Little Better...

Well Jay's making progress. He's semi mobile now, we went in this morning to the doctor, they put him on 3 MORE different meds, so now he's up to 5 pills every 6 hours. Crazy. But they're working, as he's not been in near as much paint. However the downside of him not being in as much pain is that he thinks he can do too much. Currently he's at the new house painting our new doors, this morning he installed a new light in the m/bath and ripped off the countertops so we can replace them this evening when my brother comes over to help carry in the heavy new one. Adding to that list he's given the hall bath 3 coats of polyeurothane today so far (2 more to go before we're finished) and worked on the dining/foyer/kitchen floors as we have to go over the whole thing with mineral oil b/c there's lots of little glue spots left over from where we glued the floors down. Think he's overdoing it a bit? Considering he still can barely walk? *sigh*

I'm just hoping we don't have to go back to the ER any time soon. That was awful watching him go through all that pain. His pain killers are certainly helping in that deptartment...

Anyway. In addition to all that craziness, I semi set up the nursery - or at least the crib and changing table - wait until I post pics of Madelines new closet. LOL It's hilarious... and full. I've got it all in order though so I'll have a good idea of what I still need. Right now I really need socks (I didn't save any of Lizzy's as she wore them all out as she grew), sleepers (i have a couple from Liz but she wore those winter sleep sacks most of the time as it was cold by the time she fit into sleepers well), diapers (I have one tiny pack of newborn diapers - that ought to get me through about 2 days. LOL), wipes (no wipes yet) and I need to make her bumper for the crib, recover the glider and make the curtain over her window - those are late January/early February projects. But it'll get done eventually. Lizzy's room is pretty unfinished at this point... it's painted with new outlets and blinds, the closet shelves are up but no closet doors and nothing on the walls yet - I'm leaving the decorating until after we move in. I wanted to have it done before but I'm just too pooped right now. We're hoping to spend our first night in the new house this Saturday night! Once the hall bath floors dry for 72 hours we can put up the beadboard and it'll be ready to move in!

We decided to replace ALL the cabinets/countertops in the kitchen as they're just too nasty to paint and use in their current condition - so it'll be paper plates and plastic spoons for a month or so until the kitchen is finished - hopefully not too long though. It's an expensive project but will really make the kitchen stand out when it's finished.

ANNNYWAYS! Doctors apt. for me next week, more blood work and a tour of the hospital on the 10th! I can't wait! It's feeling closer and closer as each day goes by! I need to get Lizzy on film saying Madeline. It's so precious... she half butchers the name and it ends up sounding a bit French.... lol it's so sweet. So that's that. Jay has to go back in 10 days for an MRI on his back, the xrays showed 2 slipped disks but the inflamation is going down which was the main cause of his pain. He can visit the chiropractor for a quick fix for the disks - surgery is still in the future but the MRI will tell us how soon we have to go that route... I'm hoping not until at least summertime so Madeline will be sleeping through the night and it won't be such a big deal to take off 3 or 4 weeks of work. I'll update more as we know more.