Thankful Thursday

Today I am thankful for clean houses. My house is almost never clean and when it is clean it does not last long. With the pregnancy the house even more rarely gets a deep clean. The last two days I have been feeling better and combined with the fact that we are hosting a party on Friday for some friends that are moving soon - the perfect storm could arise and make it possible for all the elements in the earth to align and my house could get a deep clean. I started with the half bath. I am embarrassed to say it but it was nasty. You know it is time to clean the bathroom bad when the white porcelain of the toilet is starting to look more yellow than white. And thanks to Lyman even the outside of the toilet was changing colors. The sad thing is that I clean the toilet pretty often and it only lasts 3 days or so before it is gross again. Everything in there now is sparkling white and shiny and smelling like chemicals.

Yesterday we also attacked the downstairs playroom. The kids had pretty much destroyed all sense of order down there and it was time to dump out buckets and reorganize the toys. I am thankful today that Andy was home and could help with that huge task. We took before and after pictures of that one but looking at the pictures I am sad to say that the before picture isn't as bad as it has been in the past. You will notice though on the after picture that cleaning the basement was quite a good idea because we found our kids again in the process.

BEFORE

AFTER

Today I attacked the kitchen (well to be honest I started on the kitchen yesterday- it was bad enough it needed two days) Now the floors are all clean of sticky junk from under the kids chairs, the stove is shiny and bright and smelling like oven cleaner and the counter tops are completely empty of anything. I did every dish in the house and I am currently without a dirty dish. YEAH!

I am thankful for a comment I recieved yesterday at the park. A lady from church heard me say something about the pregnancy and said "oh good, I was wondering if you were pregnant but I didnt want to ask". She had just relialized I was pregnant and I was in shock. I looked at her and then I looked at my ever impressive girth and then I looked at her again! I told her it was nice to have people "wonder" if I was pregnant because I was feeling pretty huge and its pretty obvious that I am pregnant with the size of my mid-section. I have never gotten a "wonder if you were pregnant" statement at 26 weeks before. I should post a picture of my belly so you can see how totally impressive a comment like that would have been to me considering what I really look like. I am actually wondering if she might have depth perception problems - cause I am totally sticking out there.

I am also thankful today for the good laugh I had when I opened my weekly email from the pregnancy website and saw the diagram of the woman's profile that shows the baby inside and her hand on the small of her back. I laughed at how even in the drawing they made sure to pose the woman in the typical Hollywood version of pregnant women - hunched back with their hands on their backs. Also I was pleasantly surprised to see that I have reached the "less than 100" days left of my pregnancy point! YEAH! 100 days might sound like a lot to those of you not pregnant but to a pregnant woman that sounds like heaven is in my reach because when you start the pregnancy with the middle 200s you feel like death might come sooner than that baby.