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What To Do at 35 Weeks

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35 weeks

I feel like I have a lot to do, but I am moving at turtle speed. I hate that feeling, although I literally move at turtle speed these days. I so very very understand why sleeping gets difficult only because moving is difficult. It's as if you are feeling muscles down there that no longer want to work, so you're left with this pressure sort of pain that doesn't let you roll over easy, get up easily, or walk easily. And let's keep ignoring the cankles that have even decided to plague me in the mornings now. Knock on wood, it could be worse. 

I still got the pedicure with my coworker for girls night and I do at least love my toes. It felt so good, I just wish I didn't have to explain the fluffiness. She understood. She said she has 2 boys and both pregnancies made her puff up from the knee down. Heaven forbid.

I still hauled up that huge stroller box 3 flights of stairs because I'm such an eager beaver. It's so awkward with a 20 pound belly. And then I put it together all by myself, although it was the easiest assembly outside of the cup holder. That darn cupholder! I finally got it last night by...well, I got it, let's just say that. So now it's perfect. Although I haven't tested it, it will be perfect! I'm very pleased so far with my $100 jogger. It folds in half, fits the car seat & won't break when I run over a rock.

I finished a photoshoot edit last night and just need to figure out how to burn it. Not sure why I'm having difficulties, but hopefully nothing a little on & off can't fix. Just one left! I'm super overdue on some thank you notes, but I'm getting there. And then there is that microwave & the vacuum. I'll probably vacuum before the microwave. Anyone else hate cleaning the microwave as much as I do?

Any way - today is devoted to narrowing down a place for us to live come May. We're moving if I haven't already mentioned it (because we love chaos). I'm so excited at the idea of moving (within a few miles of where we currently live). Reality is always retched. And apparently I'm an eager beaver because most don't know their May availability for another month, but it turns out I'm having a baby then, and I don't see Mr Smith touring five places in one day by himself. Maybe one, so I better have it narrowed down well. 

Plus it keeps my mind busy. Cause if my mind is busy I don't shove food in my mouth & think about a baby that I can't have yet. So that's it - this is what's going on at 35 weeks. 


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  1. Mary Jones16 March, 2013

    Watermelon worked great to reduce swelling for me:)... that and I would come home and stick my feet up. It may and be worse for me this time though! However in the hospital my legs were the size of balloons, Greg to this day laughs so hard everytime he thinks about it (I cry when I think about it!)

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    1. Mr Smith & I16 March, 2013

      I want watermelon so bad!! I'm so ready for summertime watermelon!! I've been craving it my whole pregnancy, ha! I hear drinking more helps you retain less, so watermelon makes sense. I also hear that people swell at the hospital & yeah - definitely not a confidence booster! And just awkward all around. I love husbands though.

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