30 weeks

We are only 10 weeks away from our due date! I can't believe it.

One of my dearest friends just delivered her first, a daughter also, last week. Seeing and holding her made me realize...they really do come out of that belly eventually!

I'm starting to feel anxious...not about labor or delivery (though I guess I should be at least a little), but more about how little I have done. Part of it is not having a set aside space for baby stuff. I'm starting to accrue more items and our little one bedroom apartment (that was very comfortable for the two of us) now feels like its shrinking in size. Clutter puts me in a funk. My nesting drive has kicked in and we have nowhere to put things. So I am purging our closets and trying to find space as much as I can. I find myself cleaning incessantly and I still don't feel organized or prepared!

I keep telling myself the main thing is getting my desk organized, cleaned out, and out of the apartment (hopefully sold on craigslist). Once it is gone we can move in the chest/changing table with all its lovely drawers and I can put her items away in there.

We find out where Drew will match for orthopedic residency March 16th, our lease is up June 30th, and we will have to be moved in wherever he is placed well before his start date of July 1st. So we decided it made more sense just to stay in our apartment rather than break our lease, only to move again in May. So for now the plan is to use a "pack and play"/bassinet in our room for Evie to sleep in and a dresser/changing table in the living room where my desk is now. I think that will cover the basics for those first two months. Oh, and a glider in the living room too. :)

As for the rest of my panic, we have two baby showers in mid-February and I am hopeful that means we will have all the most vital items ready to go by early March. Even if we don't receive them from other people at least we will know what items we have left to get ourselves.

Side note, part of the "clutter" is not really clutter. You can see it behind me in these pictures (the large boards leaning against the bookshelf). Its an interactive evangelism station for my InterVarsity students focused on New Year's resolutions and life change. You can pray for us as we reach out to the Baylor campus 11am-3pm January 24-26!!!