How to Pass Time When Your Baby is Overdue

Paint your guest room. I thought that taping off all the trim the night the baby was due would somehow trick him into ruining our plans and coming that night. It didn't and we ended up painting the whole room on Thanksgiving morning.

^^ Notice the new paint, the bed frame assembly and new rug rolled up there. All part of passing the time.^^

Deep clean your front room. We moved all the furniture, cleaned the rug (it's a lot more intense than it sounds), made a place for the Christmas tree and put away all the things.

Drive to Maine and go shopping. We love the Crate & Barrel Outlet up in Kittery so we decided to make the trip up there and look around on black Friday. Once again, I thought making plans, especially far away from home, would somehow entice the baby to make a move but it didn't. We did end up with a nice new rug though.

Buy and put up your Christmas tree. We got all the decorations out and strung 7 strings of lights on that thing. We also put up all the other Christmas decor- we have a LOT of it!

Change out your bed frame in preparation for your new mattress to arrive. To be fair, Thomas did this one mostly on his own.

Walk around the mall. I think we did about three miles in one go there. I'm pretty sure all it did was rock the baby to sleep, he doesn't seem to be any more willing to make a move.

Go out to lunch with your husband. We try to do this every once in a while and since I am no longer working I had plenty of time to drive up to Andover and have a little Mexican food with him.

Walk around Target for an hour trying to find something interesting to buy. I only found one pair of cozy socks which cost $2. I didn't feel like waiting in line to buy just those so I left them in a cart and walked out of Target with nothing. How is that even a thing?!

**I finished writing this blog post the night that I ended up going into labor so maybe the Mexican food for lunch and walking around Target really did do something to get things moving**