So, this afternoon I go to the doctor for my 38th week checkup. I’m going weekly now until baby comes. All weekend I have been having some pains, aches, nausea, and other possible labor symptoms. Apparently none of them amounted to much though because after being checked by the doctor he says I’m sitting on go but nothing has happened so far.

So now we play the waiting game. Unfortunately I’m not very patient. Countdown 12 more days till due date. I have myself a new game though. Being a person who loves lists, challenges, goals, etc… I’ve decided to make a game of it and decide on 12 projects I need to “tackle” before baby arrives. On the way home from the doctor I was brainstorming but didn’t have a paper or pen available so I had to try to remember them. In no particular order:

1. Prep Brady’s clothes, bottles, hospital bag, car seat, etc.
2. Try to clean this house up some.
3. A Blog Project
4. Writing an article to submit to a Christian print publication (requires researching publication, writing the article, etc).
5. Blogging for a client.
6. A special report for a client.
7. Catch up on Baker & Lily’s Scrapbooks.
8. Enter June financial info into Quickbooks.
9. Revamp business plan.
10. Revamp daily routines, business control journal.
11. Work through a Mom Masterminds resource.
12. Work on a floor plan for the home remodel we want to do soon.

So folks that should keep a gal busy right? Plus I have a meeting with my pastor tomorrow to talk about VBS evaluations and such, Wednesday night we have church, Thursday night we’re going to my parents for supper and to chat about home remodel with my dad (the architect), Friday is 4th of July and hubby is cooking ribs for us and his parents and my brother in law, Saturday night I have a cookout with the Tomgirls, Sunday is church. That should keep me busy for at least this week until my next Doctor’s visit on Monday.

Ok, ladies, I’m really impatient and can easily “dwell” on an issue so help keep me straight. Thanks.

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With every pregnancy I’ve had, this of which is number three, I have enjoyed almost the entire experience. Of course the early days when you feel nauseous and dizzy were not fun but they were over soon enough, but the later days when the big day is potentially “any day now” are far worse to me.

I have NEVER yes you read never gone into active labor or full labor on my own. I have been induced twice. Once prior to ever experiencing a contraction, which resulted in being in the hospital for over 24 hours before holding my first born.

With Lily, I began having these “braxton hicks contractions” as they called them on a Saturday, and they continued all day Sunday, until finally hubby took me to the hospital. They discovered I was dehydrated and put me in a room in the Labor & delivery area and put me on monitors and ran an IV for fluids. I stayed overnight before being released. On Tuesday I was having the same issues so I returned to the hospital but again was sent home. Thursday I finally had a doctor’s appt. was checked and was 3 cm dialated so they set me up to be induced the next morning at 6 am. I had Lily girl at 1:14 pm that afternoon.

This time around, I have had braxton hicks (I am assuming) for several days now. They will stay around for a few hours at irregular intervals and then disappear. However, this morning I got up at 4 am to come to the recliner from the bed for back pain relief, finally ending up on the couch asleep until 7 but even after getting up and moving around my back pain has not left. I have had a few irregular braxton hicks (I’m assuming) so I’m hoping that the signs are increasing. However, I also have some nausea, which is also new.

Whatever the case, Brady is due 2 weeks from today. I am hoping that I really don’t have to experience this for 14 MORE days, but only God knows!

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My husband loves being a daddy. He wanted to be a daddy from the day we got married I think, probably before that. I put him off for a while, so he finally said he just HAD to be a daddy before he was 30. I was pregnant with my son on his 30th birthday so he wasn’t far from meeting that goal. Now he is daddy to 3, technically, as baby #3 will be born in a month or so. Here’s some pics of daddy and babies, and more of the babies that he helped to make so cute!

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Yes, it’s true. I’m starting a review blog. This is something I’ve been interested in since I saw the first one. Not sure whose it was but I was always intrigued by them. Then, lately I have gotten a few requests for me to do a review for them. So I thought, “why not”. Being someone who likes a good project, I thought I”d begin working on this in my “spare” time. Not that I have much of it for now, but I hope to soon.

Just to give you an idea about the types of things I am looking to review or that would be a good fit for me, areas of interest include, but not limited to:

• baby items,
• toddler items,
• preschool items,
• organizing items,
• Christian items,
• WAHM items,
• blogging related products/services,
• scrapbooking items,
• cooking products.
• books.

Click here for a PDF of my stats for May to give you an idea of what type of traffic my mom blog receives. To learn more about me and my interests read My 100 Things and About pages.

The reviews will be posted here, my new review blog.

I will be available to begin reviews as of July 1st. Be the first to be reviewed, begin submitting items, products or services for review immediately. I look forward to hearing from you.

To submit reviews email me at reviews @ lifefrommylaptop.com (no spaces) or fill out the following form here.

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Yay, I have to brag. Well, not exactly brag because I think any Christian blogger can be featured here if they just fill out the info. But I was excited none-the-less.  Hop on over to Christian Women Online and see my spotlight.

Also, later today I will be getting a “makeover” yes, I’m changing my blog’s theme AGAIN!  This time it is a custom design by a gal I met over at the Mom Bloggers Club. I just loved her work and had to have one, plus I had said I was going to get a new one after the baby came since my current theme has a pregnant mama on it.  Well, it’s just coming a little early and with all I have going on in the next month or so it’s probably a good thing I do it now or it might not get done.  So, I hope you like it.  I have to say thanks to Sarah at Real Life Designs for the awesome design which should be up soon.

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