Making Headway

So, I'm officially making headway in getting ready for the baby to arrive! We had our first shower this weekend and got lots of wonderful goodies for her - tons of cute outfits, a bath tub, diapers, wipes, even a handknit hat (which of course I love :) ). People are really sweet! If I get the photos cleaned up soon, I'll post a few of them.

I have also accepted that she will probably live in our current house for at least the early stages of her little life (since we have just started looking to buy a house and have not even gone to see the mortgage people yet, ugh.). As a result, I'm making room for her and all her stuff in the house. Yeah, babies have a lot of stuff LOL! I've got bags of clothes and stuff to get rid of and a ton of books to go to Bookmans. I'm going to keep her clothes and most of her gear in our guest bedroom/study/craft room - in baskets on a giant bookshelf I cleared off. Her bedding and blankets and bath stuff now have a home in our linen/bathroom closet - that took a lot of cleaning out. I actually had Alka Seltzer in there that expired in 2003! Seriously. 2003. Yikes. Her crib will go in our room and the top of our dresser is now going to be her changing table. To make that work I've moved a chair out of our room and cleared some of the knick-knacks off the dresser. I still have a little way to go on that, but we won't be getting the crib until at least next weekend - maybe later. Some friends are giving us theirs as they're finished with it. Hopefully everything will fit! I also cleaned out a few kitchen cabinets to make room for her bottles. During that adventure I discovered that I had some canned goods with experations dates in 2001 and a can of coffee that my Dad bought on his first visit here (which would have been in like 2000!) - that tells you about how much coffee I drink LOL!

We're really excited about house hunting too, we still need to go see the bank about how much we can afford and what kind of rate we can get, but there's a lot on the market now here and prices are really coming down. I feel bad for the folks who have a house to sell these days, but I'm awfully glad the whole housing market drop thing is happening when I want to buy! Home prices here have been crazy high for the past few years, so it's nice to see things at a bit more reasonable level for buyers.

In work news, I'm starting a new case today - it's a zoning dispute. Ugh.