Oh boy, I'm way behind. I know you see that for yourself, but I just had to affirm. Things have been massively busy around here and I'm pretty stressed in general about getting all my work done both for home and, well.. work.

So I'm feeling a lot better about most of this whole Baby thing, but the weight of many things is certainly great. For now, I'm trying to get as much work done as I can while Amy isn't totally knocked out. She's been sick a few times now, which sucks for her since she has very limited medicinal options. Luckily, it's been smaller things like head colds and coughs, but it still sucks.

Our friends have been contributing many wonderful things to us, including things like car booster seats (will be a while before we use those) and toys that have been previously-loved. I think that rocks. I like the idea of using stuff passed-down, but that's basically how I grew up. I'm the youngest of a large group, so I mostly knew only of hand-me-downs in general.

On the other side of the "wonderful to get helpful stuff" coin is the part where the stress hits a bit: where are we going to put this wonderful, helpful stuff??!? Again I'll point out that we have been together, doing our thing, for over a decade and we're pretty well settled into a bit of a routine. We're less than stone-like in our ways, but still, we didn't spend a bunch of years planning on having a little rug-rat rummaging around and needing his/her own space! So... we're trying to figure out how to rearrange our home to accommodate.

For instance, we've been given a wonderful (yeah, that word again) crib that is both beautiful and, well... massive! I haven't put it together yet, but dang, this thing should hold the kid until s/he is about 10 years old, I figure. (yeah, that's a joke... maybe.) This is an example of what I'm getting at -- we don't have a place for a separate bed!! We barely had a setup for a spare bedroom, but now I guess the kid gets that space. We went from having a guest room (with a bit of storage thrown in) to having a kid's room with absolutely nothing kid-like in it! I've got some cleaning to do. *sigh*

In Amy's words: "quit yer bellyachin'!"... yeah, I know. We're whining a lot about this stuff, but it really is a major adjustment for us. I know we're not unique on that front, but hey.. it's my blog, so I'm writing about my gripes!

Anyway... I'm not sure what I'm getting at with all this. I just figured I'd write something down and let folks know I'm still around. Amy is claiming she's getting ready to post more too, so we'll see if we can get 'er done.

Cheers,
Paul