A full weekend

[judecorp]

Wow, what a whirlwind. After getting home at 1ish AM on Friday morning and heading into work on Friday, I picked Jen up at her job and we drove on to Boston to crash a staff party at my old job. I was excited to see everyone I used to work with and only a couple of people knew I was coming, so I knew that would be fun. AND IT WAS! My old boss (the host) was completely surprised that I showed up and for a while it was like it was Jen's and my party instead of the work party. Everyone was asking about the house and the baby and saying how much they missed me and it was like being the belle of the ball for a little while. And of course my former boss makes incredible food - lasagne and salad and garlic bread and four different kinds of desserts. Mmmmm. We stayed and closed the party down around 11 and then headed to Marti Maraschino's place to spend the night.

After sleeping fitfully on Marti's guest bed, we got up and took Marti to breakfast at Sorella's. Mmmm. I ate far too many carbs and thought I was going to die. The plan was to drop Marti off, head to Liz and Matt's place to pick up some tools we lent them a while back, and then head to Chris and Jess's place to entertain Chris and Veronica for a bit and pick up a bunch of baby stuff they were going to lend us.

We got the tools, caught Chris right as he was bringing V back in for a walk, and we got chatty. At one point we decided we should do some lunch and Chris brought up the good idea to call Carrie and William and see if they were around. They were, so we went there to get them and little Katherine and then we all went and ate dim sum. I totally gorged which is probably not the best idea ever (man was I feeling slugglish!) and then we drove back.

Man, I'm tired, but I'm so glad we went.

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And talk about loot! Chris and Jess lent us their infant swing, a floor gym, a snap-and-go stroller for an infant car seat, a HUGE bag of baby clothes that Veronica is done with, and a bag of Jess's maternity clothes. Carrie and William passed off a bag of clothes that may have gone from Jenn and Wiley to Jess and Chris to them, so we ended up with MORE clothes. THEN when we got home we had our package from estrange, including the breast pump that we bought from her and some extra goodies like some other clothes, a blanket, and some other assorted things. It was like a baby explosion in our living room for a little bit until I got it all put away - but I guess that's just a glimpse into things to come.

This morning we stopped up at a house in Hatfield to pick up a stroller from Freecycle as well. All of a sudden it's like we're really having a baby!

Comments

[angelhsent.livejournal.com]

hehe it seems more real when the belly starts to stick out and you get all the baby stuff.yay I am so happy for you guys

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

It's starting to get exciting!

[indigodove.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you had a good weekend :-)

When are you due? I feel like I should know, but I can't remember...

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

4th of July!

[estrange.livejournal.com]

So glad you got everything! I wanted to send more but couldn't fit much else in the box! I would of sent you my maternity clothes but sounds like you have quite a lot of it so far!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I scored some luck with friends and maternity clothes. Don't worry about what you sent - you sent a lot! Thanks!

[aminahfiddler.livejournal.com]

You'll be getting stuff from me as soon as I put it in a box. Yea yea, I know I should have gotten out last week but I was lazy.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Don't even sweat it! I mean it!

[aminahfiddler.livejournal.com]

Steve dropped it off at the UPS store today. We shipped it ground so it will get there soon.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Can't wait! I will let you know when it arrives.

[skatured.livejournal.com]

But you are still going to have a baby shower even though you are already getting lots of loot, right? I hear those egg games are a riot.

(Actuallly, I have no idea what the egg games are...which is why you need to have one and report.)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I think that we are possibly having a baby shower. I wasn't sure at first since we just moved here but I think some friends are going to do it.

I don't know too much about shower games but I am kind of scared of them. I've only ever been to one baby shower.