Warm Weather Christmas

These little snow friends are wondering what to do... it's been warm and rainy in Connecticut, not at all the kind of weather you expect for Christmas! The high on Thursday is supposed to be 50 degrees Fahrenheit! If you can believe that!

We had a lovely, quiet day on Christmas day. I cooked breakfast (buckwheat/pecan pancakes, with pecans from Laura G's back yard) and we opened our gifts by the tree. People had sent such thoughtful, beautiful things, and Ziggy enjoyed a few new toys as well. We talked to our families on the phone and just spent the day together. In the afternoon we watched one of Marty's new DVDs, The Blues Brothers, while I wrote some thank-you notes. It was a great day, relaxing and quiet.

Yesterday, we started working hard! We are taking this week to convert the study into a room for the baby. The first order of business was to move my desk/computer into our bedroom. So we cleaned and dusted our bedroom and de-cluttered as well as we could, then brought the computer in and set it up by the window. To make it fit on a smaller table, we had bought a flat-screen monitor the day before Christmas... and wow. Wow! I love this monitor! It's so big and beautiful! I never really thought I needed one (although I had one at work) but this has been really easy to get used to. The screen itself is only an inch or so bigger than my old one, but wow! It is huge and gorgeous. I have it set on the highest resolution and everything looks great.

Yesterday afternoon we went out to find Marty a new dresser. His old one, which his grandfather made by hand years ago, will go into the baby's room. Marty needed a bigger one anyway, so this is working out well. We found one pretty easily and it is supposed to be delivered tomorrow. So today we'll continue with the conversion of the upstairs rooms. I think the next items on the agenda are moving the old computer desk out of the study, switching a couple of bookcases (the baby already has so many books! it is wonderful!), and setting up the crib. Well, first we have to de-clutter the study as well. So we'll be working in there today.

And with all of this, I also go for my weekly monitoring appointment at the hospital and doctor's office this afternoon. Marty will come along so he can see the baby on the ultrasound. Today I am 34 weeks pregnant... in other words, our due date is 6 weeks away. Wow!