Having a great family is awesome

Before I begin this entry, I need to make two shout outs to my lovely family members. First, to my Aunt Joyce who wrote me a very kind email to assure me that I was not totally insane regarding the paint colour. Apparently she recently had a similar experience. So either being nuts about paint colours runs in the family or it's actually a common issue. Either way, I'm still on the search for the perfect colour.

Next shout out is to my mom (who now reads the blog and DID indeed have a bird about me considering having a home birth). Yesterday while I was laid out on the couch with the worst migraine of my pregnancy thus far, I opened my email to find the best news. My mom is giving me her car for a graduation gift (I finished my MA in September, but the ceremony is next week). This is such a HUGE deal since I've been in a total panic about how I would ever manage to get a car seat in the back of my two door toyata, nevermind the stroller in the tiny trunk. Kris and I have been mulling over the possibility of buying a new car, but with me about to go on maternity leave and having to start paying my student loan back, it just didn't seem financially possible. My mom lent me her Honda CRV at Christmas time to bring back our gifts and I have been steadily falling in love with it ever since. I thought that next week when my mom came for my graduation I would have to end the love affair, but now it looks like it will continue!! This is beyond awesome. BEYOND.

In other news, I haven't updated about our past weekend and since there were some exciting baby events, I thought I should. On Friday Kris and I interviewed another Doula, and even though she charged less, we both felt like we had a better connection with Doula #1, Monique. So we decided to hire Monique and are now officially Doula-fied. We have our first prenatal appointment with her in a couple weeks and we're both looking forward to it. I think this is going to be a really great support for us.

Saturday morning we decided to search out a large Babies R Us so we could register before my baby shower. There is a BRU in Kitchener, but it's on the small side and we wanted to see the things we were adding to the registry in person, rather than having to guess by just looking online. We also wanted to go to Ikea because we know the dresser we want and are hoping to find it in the "as is" section. If you've been to my house you know that it's furnished almost entirely from the Ikea "as is" section and kijiji/craigslist. So Kris renamed the day "Yuppie Saturday" because apparently this is what he thinks yuppie's do on a Saturday.

We headed to the Ikea in North York to find a very disappointing "as is" section. We did see the dresser we want which just reconfirmed the fact that we want it. We'll wait until the room is painted (if that ever happens) before we buy it. After we went to the car and realized that I forgot to write down whether the BRU address was located on Lawrence Avenue East or West. Instead, we punched BRU into the GPS and took the closest route. We drove for about 30 minutes, at which point we commented that GPS always takes the strangest routes. We were out by an old train lot with truck stops and no stores in sight. This is when we realized that we had driven to the BRU DISTRIBUTION CENTRE!!! There was really nothing to do but laugh, so laugh we did.

A little further driving and we figured we were in Vaughn and so headed to the Vaughn Mills mall (second largest in Canada) because it has a BRU. However, I cannot walk into a wall without doing a full tour, which Kris was very unimpressed about since the place is HUGE and packed solid with people. By the time we got to BRU we were both exhausted. Thank goodness we had a list and registering took 20 minutes and then we could be on our way home.

Sunday was another busy day since it's usually spent cooking Kris's meals for the week (he works out of town Monday to Thursday). We hit up the grocery store, threw some ingredients in the slow cooker, visited his parents, came home and threw another recipe in the slow cooker and headed out for a Haiti relief concert at the River Run Centre with our friends Stuart and Michelle. Kris and I only managed to stay for the first half since we were both exhausted and I had heartburn like I've never had heartburn before. The University of Guelph choirs performed and the baby either LOVED them or HATED them. Tickey was kicking up a storm every time they hit a high note, making me giggle and my belly jiggle.

Since then, Kris has gone off to work and, like I mentioned, I have had a terrible migraine for the past couple days. A snowstorm started up this morning which explains why, since my migraine's tend to be triggered by changes in weather. What makes them more challenging than usual is not being able to take anything for them, besides tylenol which really doesn't do much. I took yesterday off work which, thanks to gravol, passed in a fog, but I'm back at work today...for now.