The best thing about Mondays is that they don't happen twice a week ;). Not alot to report in the Peanut Camp, I'll do my 33-week check in post on Wednesday (33 weeks, eep!) so I'll spare you most of the pregnancy/nursery details for now.
We spent the weekend doing family stuff -- drove down to Cape Cod on Saturday. Well, actually first we drive to Rhode Island to pick up my in-laws second car, so that NoodleGuy could do his parents a favor and bring it out to their new house on the Cape. The traffic was awful, we had poorly estimated that anyone wanting to go to the beach would have left by 10am at the latest, so we figured being on the road to the Cape around noon would be OK. However, we neglected to take into account that alot of NY/NJ folks drive up on Saturdays for their weekly rentals at the beach and noon would be primetime on the road for them -- most weekly rentals go from Saturday to Saturday starting at around 2pm. So for a 7-mile stretch leading to the bridge to the Cape, we sat - in separate cars - in bumper to bumper traffic, surrounded by NY and NJ license plates. Oh well, live and learn. We'll be doing this drive alot in the future, so now we now to avoid both Friday night and, unless we can get on the road before 9am, Saturdays until later afternoon. At least in the summer, I can't imagine traffic like this once beach season ends.
Anyhoo, the in-laws new house is beautiful. Not some palatial mansion on the beach, but a perfect Cape style house for them, and it was so nice that they got to choose everything in the house since they had it built. Total dream retirement house. It's about a mile from the town's private beaches, so walkable and also non-touristy. They're also surrounded by adorable New Englandy towns and we spent Saturday night in Mashpee, which has a fun little town common with bad playing and yummy food. All in all, a much more fun place to visit the in-laws than the middle of rural Connecticut (which was pretty, but nothing to do). I had lots of fun visions of bringing Bug to the beach out there next summer and just enjoying meandering with the stroller this fall. :)
In other news, I believe that my yeast infection is cured, yay! I did a 7-day treatment from last weekend to this past weekend. It wasn't as bad as I had feared - not suppositories but rather a cream you inject in your hoo hoo, much like Crinone for anyone whose used that. You did it at bedtime, so by morning, I barely even noticed it. The discharge is gone for the most part and so it the minor irritation. I had a little bit of discharge this morning, so I'll monitor that and am hoping that my OB will do a follow-up check at my appointment this Thursday.
I'll save the details for Wednesday's post but the registry stuff has been coming in fast and furious lately. Not only from my shower but from the $850 (ouch) follow-up that DH and I did after the shower to round out everything that we considered a necessity. We were getting nervous that we didn't yet have a few critical things like the crib mattress and car seat, I've seen too many early deliveries lately. But luckily the crib mattress came in one day (!!) -- as I've said before, Amazon's free super saver shipping rocks, never spend more for expedited! The car set is in transit and should arrive today or tomorrow and then I'll make the appointment with the fire station to get the car seat bases installed.
I think I also mentioned last week that DH's cousin would be staying with us for 2 weeks while she does a vet school rotation in Boston. She's one of my favorite of his relatives, so it's been fun since she arrived yesterday. Usually I'm a spazz about worrying about what to feed guests, especially long-term ones. But she's so laidback that I'm trying not to spazz out too much -- though I do have a cheat sheet of what we plan to cook each night - sometimes DH and I get lazy and just eat cereal for dinner (I know everyone does this) and I'm trying to at least pretend to guests that we eat a real meal for dinner, including vegetables! ;) Tonight's menu: Trader Joe's lobster raviolo with vodka sauce and a nice green salad.
Finally, I got my shower thank you cards in the mail this morning. I felt bad for not writing and mailing them out last week (my shower was 9 days ago) but I totally abhor writing thank you cards. I'm sure everyone does - it's a monotonous but necessary evil. I try to write something unique and heartfelt in each, which just slows down the whole process. But they're done - yippee! As I was writing them out, it occurred to me that my parents never once made us write, or even call, a thank you to anyone as we were growing up. My mom didn't grow up in this country, maybe that explains her and my dad was always clueless. But I wonder what our relatives ever thought of my sisters and I when they'd send the greatly anticipated $20 birthday bill and we would never acknowledge it. I cringe when I think of it! ;)
Growing up, we had to write thank you gifts for everything, and yearly (if not more) letters to our Grandparents (the ones that didn't live in town). It was definitely good practice for when we were older. My SIL sent out typed, form thank you letters for their wedding presents and Hubby and I were both aghast! They had a small wedding too - mostly family, and still couldn't take the time to write out a thank you note. Very sad.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, glad you had a good time at the beach, despite the crappy traffic. That summer traffic is why we don't ever go to Ocean City - it's only 4 hours away, but with beach traffic that can stretch from 6-10 easily. Doesn't matter how early or late you leave. So not worth it!
I know you'll love spending time with Bug at the beach :).
Wow, sitting in beach traffic sounds terrible. Glad you made it there safely and have something to look forward to with Bug next season.
ReplyDeleteAnd for the record, I dislike writing thank you notes as well and I never, ever wrote one growing up so you're totally not alone on that respect :)
oo.. sounds like you had fun! Just think of how much fun it will be next summer when you can take bug to the beach!!
ReplyDeleteYou did really well on the thank you cards!! I STILL have a few to write... but they are for people who gave me things after I had Eirik so its not quite so bad. I tell myself according to mrs. manners i have something like 3 or 6 months... so i'm okay. ;)
Happy you had a great weekend...minus the ugly traffic that is. Nice work getting your thank-you notes out! You better keep that pencil sharp, I've found it hard to keep up with the gifts that trickle in after Kylie was born.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you have all the baby garb under control. One thing you might check on is who in your area is "certified" to help install the car seat. We learned at one of our classes that while most people think fireman are certified in our area that's not necessarily true. The hopsital pointed us toward three people in our area who are though.
Eww I hate traffic and spending part of a weekend in traffic is not cool. It's awesome you can look forward to some great times with Bug at the Cape though!! That will be fabulous!! Looking forward to the 33 week update!!
ReplyDeleteI live on the Cape and I have to say that for some reason the traffic was even more horrible than usual this weekend! I went out on Saturday and then stayed in after that. There really are about a million people from NY and NJ right now!
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to the 33 week update!
I am glad to hear that you had a nice weekend. I am sorry about the traffice though. That is no fun! I used to go to the Cape when I was younger -- it has been ages since I have been there. It was a lot of fun -- lucky you to have such a great place to visit!!
ReplyDeleteI too look forward to hearing your 33 week update (yeah!!) I can not believe you are 33 weeks. So very cool!!
I'm the same way about you and the TY cards. Unenjoyable but it's the least I can do after getting a gift. It's the writing something significant and personal in each that really makes it tedious, but who wants to get "Thank you for the gift" card? Glad to have them done I'm sure!
ReplyDelete**same way AS you ABOUT the thank you cards. whoops :)
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