Nineteen weeks down and 21 to go (well hopefully …)! I’m so ready to meet my baby girl! This week has been very eventful. At the doctor’s appointment two weeks ago, everyone was asking whether I was feeling any movement yet. I didn’t expect to feel anything this early, so I really hadn’t concentrated on it. I just figured that when it was time, I’d feel a jab in a part of my insides and that’d be the beginning of movement. BUT we have been “messing” with her since the day we found out that we were having a girl. Laying on my back, either Shane or I will gently press on my stomach to either wake her up or make her move. The first night that Shane was pressing, Tuesday May 3, she actually kicked off his hand to move. He kept smiling and saying that’s my daughter that kicked me! It was such a happy moment for both of us. I can really tell that he’s starting to feel a part of the pregnancy now that he can feel her!
Since that night, we’ll lay in bed or on the couch and mess with her to see if we can feel her moving around or kicking. Sometimes when I concentrate on it, I can feel her moving around in there without me even having to press on my 
This week in the nursery, I have all of her clothes folded and put in the cart. I washed all of the hand me down clothes we’ve gotten. We bought a dresser at Restore for her room that has to be stained and we’ve gotta get new handles. The items for the room are definitely coming together! Now if I can just get it painted so I can start setting things up that’d be wonderful!
This week also marks an important start to the next few months of chaos. I am trying to get back into couponing hard core to prepare myself for a few months of not being able to do much other than be with baby. I have a lot of restocking to do from the past 4 months of not really paying too much attention to sales. It’s going to be a lot of work to get a stockpile built back up, but I’m ready for it! I’m going to be baking bread and being as frugal as possible for the coming months in preparation for the big diaper expense!!
Tonight is so sad … missing my mom so much! Tomorrow would have been my first mother’s day to celebrate with her as a mom, and I don’t know how well I’m going to be able to hold myself together. We’ve got some flowers to take up to her grave tomorrow and I hope she likes them. I chose purple being we’re doing the baby’s decorations and room in a lot of purple and I want her to know how much her grandbaby loves her!!! To think that tomorrow will be 5 months since I got the gut wrenching phone call is crazy! Time has certainly flown by and I wouldn’t have been able to get through it without the support group I have around me.
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