Halfway there

We have hot water!  This is a major accomplishment after 12 days without any.  They are coming back tomorrow to finish and install the new furnace and then we'll have air conditioning.  We are moving up in the world, huh?  Even though the heat has finally broken, for now anyway, I am so excited!  It's been a crazy two weeks.  We moved back home today after two days at the hotel.

In lieu of doing school work, I assembled one of our cribs today.  This was just an exercise to make sure the mattress I got fits properly (it fits like a dream BTW).  So I ordered the second mattress while it's on sale, but will wait on ordering the other crib until we have the nursery wall up and walls painted and we can start putting things together, later in September.  I also needed to see how far the drop is from the bottom of the mattress (from the highest setting) to the floor (15"), so I can order the correct amount of crib skirt fabric and get started on those at some point in the near future.

I also just bought our tickets to NYC for later in August.  I can't wait!  We still have to decide where we are staying while we are in the Hamptons, though we are staying with my sister and her boyfriend at their new place while we are in Brooklyn.  It will be so nice to see them and to get away.  It's always nice to have something to look forward to. :)

Day 10

Well, the good news is that we've finally decided on the new systems and hope to have them installed this week (and on stilts!).  The bad news is it's the hottest week of the year, again, and after a terrible night last night, we are now staying at a hotel until the heat breaks on Wed.  You don't really realize how much you rely on something like A/C until you don't have it.  This pregnant lady is much happier now.  It just got to be too much, the house is absolutely sweltering and the humidity is downright tropical, with the heat indices over 100.

16 weeks!

We have babies the size of avocados!  I love avocados! :)  It's crazy how much I'm feeling them.  I can only imagine what it will be like when they get bigger.  Hang onto your hats!

Not much new to report on the baby front and I guess I should be happy my biggest complaint is that we are in day 7 of no hot water and no A/C.  Not fun when you are pregnant and hot.  We finally got the basement cleaned up, which DH did almost entirely by himself, and my contribution was washing all of our Christmas ornaments (since stupid, i.e. me, didn't put the tote back where it belonged in January).  The crazy thing about those Rubbermaid storage totes is that it doesn't take much water to make them float and then they tip over and then goodbye goes the waterproof container (since the lid is not water tight).  Oh well, I managed to salvage all but a couple.  Thank goodness DH was home all week from work, I'm not sure how we'd have managed otherwise.  It looks like his office will be closed next week too, as they got flooded again from last night's storm (though we were dry).  I'm ready for it to stop raining any time now.

We are hoping to make a decision tonight on all the quotes we've gotten this week on a whole new furnace and water heating system since both were completely killed by the flood.  Goodbye $5K. :'(  Hopefully we can get the install scheduled soon and I can stop showering at the clubhouse pool locker room (though I'm awfully glad we have that).  I spent this afternoon at the mall, which was a wonderful break from the house.  I have realized that as long as you have power, life goes on.  I can still do laundry, dishes, work, and thank goodness we have a refrigerator that works. 

Happy Weekend!