Schoool's...out...for....ever!

Yippeeeee!  It is such a wonderful feeling to be done.  I don’t think it’s completely sunk in yet, I still have a teeny nagging guilty feeling, like “what paper am I supposed to be working on?”  But it’s all done.  Done.  Complete.  Sweet!  I was laying in bed this morning staring out the window and Eric came in and said “guess what you don’t have to worry about anymore?”  I said “School, yay!  But now I’m just laying here thinking how much there is to do to get our house ready for baby and it’s only 20 weeks away!!!”  There’s so many things I know I need to do, and probably SO many more that I haven’t even thought of!  Complicated by the fact that our water heater is NOT working right now, so that is first priority.  Luckily, Eric’s mom and dad are on vacation right now in Glacier, so we have been able to stay at their house all week.  Anyway, we have a guy coming out tomorrow to give us a quote on a new water heater as well as AIR CONDITIONING!  I’m pretty excited about that.  Probably not a whole lot will get done at our house for awhile after that because…

We have so much other excitement coming up soon…  Next weekend Eric and I are going to a charity golf tournament in Sunnyside, WA to represent INHS, and we are staying in a … Bed and Breakfast!!  That will be so fun!  I’ve never stayed in a B&B before but I can’t wait.  Our room has it’s own entrance, own bathroom (phew!) AND a jacuzzi tub!  Eric almost died when I told him we were staying in a bed and breakfast, I’m sure he can’t even bring himself to tell his friends about it or even utter the words “bed and breakfast” – but I think secretly he’s excited too.

After that, we have our ultrasound on the 27^th, YAY!  And on the 30^th we are heading to Seaside for a week, during which we will be celebrating our 5 year anniversary!  Then Saturday the 5^th will be baby’s first concert – Dave Matthews Band at the Gorge.  Then after Labor Day it will definitely be time to really get down to business in the baby’s room.  Here’s my to-do list for that undertaking:

Move every stick of furniture from upstairs (both rooms) to the basement

Move living room furniture… somewhere, probably to the kitchen

Empty closet in baby’s room (upstairs)

PAINT baby’s room

Have carpets cleaned upstairs and on the main floor

Start filling up the baby’s room with baby stuff!!

Then there is a whole other project that has to happen too.  Eric and I are currently sleeping in the basement but we’re moving back upstairs to the master bedroom.  So we have to move all of our stuff upstairs and try to find a way to fit all of our clothes in the one closet in there that currently is FULL of only my clothes.  And of course rearrange the basement so we have a semi-functional guest room, office, playroom, etc.  And possibly get the carpets cleaned down there too, although I’m not sure how badly they need it.

It’s going to be a busy fall in the Haynes house.

BUT FIRST… now that I’m done with textbooks for good, I need something nice and frivolous to read before I get down to studying about parenting, newborns, breastfeeding, childbirth, etc.  Any thoughts?