2 weeks to go...

...but hopefully she'll come sooner!!
So, today I hit the 38 week mark, taking me that much closer to seeing my little baby. I'm so excited and I simply cannot wait.
I've been in a lot of pain lately, and so it makes me that much more anxious to have this baby. She dropped last Sunday morning and ever since then my pains have been magnified. Before I always had the backaches and the horrifically swollen legs and feet, but now the back pain has exploded into full-on back-and-stomach achy-fires that feel as if my body is going to suddenly implode under the crippling pain. I've found that I literally can't do ANY housework anymore. Any bending, twisting, reaching, squatting movement causes my back excruciating amounts of pain. What sucks is that despite this pain, I can't keep myself from doing housework...I see things in disarray and I just HAVE to get them in order...it's like my brain is on crack! Ask Mike, he's gotten pretty frustrated with me lately. I'll clean-clean-clean all day long, and then when he comes home I'll be so sore that I literally can NOT walk. I just sit in the chair and wince from the pain. Mike's been trying to help me out a lot with housework lately (well, whatever is left over when he gets home, which is usually dishes after dinner), and I couldn't be more grateful for his help, he's a total life-saver!
I hosted a Relief Society activity at my house last night, showing some of the ladies how I prepare my biscuit casserole. I had taken it easy all of that day, going to my mom's house to visit and help out with making party favors for my shower so that I wouldn't be tempted to seed our backyard (yes, the other day, after I had been vacuuming and cleaning and doing laundry all morning, I had the strong urge to go in the backyard and level our grass area and plant our grass seed, but thankfully my good senses prevailed before I made it out the door) or do any other crazy housework, so that I wouldn't be sore for my demonstration later on that night. I thought taking it easy would help, but it turns out the preparation of the food and demonstration alone were enough to set my back on fire and start up a series of very painful contractions that only ended after I fell asleep last night. Sooooo, as a result, Mike has put me on strict "bed rest" today. I'm not allowed to do ANY house work and if I do, there will be definite Hell to pay. So, not wanting to invoke the wrath of my loving husband, and thanks to some prior plans, I'll be heading to my mom's again today to work on more favors and things for my baby shower. Luckily for Mike, my mom's real gung-ho about making sure I don't overdo myself in the SLIGHTEST, and mostly because she doesn't want me going into labor before my shower on Saturday. ;) I don't blame her, she's put a LOT of effort into orchestrating this shower, and I'm excited to see how it goes. The only thing I've been allowed to be a part of is making the favors and some of the snacks for the party, and only because she really needs the help. Stephanie, my beautiful sister-in-law, has been awesome enough to help out my mom with stuff too, despite the fact that she has two little boys (one JUST turned one year about a month ago and the other is 2 months old) AND just had her gallbladder taken out. She's such a trooper!! I really admire her, I don't know how she does it!
Sooooo, that's that. The one thing I'm not looking forward to today are the severely swollen feet and legs that I'm bound to acquire. I've found that the days when I'm not crazy-active all day, my feet swell to monstrous proportions, and on the days when I'm so active that I feel like I'm a million-year-old lady by the end of the day, my legs only swell slightly, so that I almost don't notice the swelling. So basically right now I can't win. But, I do have to say that I have been loving being pregnant, despite it all, and will be excited when I can experience it again. But, for now, I'd just like for this little beauty-bean to be born so she can be a bigger part of Mike's and my life. I'm so excited, I just can't wait!!