Snow Day

My first day of my last month before my maternity was to start turned into a snow day.  We dug out the car and started driving to work however I got stuck trying to go up the hill under the bridge at Greenwood.  It kinda freaked me out considering that the bus in front of me could not get up the hill either and cars were fishtailing all over the place.  We figured it was best for me and baby to stay home for the day;  Geoff took over the wheel and got us home safely.  What would have been a 5 min drive on a beautiful day took 30 mins.

I decided to make the best out of my day at home...

1 st project:  finishing putting our custom mirror together.  Almost done just need to let the paint dry and then place the hanging brackets on the back. (Before any of you freak out the paint we are using is zero to low VOC and I called mother risk and they said it was perfectly safe to paint as long as I wear a mask.)

2nd project: Baking, I made 2 kinds of coconut macaroon style cookies, rosemary bread and in the bread machine there is sunflower seed bread.

3rd project: cleaned up email, google reader, finished adding the last few items we need to our registry, filled stuff electronically.

4th project: dishes; this quickly got changed into unclogging a sink that took about an hour.  We used 1 cup backing soda and poured vinegar on it until it stopped fuzzing chased it down with boiling hot water and then used the plunger to clear everything up.  Repeat a few times until problem solved.

5th project: dishes once again...

Registry

I was asked a few times what items we need the most from the registry.  So I decided to flag a few items that we will need for baby's arrival with *** in front of each of them.   However all items on the registry are things we decided baby Wiseman would love :-)

The registry

Some of our family members have already started purchasing presents for baby. To ensure that we minimize the chance of getting duplicates or if some of you are wondering what to get for baby please check out our registry:

http://www.findgift.com/cgi-local/Registry.cgi?m=View&rid=31911224163438437293029


You can also get to the registry by clicking on the registry button on the right had side of this blog.

here is the quick tour as to how the registry works.

1. The item description is in black bold
2. The store were we saw it at is in black
3. The blue lettering is additional information that you may find helpful
4. In red to the left hand side you can see the quantity we want of an item
5. If you click the buy online button this will bring you to a link with an image of the item you do not need to buy it from this place this is mostly to make things easier by helping you out with a visual picture
6. The price you see indicated in brackets after the store is an estimate only
7. THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART ONCE YOU DECIDE TO SPOIL OUR BABY AND BUY SOMETHING PLEASE COME BACK TO THE WEBSITE AND CLICK ON THE SMALL SQUARE TO THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE ITEM. THIS WILL BRING YOU TO ANOTHER PAGE WERE IT WILL ASK YOU TO ENTER THE QUANTITY YOU PURCHASED AND A CODE WORK THE CODE WORD CAN BE ANYTHING THIS IS JUST SO YOU CAN COME BACK AND UNDO WHAT YOU JUST DID. ONCE ALL IS FILLED UP CLICK ON SHOW GIFT AS PURCHASED BUTTON. DOING THIS WILL UPDATE THE REGISTRY AND ENSURE OTHER DON'T GET TEMPTED TO BUY THE SAME ITEM AS YOU.

I would like to point out that we don't expect anything for anyone we just want to make life a bit easier for those of you who want to spoil baby.

Feel free to pass the registry info along to anyone that you know that is inquiring about baby gifts.

Thank you in advance if you plan to spoil our little one.

Love Pierrette, Geoff and baby.

Day 70

This morning we bought a rocking chair for the nursery. It's a bentwood chair with caning on the seat and back, it came with a cute bamboo foot stool.

Some you have been asking me if we are going to register, we have not decided yet mostly because we have not yet seen one store that has tons of items that we want. However I have started a list on "wishlistr" to keep track of items that we are interested in:

http://www.wishlistr.com/baby-wiseman

My extreme fatigue seems to be gone unless I have a bout of insomnia.

Baby and me are well and off to do some organizing in the basement.