Outtings

Tuesday morning my friend invited me to Bible study at the church. I went, thinking it would be good to get out of the house and maybe have some daily structure and social connection, other than sitting my house alone all day. I figured there would be about 8-10 people. Nope! We get there and walk into a room with almost fifty women! I guess that 'connection' is available!
Wednesday morning I worked on my quilt quite a bit. As my first quilt ever, things proved difficult when trying to sew strips together both horizontally and vertically! Oh well, the baby probably won't notice the absolute mismatch of corners! The project kept me busy all afternoon at least!

Today, Friday, my eight month pregnant friend Sarah picked me up and we stopped at Starbucks for some pumpkin spice chai teas. Then, we headed over to the base to attend a Budgeting for Baby class. The class was actually very informative and organized: two things I did not expect! At the end of class, they give each expectant mother a gender neutral layette set worth $75.00 and we get to pick out a baby boy or baby girl blanket. Because I do not know what I am having, I chose a baby girl blanket. My mom made me a beautiful baby boy blanket last year and so if it is a boy I will be set! And now if it is a girl I am set! Sarah and I then went to Rumple New Skins, which is a baby store with some new and mostly gently used items. We had a good time just looking around. When we arrived back at my place, I was pleasantly surprised to see the co sleeper/bassinet which my mom had ordered for me was at my door! Sarah and I spent half the time trying to unzip the gear from the bag it came in! The zipper would not budge and for no obvious reason! Finally, (like 20 minutes later) we were able to get started! Two pregnant women bending, twisting, lifting--it would have been a site to behold! But together we managed to assemble into the co sleeping position, which is a rectangle with one side lowered that sits next to the bed. For our moving situation and timing, this is the perfect option for baby right now. We plan to look at cribs when we get to our new place in January and go from there. The co sleeper is very nice and very flexible as far as what you can do with it. We can use it as a bassinet, a small play pen, a traveling bed, or the actual co sleeper. I am excited for Dave to get home and see our hard work and beautiful new gift!

The Nebraska Corn huskers play the Washington Huskies tomorrow in college football, in Seattle. We thought about going but decided our big TV would be just fine, after seeing the tickets began at $125.00!! That is more than we would have to pay to go to an NFL game in Seattle! Go Big Red!
The Colts play on Sunday and Beaner has told me his/her eager anticipation for the game, in hopes that they turn there previous game play around and possibly step it up! So, this weekend will be the Beaner/Mommy/Daddy (?) football weekend. When the games are on, the Bean is kicking!