Eight Weeks to go

It's late on Sunday and I'm feeling rather uninspired tonight.  But I talked to Dad earlier and he said he was going to log on to catch up with the blog -- so I suppose I should keep the streak alive. Here ya go, Dad!

The only thing more colorful than a Creative Kidstuff store -- my shirt!

This week was fast, busy, hectic and anything but relaxing.  I don't really know why, it was fairly ordinary from what I recall - other than my that my mother and I got the crazy idea to have a garage sale.  We have had stuff piling up in the basement for the last two years -- things in boxes that have never been unpacked from Colorado Springs and New York City.  It was time to unload.  The weather on Friday was not wonderful, patches of rain and clouds on and off, but we did quite well.  I posted a few ads on craigslist, which turned out to work.  Our neighbors also had a sale on baby clothes, books and such -- so we attracted all sorts of people.  Saturday was a sunnier day, but the wind was a little much.  By 2pm we were at our wits end and closed up shop after hauling in a few hundred dollars.  Not so bad.  I think we are done with the garage sale business for a while now though. I was in a wind-blown, sun-dazed coma by Saturday night and I think I may have managed to stay up until 9pm -- maybe.

This morning I participated in a fashion show at Creative Kidstuff on Grand Avenue. Fifty very pregnant ladies and their guests milled about the store and sampled local goodies from cupcakes to baby food at the first annual baby shower event, hosted by Creative Kidstuff and sponsored by various local mom-oriented businesses.  At 10:15 I did my little runway walk in an outfit from Hot Mama -- a fun little boutique store that caters to moms and moms-to-be.  I did not love my outfit -- but it is was far better than the WHITE SKINNY JEANS that they tried to put me in at first.  All in all, it was a fun time.  I won a door prize (a baby feeding kit thingy) and also received a gift certificate for Creative Kidstuff for participating in the show. I also drank two glasses of orange juice and ate a tiny cupcake just before listening to a nutritionist talk about sugar highs and sugar lows.  Mmm, cupcakes.

In the afternoon we went to Loring Pasta Bar for a little Mother's Day celebration -- because mom has decided (for the second year in a row) to head out to California to spend Mother's Day with her favorite child and his cute, darling, adorable family.  Next weekend Carrie and I will have to celebrate Mother's day on our own -- again! Kidding, mom -- have fun in sunny CA!

Tomorrow morning I am going to get a much needed, much overdue massage.  I can't wait. I am feeling tired, stretched, tight and generally discombobulated.   I am hoping it will help me get some barrings on my body -- I seem to be running my belly in to things lately -- which is really awkward when those things are people.