The Home Stretch

The past month plus has been far too busy, thus it has been a while since my last post. So to bring you up to speed, we are in the final week heading to Andrea's due date. Next Thursday is the day, though we are currently thinking that our little girl will be arriving a bit late rather than early or even on time (whatever that means when it comes to babies). Her room is finished and ready for her, but it remains the only room in the house in such a state. Yesterday work started up again on the kitchen and living room. Cabinets are going in and flooring is getting done. There are a couple of snags, which by now we just expect, and so that final work should not be done until the week after the baby's due date. We will be moving back home tomorrow. Leaving behind the Residence Inn, which lost its charm about a month ago. The house should be ready enough to put the frig back in tomorrow (or so we hope) which will make things sort of livable for the time being. This has been a challenging adventure. I think that when all is said and done things will end up better than when this all started, but the process to get there much like the physical upheaval of a woman's body during pregnancy and childbirth is not the simplest of things to get through. Doing both at the same time would not be something that I would suggest anyone volunteer for. We look forward to showing off our little girl and introducing her to all our friends in the coming weeks.