D-Day - 40wks 0days

Today was Baby Kee's official due date, but she didn't seem to notice. Her daddy finally FINISHED THE BATHROOM today!!! And her mama was very excited about it. So excited, in fact, that we just sat in the bathroom talking for a long while before heading to bed. Eventually, we looked at each other and asked, why are we sitting in the bathroom?

It was a long and satisfying day--I got up a little after six and it was cool enough outside that I could no longer stand to look at the jungle that has become our front yard. We have some very neat plants out there, but who could tell through all the weeds? I clipped the flower stalks off of the lamb's ears, which have spread nicely to cover most of the front of the house, and pulled up two large yard bags full of weeds, some of them as tall as young trees. We haven't had rain but once in almost two months now, and it seems like everything that I want to grow has sat still, not dying, but not growing. The grass and weeds in the flower beds, though, have taken off and thrived. I shouldn't say everything. I do have a lot of drought tolerant plants, and my succulents are blooming beautifully. My main gardening philosophy is if it needs babying, it doesn't grow in my yard. I tend to just plant things and let them go, and I am impressed that I haven't lost any of my little green babies in this hot dry spell. My front yard is full of fun herbs like lavender, rosemary, sage, chives, thyme, mint, fennel, lemon verbena, evening primrose, and lemon balm, and none of them seem to mind growing in these conditions. My favorite plant this year has been a very aggressively growing butterfly bush right outside the front window that has become a lunch buffet to bazillions of butterflies this summer. Sammy Cat loves it, too! She sits in the window and watches and paws at them, and then she gets smart and goes outside to paw at them, and they leave for a bit. Luckily, she hasn't had much success hunting them.

So, several hours in the morning spent bending over and squatting amounted to a very sore me, so I got a shower and laid down this afternoon for what Bahari calls a "body crash." A little before 5pm, I woke up and my bathroom had been transformed by the last bits of paint touch up into a finished work of art. Pictures will come tomorrow, I promise!

Dan took me out for dinner to celebrate--and there's so much we have to celebrate! His new business is actually providing for us, my new job lets me stay home, the bathroom is DONE (minus some decorative touches that I still have to decide on), and this baby is going to be here any day now! I can't tell you how blessed we feel right now. How amazingly cared for and blessed... and all I can do is sit here and sigh and thank God for it all.