TO-DO

A few things on my mind lately...

TO-DO:

• Pick up H&M order from post office
• Send in Ellos online order
• Buy Ørjan's birthday gifts online(pt.1)
• Send/reply to emails
• Find wedding outfit and shoes
• Find wedding outfit for Sophie
• Sophie's passport photos
  
• Buy Susanne's wedding gift
• Organize Magnus' old clothes for May Britt
• Organize and pack away the office
• Do laundry
• Clean out fridge
  
• Empty cupboards and organize kitchen for pre-move
• Get haircut!!! (Appointment next week...)
• Upload photos and order prints for mom
• Get Sophie's passport
  

JUNE/JULY 2008 SCHEDULE:

• ##.06.08 - Moving to the new house
• 06.06.08 - Doctor's appointment (11:30)
• 10.06.08 - Meeting at the bank
• 19.06.08 - Sophie's pediatrician appointment
• 19.06.08 - Baby group
  
• 21.06.08 - Susanne's Wedding
  
• 12.07.08 - Shopping in Oslo and visiting friends
• 13.07.08 - 18.07.08 - Prague vacation!
• 19.07.08 - Passport/Canadian embassy in Oslo
• 31.07.08 - Pediatritian appointments and vaccinations for the kids

Will edit this later...

What's Next

Now that things have calmed down and holidays are over I'm looking forward to getting a headstart on this list. My goal is to achieve and complete this list by the end of April or mid-May, but with two kids, some new projects I've insanely taken on, and all the appointments we have scheduled I wonder if I'm being too hopeful. At least I can be enthusiastic, right?

• Complete framework painting in our bedroom
• Complete shelving in kids' room
• Take passport photos/Apply for Sophie's passport
• Send carepackage to Kristin in Australia
• Reply to all mail
• Book apartment for Prague Trip 2008
• Complete proposal for cooking workshop
• Renew subscription for ROM 1.2.3
• Save/Burn photo archives
• Organize Spring/Summer wardrobe
• Send photos with thankyou cards to Canada
• Begin cardio again! (6 weeks has already passed!)
• Birth control

Could you schedule me a break?

A few things I've been up to... And I still keep pushing myself because I'm desperate and too anxious at this point!

• Magnus' and next baby's laundry
• Organize drawers for baby clothing
• Assemble new twin wagon
• Pack hospital bag
• Pack Magnus's bag (He'll be staying with his farmor while I'm in the hospital)
• Clean out the fridge (OMG we had mystery prawns leftover from December! Ugh!)
• Detailed clean of living room
• Flip and vacuum the sofa cushions
• Organize magazines from subscriptions
• Put up new shelving for livingroom
• Clean bedroom
• Rearrange furniture in baby's room
  
• Clean out inbox
  
• Start decorating for Chinese New Year
• Send in forms for Magnus
• Send application to renew my residence in Norway

JANUARY

• 04.01.08 - Appointment with midwife 12:30
• 14.01.08 - Ultrasound at hospital 11:00
• 17.01.08 - Babyground & Magnus' appointment 13:00
• 22.01.08 - Pregnancy appointment with doctor 09:40 (labwork)
• 23.01.08 - Pregnancy appointment with doctor 14:10
• 31.01.08 - Pregnancy appointment with doctor 10:50

FEBRUARY

• 04.02.08 - Ultrasound at hospital 11:00
• 07.02.08 - Magnus' first birthday!!!
• 07.02.08 - Chinese New Year
• 12.02.08 - Pregnancy appointment with doctor 10:50 (If I haven't already given birth!)
• 13.02.08 - Sophie was born today!!!
• 19.02.08 - Checkup at hospital with midwife 10:30
  
• 22.02.08 - Dental appointment 12:30
  
• 25.02.08 - Helsesøster appointment (housecall) for Sophie
  
• 29.02.08 - Healthstation appointment for Magnus 11:00
  

Oh, time.

I have this anxious feeling that December is going to be over before I even manage to have all my Christmas cards sent out. With so many appointments and holiday-related events I become exhausted by just browsing my calendar.

• 07.12.07 - We're hosting a cocktail/Christmas party
• 08.12.07 - Ørjan's julebord (work party)
• 13.12.07 - Pregnancy group (10.00 - 12.00)
• 14.12.07 - Final family meeting at the health stastion (12.15)
• 17.12.07 - Ultrasound at Mo hospital (14.30)
• 18.12.07 - Appointment with midwife (10.00)

Cooking, cleaning, shopping, and a missed vacation to Prague can easily summarzie this year's Christmas. Yes, we'll be missing out on the vacation planned for December but it was easily moved until the summer for a very small fee. I thought I would be ok to travel but now I realize that I'm slightly too big and having a few more complications that I had anticipated. I probably wouldn't bee too fun and the chances of actually enjoying the vacation (without ruining it for husband) would be very slim to none. Anyow...

Friday we had to go into Mo for several reasons that couldn't be avoided at all. Kitty (our cat) had to be taken to the vet again due to another swollen paw. Apparently the dosage and suggested duration of penicillin they gave us last time wasn't enough and his infection returned. We tried our best to drain and clean this paw but obviously he needed another checkup, a shot, and more medicine which all meant yet another vet bill - fantastic. We also had to buy a new kennel cab but it was worth the extra money. Saturday was a run to every food shop in town searching for ingredients needed for some of the food I'll start to prepare for our party. Can you believe that we paid $12.00 for 2 litres of cranberry juice? Welcome to my Norway. In any case almost everything on my list was purchased and I still have time to find some substitutions. Today is Tuesday and I feel like the week is almost over. I still have af ew more rooms to clean over in detail, prep and freeze some food, and do several loads of laundry. Maybe when January comes I'll find some time to catch my breath... Only January means that the countdown is on until I go into labour.

In no time at all baby #2 will be here. It's quite possible that we'll welcome our second child before Magnus turns 1. Two babies in 1 year? If you thought my December was busy, well... consider how busy my year has been! Still, I wouldn't trade it for anything.