7 Days or could that be 17?

So it is now 7 days until my due date and the countdown has well and truly begun... although I must admit it is a little hard to have a proper countdown when you don't exactly know which day you are counting down to..... I just know though that it is getting close.

I've had lots of friends and family calling over the last few days especially to wish me luck and let me know that they are thinking of us which has been lovely. I've been getting lots of good advice about getting through labour and focusing on the outcome. I'm not so scared now... especially after my interesting Braxton Hicks on Tuesday morning and the way I handled them... although I don't know if that really compares as they weren't really painful just slightly uncomfortable... but I was just really scientific about them and a little bit detached. So if I'm like that when it gets to the real thing I'll hopefully be fine. I do however really have to get to making sure everything is in my bag ready for the hospital, I planned on doing it on Thursday but it just didn't end up happening as I was so busy.

I really stuffed up on Thursday and have learnt my lesson.... I just felt like there were all these things that I needed to do or things that just ended up happening during the day like....

• Chiropractor appointment
  
• Get a hair cut as this hadn't been done for ages and I had all these feral split ends
  
• Follow up on things that needed finishing like calling the electrician who I left a message to see when he would be here to finish (I still haven't heard back from him)
• Calling our Wedding photographer who still hasn't finished all our wedding photos even though we will have been married for 2 years in December. When she did come later that afternoon to bring me what I hoped would be all of it she hadn't done it right part of it now has to be redone. Arrrhhhh......
  
• Cook Jochen a nice dinner after his Day Shift which included doing some grocery shopping
  
• Help Kell with her Assignment by taking lots of digital photos of our ensuite
  
• Pick up stuff from the Chemist
• Tidy up the house
• Do some laundry
  
• Visit from Jochen's mum
  

Now this might not sound like very much but I was exhausted at the end of the day as I didn't get a chance to have the lay down that I really needed after two nights of being up to go to the loo every 1 1/2 to 2 hours..... arhhhh.... Anyway that night I was so over tired I ended up in tears and was achy all over (you should have seen me walking - I looked like I was a little old woman) and just couldn't get to sleep. So at about 11pm I got up and had a soak in the bath until 1.30am when I was finally able to go to bed and get some sleep after a slight detour via some biscuits. The lesson has however been learnt, I must not overdo things and have to at least have a bit of a rest during the day and as Jochen told me 'nothing was that important that it couldn't have waited another day or so', well all except Kell's assignment that is.

So yesterday I made up for it and did absolutely nothing. Not a thing. Can't even remember what I didn't do.... oh except we did go and pick up the floor tiles for the laundry after Jochen got home from work and I did follow up to see when we might be getting our curtains for the rest of the house - hopefully before next Friday. I suppose I'm trying to tie up as many loose ends as possible although this doesn't seem to be happening and I'm feeling a little frustrated, I'd just like to have so much finished before she arrives and I don't think that is going to happen - you would have thought nine months would have been enough time to get things done but it really hasn't.

Think it is probably time that I went and had a soak in the bath, read a book and relaxed - there are just too many things that I can't do anything about. Actually I'm even going to ring Jochen and see if he wants to go out for tea tonight... you never know it might be our last chance in a while.