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30 weeks update/our weekend (in bad cell phone pictures)

i hit 30 weeks on saturday. i’ve been terrible about documenting this pregnancy… i’m so uncomfortable with other people taking pictures of me that my weekly belly photos have been reduced to blurry camera phone snapshots in our bathroom. 

i know i’ve mentioned it before, but my nurse manager has been on medical leave for the past 2 months and i’ve been playing boss lady in her absence. she returns to work this tuesday, and as much as i have enjoyed the extra responsibility and income, the additional hours have taken a toll on my body. i’m mentally and physically exhausted and really looking forward to taking it easy the next 10 weeks, while still working my normal tues/thurs nursing shifts up until my due date.

i wish i could say that i’ll spend this time getting ready for charlie’s arrival, but the truth is, we have nothing left to do. we visited the outlets in rehoboth a few weeks ago and purchased clothes, socks, and hats in NB and 0-3 months- all 20-75% off. i refuse to pay full price for items he’ll wear 2-3 times and then grow out of. i also picked up a huge stack of my favorite blankets (again, at a discount- $10-$15 off retail price) since the ones we used for madeline are too girly. other than that, we have everything we need. advice to 1st time parents- register for/purchase everything in gender-neutral colors for baby #1 so you can recycle products. we plan on reusing the necessary baby items and eliminating the excess. i’m proud to admit that i’ve come a long way in 18 months and have finally adopted andy’s “less is more” approach to parenting/life. not gonna lie, it’s so refreshing! 

over the past 30 weeks, there hasn’t been one second that i’ve doubted my/our ability to raise 2 children under the age of 2. together, andy and i are a parenting powerhouse. however, i did have a minor meltdown a couple of weeks ago after a frustrating day of running errands with madeline left me wondering how i was going to function outside of this house with 2 babes all by myself. part of my job as ‘house manager’ is to make sure that (most) responsibilities are taken care of by the time andy gets home from work so we can spend as much time together as possible. he works so hard (unbelievably hard) during the day that i want him to come home and relax, play with the kiddos, not have to worry about anything. i really, REALLY don’t want to wait until 6:30-7pm/weekends to run to the grocery store/bank/etc and i definitely can’t sit at home all winter- i’ll go stir crazy. i cried to andy (oh, hey hormones) and after going through a few scenarios that concerned me, we decided that the perfect double stroller would make things easier on all of us. 

there aren’t any baby superstores in wilmington- if i need to purchase supplies or big ticket items, i usually have to drive into newark or hope target carries it… thank god for amazon mom!! we do have a lot of fancy baby boutiques, so we visited oranges and lemons to test-drive some of the best strollers on the market. big, BIG mistake. we fell in love with a stroller that is totally, 100% out of our price range, but we’re resourceful and determined to make it ours between now and october… hopefully without selling an organ on the black market. once we purchase a double stroller, we’ll be all set for charlie’s arrival.

after stroller shopping and chores, it was time to get ready for the taylor swift concert in philadelphia. ((hi, i’m lindsay and i adore taylor. judge as you will.)) my in-laws gifted me with tickets for my birthday back in january, and i’ve been staring at the actual tickets in my wallet every.single.day since before i was pregnant with charlie. even though it was just my SIL cindy and i going, andy and i had some friends over for a cookout before the concert. the second madeline caught me in my red cowboy boots, she insisted on wearing hers… 

the concert was incredible. i saw her fearless tour last year so i wasn’t too surprised at myself when i reverted back to my 5th grade self, swaying alongside all the other 10 yr olds singing into their makeshift glowstick microphones.

sunday was spent devouring blueberry pancakes, phillies baseball, and lots of couch time, recovering from all the walking/standing/dancing i did saturday night. as you can see from the pictures below- taken sunday morning at breakfast with grandma and grandpa- madeline refuses to take off her cowgirl boots. like mother, like daughter! so adorable. 

hope you all had a great weekend as well, can’t wait to catch up on my tumblr dash and see what kind of trouble you got yourselves into… 

xo

lindsay