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Today marks exactly four weeks until expected due date. I’m ready. I’m ready to meet my new little girl and to hold her in my arms. I’m ready to see my feet again and to walk without waddling. I’m ready to wear normal clothes again and to enjoy a glass of wine.

There are things I will miss about being pregnant, however, especially since this will quite likely be the last time I experience it. It is such a surreal and awesome thing to be growing another human being inside of you; one that is impossible to explain unless you’ve gone through it yourself. Again I will say that I have been very fortunate, with both pregnancies, to have been able to just enjoy it all without the discomforts and pains and issues that many women seem to have during or throughout their nine month gestation.

I wonder if at some point down the road I will want to be pregnant again, because I do enjoy it (not love, but enjoy), because it is an amazing journey, and because my body acclimates to it very well. I guess we’ll cross that bridge if or when we get there, but for now, I’m ready to move on from being pregnant to being a mom of two and remembering what it is like to have a newborn.

In the meantime, we’ve been trying to get a little more serious about getting our house sold. This Sunday will be the third in a row that we’ve had an open house. We’ve lowered the price, but not by much and had a home inspection done. It turns out we need a new roof, but other than that they told us we should have no problems selling it as is. It’s gotten a lot of looks and we have come close to getting an offer on several occasions, so I’m very hopeful that it will sell in the next month or so. It needs to sell in the next month or so.

As of today, our new house is still just foundation and a poured basement, but our builder’s schedule has them starting the framing next week. Matt and I will be spending our afternoon picking out our granite, cabinets and hopefully all the flooring. All of the exterior stuff like the siding, stone, and shutters has already been decided, and here’s the inspiration behind our choices:

So far, Matt and I have agreed on most everything (there was some back and forth on the stone choice, but that’s really it), and it helps that we do seem to have very similar tastes, for the most part. I’ve also been able to share some of my ideas and inspirations with him ahead of time (thank you Pinterest!) so going into these things we have some clue of what we are looking for instead of being completely indifferent, which is why I’m expecting that this afternoon will be relatively painless and with minimal argument.

Like I said, we’re moving right along, with everything. It’s a little stressful trying to get all of the pieces of this puzzle to come together nicely, but it’s also exciting at the same time. A new baby, a new house: these are some pretty major changes in our lives, but change is good.

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