february...finally.

thanks to our dearest friends and family, we are moved into our house! it's strange to look around at my new surroundings and understand that it's mine. i can stay here for a while. i can decorate!

seriously though, our friends are the best ever. huge kudos to them for waking up early on a Saturday morning to help us move. i thank God that i know these people.

my parents (both sets) came down on Saturday to relieve our friends of their moving duties and help us get settled a bit. what a great help! it's so nice to be able to see my parents, give them hugs, and share this new chapter in our lives with them. i can't wait for Reid's parents to come home in April to visit us in our home!

when my parents were here, my mom hung a little sleeper on the baby's room door. it's so incredibly sweet, and i hate to say it, but it's so hard for me to look at it. i know that somehow, i'll have a baby boy, but i just don't know when, or for how long, or even how. i don't feel like i'm making sense, but i just don't make sense lately. not to myself.

Friday, i was put on partial bed rest. i can work 4 hours a day in the office, and do some from home as well. i think i'll have to make some important and difficult decisions about work soon. after all, business must go on. i'm okay with that. i have a really great job, and i work for someone who cares, but who needs to continue working probably even harder than before given the increase in responsibilities we've taken on in the last year or two.

well, it's back to coaxing the cat to her litter box and waiting for Reid to come home so that we can get some more work done around here!

on an unrelated note, our house has a cat door that goes down to the basement. that's a great thing! the only problem is that we have a cat who's afraid of her own shadow, and won't use it. i taped it up yesterday and put her litter box out there. i can't tell if she's used it yet, but she hasn't used anything else as a toilet today so we'll just have to see. if i could only speak cat, and convince her that pushing that little flap up with her head isn't going to kill her. for now, i use cat treats to try to bribe her through the door. it's only worked once, and she ran right back inside after she ate her treat.