The stroller arrived! EEE!!!  I set it up (after an embarrassing flurry of internet research as to why it was black – the answer being the crimson part is a LINER that was packaged inside the footmuff, sigh) and adjusted everything to the smallest setting so that I a) know how to do it and b) don’t have to fuck with it when I’m hugely pregnant.  It steers like a dream (as I knew it would) and it’s beautiful beautiful.  Dave came home and immediately wanted a lesson in all of its features, which I was happy to oblige, and he practiced opening and collapsing it.  He also has practiced steering it, and on more than one occasion this evening, he’s randomly strolled by, doing a loop of the first floor. You know, just for practice.

We got some groceries to get us to the weekend without having to venture out, and I got the lemon juice I needed for my dessert tomorrow. It snowed all day, dry little flakes that stuck to everything and made it feel very wintry.  I like those first snows, when you’re compelled to stay in, snuggle under a blanket and just hang out together, and having that before a 4day weekend (for BOTH of us — no games, no freelance, nothing) just brought that snuggliness a little early. 

We have thanksgiving at 2 (I hate early dinners, sigh) and the rest of the weekend we have a list of stuff to do in the house. Just when lawn season ends, too. I guess that’s a good thing?  Either way, we’re doing the reorg of the upstairs so that we have a place to put our accumulating baby stash.  It won’t be a set up nursery, but the crib is already assembled (and at my parents house) and we’d like to at least have a place to put that that isn’t the dining room or garage.  . . so we figured this is good a time as any to do all the heavy lifting and moving of stuff. PC and it’s accoutrements will go to the basement, sewing will go to the guest room, baby stuff to the uh, sewing room? Or, err, baby room? EEK.

And, in my geekiest move yet, I started a spreadsheet of what we’ve purchased, how much we’ve paid, and what the retail price is. There is also a "money saved" calculation, which makes me feel better about spending 200 on a ($300!) stroller, because when it all adds up, we’ve saved more than we’ve spent. It helps me sleep at night. And now, I have a MAC! All those other spring mamas are going to be so jealous. 🙂