So, you guys, in honor of Baby Girl’s impending arrival and a year of owning my domain and the holidays and just my general love for blogging and the internet and YOU…I’ve got something exciting coming up.

This is all you get for now, but I can assure you it’s going to be worth your while to come back and take a peek every single day between October 25th and November 1st.

Although feel free to skip Sunday the 31st if you don’t like mouse dolls knit by yours truly. My knitting may not be up to the quality you’ll get from the rest of the participants. Seriously, I’m so out of my league in my own giveaway it’s not even funny.

I’M SO EXCITED!!!

I was going to spend today being obscenely lazy, maybe writing a few long rambling blog posts, maybe taking Little Evan down to the Aquarium, maybe getting a Starbucks, maybe lying on the couch eating bonbons – you know, basically living the stay-at-home-mom life my husband THINKS I live every day.

Instead I woke up at 7 am with my heart pounding and dozens of to-do lists racing through my head. The reality of being 10 weeks away from a newborn hit me like a ton of bricks and suddenly the dog hair under the couch and the dishes in the sink seemed like national tragedies instead of just the life I’ve been comfortably living. Oh no, the guest towels haven’t been bleached! The Christmas wrapping paper isn’t organized! The paint cans in the basement aren’t sorted by color!! HOW CAN I BRING A LIFE INTO THAT KIND OF WORLD!?!?!!

My goal for today is to cross enough crazy off my brand new nesting to-do list that I still have time for a Starbucks. And maaaaaybe a quick trip down to the baby store in Mystic that sells UppaBaby strollers.

Because I simply CANNOT have a baby until I have a double stroller. Preferably a ridiculously overpriced one.