Week of pregnancy: 30 (7 1/2 months)

Time left to go:  2 1/2 months (yikes!)

Weight gained: enough, and that’s not a subject I like to discuss

Recent medical discoveries: negative on diabetes (hoo-ray), also negative on the Rh status (not so hoo-ray, it meant getting a shot, but not a big deal)

Baby supplies purchased: uh, that would be a big, fat zero

Baby supplies still left to purchase: I’m not sure of the number off the top of my head, but all of them is about right

Things still left to do: too many to count or remember

We couldn’t be more excited that our little girl will be here before you know it.  For a long time it felt like the end would never come, and now we’re in the home stretch.  It is also unbelievably frightening, and I wake up every morning in a sense of panic that we won’t be ready.  I know we will be, but this isn’t like packing for a vacation or starting a new job: this is a complete and absolute and permanent life change.  In 2 1/2 months, our lives will never be the same again.  But they will be better.  I can’t wait to meet her.