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I've always pictured my last few days gestation as being very low key, peaceful, quiet days of doing nothing for the last time in the foreseeable future. I suppose I should have known better. It's not that my days are action packed necessarily. It's just that even walking to the bathroom (something that happens 4,568 times a day) takes so much effort that the though of actually doing anything productive just makes me feel like I need a nap. It seems like there is a lot going on in the Tschoepe household. Bella dog is in heat which makes her grumpy and makes her 10 times more high maintenance and she's still got one week to go. Tucker cat had his annual teeth pulling appointment and had 6 teeth extracted so he's hurting and needy and requires meds for a week. (He has a rare cat condition in which tarter build up on his teeth causes severe reactions in his gums and really eats away at his tooth enamel. It's very painful, and he can not go without a cleaning or he starves himself.) I was going to do something for myself this week and have my hair died back to boring brown until I got the bill from said teeth cleaning and extraction. The $411 dollars first made me cry and then made me look forward to the day when our cat is completely toothless and no longer requires a cleaning. I know, I'm evil. But we're a one income family now how the hell are we supposed to afford that? My friend Drew and I are being showered together on Saturday. I'm very much looking forward to it. However my mom, my fav cousin and her daughter and mother will all be staying with us for the weekend which means I have to get the house clean enough to be presentable. I also have to go get groceries which feels like a Herculean task in itself. I keep debating whether I should put a dent in our pocketbook by going to the regular grocery store thereby saving my body and sanity; or put a dent in my body and sanity by going to Super Wal Mart from hell and saving a couple of bucks. It's quite a toss up. My mom is actually staying for a month or so to help us with the not-so-little one. We are so lucky to have her help while we get the hang of things. We're both really looking forward to having her here. Maybe I could get her to help me clean.