I am officially two days away from my due date and everyone wants to know how I’m feeling. I sum it up in one word: uncomfortable. One of the midwives I saw was surprised at how short my torso is. Even though baby has dropped, it still manages to take up my entire torso space. I can’t breathe and I still have heartburn, but I also manage to waddle. That’s not supposed to happen.

Today, Andrew and I went to Costco together. Usually he goes by himself, but today I invited myself along because I keep thinking about how each trip could be the last time we do something without a baby along. So we stocked up and I enjoyed the freedom of not having a baby yet.

Shopping Action Shot! Andrew did all of the running around while I pushed the cart and tried not to look like I was going to birth the baby right there in the bakery section.

Obligatory last shopping trip selfie! I feel like this could probably double as a “first shopping trip with baby” photo as Andrew will probably be just as thrilled and I will look just as tired and not be wearing makeup just like in this one. I’ll just badly photoshop our shirts to be different colors in a few months and use it again.

It is nice to finally feel ready for a baby to come. All of the big stuff is done. I plan on spending any of the pre-baby maternity leave I might get just doing small stuff like wiping down the bathroom or dusting the living room. I also plan to cuddle Ralph as much as possible. He knows a baby is coming and I feel like he is ambivalent about it. He enjoys using my bump as a pillow, which I hope means he likes the baby already. But he also has been wanting more attention, so I feel like he is also jealous. I think he will be fine once baby is actually here though.

Here’s the little babushka being a baby for his mom.

And the excitement in the last couple of days was something that only seems to happen to the Tuohy family. I’m cloth diapering the baby and besides the new diapers we bought, we found a bunch of used, good condition diapers for sale online. After buying a garbage sack stuffed full of them, they were waiting by the door to travel to my house from Albert Lea. Long story short, the $200 sack of cloth diapers is now living somewhere in the Albert Lea dump.

I’m not going to lie, I cried for a while when I first heard. It was at least partially from the hormones raging through my body though. Now, I think it is kind of funny. What else are you going to do but laugh? Sometimes you just have to accept these things and move on. Life is how you react to situations like this and I’m hoping this outlook will help once my parenting journey starts.

I know it helps in the toddler room. On our worst day ever, everything was going wrong. Multiple accidents in underwear, paint all over the wall, broken drinking glasses, and anything else that could happen, did happen.  I finally just had to laugh when a child sitting on the potty somehow did a somersault with the potty still attached to their backside. Yes, they had already gone pee. Yes, it went all over the floor. Yes, I stood and laughed uproariously while the child scowled at me because that is how I kept sane in that moment.

And in case you are worried, my amazing sister leapt immediately into action and found more diapers online that we purchased for a good deal.