we're almost finished with the painting we plan to do right now. We've got a few rooms (dining room, sitting room, bedrooms, etc.) that are going to be just sitting for awhile. Also have to thank the men...Bill, Kirby, Nate, and Brian, who did all of the heavy lifting--ok, ok, ALL of the LIFTING--and got all of our stuff moved in.

The living room furniture came today, so we have everything we bought/ordered in the house at this point. Now, it's just a matter of putting things away.

The house is looking awesome. I'll post some before and after pictures as soon as we get some rooms complete :)

In baby news, I am absolutely ready to be done being pregnant. I know I've said it before, but it feels like every day I feel worse...every day I have some new symptom...and every day I feel that much more finished with being pregnant. My newest symptom is a lovely numbness in my fingers. It's just my fingertips, mainly my thumbs, index, and middle fingers on both hands, but they are pretty much numb most of the day. I read online about pregnancy induced carpal tunnel syndrome, and I'm hoping that's what it is. It is super obnoxious and annoying, though, and it's kept me awake most nights for about the last week. It's hard to do things (dry hair, put baby furniture together, cook, eat...) when you can't feel your thumbs!

Midwife appointment tomorrow. I know it's bad, but I'm almost hoping I'll be one step closer to being induced...Nathan wants at least another week to get settled in, though.

I still haven't had a free opportunity to work on the thank you cards from the baby shower, so if you're waiting on one, give me just a little more time before you start considering how rude I am. I'm trying, I promise!

Finally, Lifestyle communities suck. DO NOT rent from them. EVER. We had the WORST apartment move-out experience with them, so TRUST ME...DO NOT RENT FROM LIFESTYLE!!!

EDIT: I should add...Neither Nathan nor I feel like we are bragging about our home when we talk about it. To be honest, neither of us feel like this is really happening. It's as if we are talking about someone else's house---"Look at the garden tub in these people's house!! Isn't it awesome!!" We feel so lucky to even have FOUND this home, not to mention to be able to AFFORD it!! Are we proud? Oh, absolutely. We are so proud of all the work we've done in 7.5 years to get to this point. But, we aren't bragging. We love this house, but it's going to take some time before we feel like it is truly ours.