Checking in -- UPDATED

Howdy!  Just figured I would check in.  I'm waiting for a meeting to start and then a lab and I can't figure out what to do with myself for 30 minutes that is useful.  I could continue the grading I was working on...but I am SO tired of grading.  Sigh... I'm just going to have to do it tonight at home if I don't do it, now.  But, I guess that's what I'll do.  I just don't want to look at it right now!!

Anyway...  things are good.  We're 28 weeks!  My scan yesterday showed that all was the same from last week.  So, that's really great.  I haven't heard the results of yesterday's fFN, yet, but hopefully it will continue to be negative.  Their fluid levels are even better than last week, so that's a huge relief.  With all the extra room, they've been moving around like crazy, too.  Baby A has finally gotten out of this weird head tucked under position he's been in for almost two months.  I had my first official NST as well as my normal contraction monitoring session.  The babies were in some kind of crazy kickboxing mood, though, so it was really hard to keep the heart rate monitors on them.  Another growth scan next week and then we also start the more detailed biophysical profile measuring practice breathing and other things that I'm not sure of...  Both A and B have already been caught practice breathing -- so cool to watch!

We're starting to get flooded with shower gifts.  My Skype shower with family back home is a week from Sunday.  Family are either sending us gifts beforehand or bringing them to the shower in Atlanta and having them shipped up here (or driven up with my parents) later.  The growing pile is awesome but it's making my DH crazy.  There's still no real place to put them as the babies' room is still in transition.  So, everything is blocking the living room and my DH is getting frustrated.  I felt like he was angry with me about it -- I can't do anything about it.  We're really in limbo until the semester is over and we can tackle some more organization.  We just need the next three or four weeks to go by as quickly as possible so we can move forward.

My parents bought us our cribs and mattresses and they should be arriving next week!  So exciting!  (Although, I'm sure my DH will be annoyed as they take up more room...)  We ended up going with the mini-cribs because, when we measured the space, we realized that there was no way two regular cribs were going to fit in the room with any reasonable space around them.  We'll figure out the transitions as we go.  If it seems like we need regular ones, we'll figure something out.

I'm feeling very nervous about making sure we get everything we need.  I think the problem right now is that we have some people who have said they have stuff for us, but we're not sure what it is.  And, then we're waiting to see what happens with the showers so we haven't shopped for anything ourselves.  And, of course, there's the major problem that the only store in town is Wal-Mart, so I can't even just do some little shopping here and there each week because there just aren't any good baby stores.  When we're in the "big town" once a week, we don't really have much time for it, either.  My DH is supposed to be sending out a request to the people who've said they have things for us to let us know specifically what they are willing to sell, lend or give us so we can get a little more organized.  It's making me crazy because I really want to get a jump on this.  But, it isn't happening.  I think my DH sees it as "it can all wait until school is out" and I just need to get some things going earlier than that!

But, overall, all is going well.  I'm incredibly ready for the semester to be over.  Tomorrow is my regular OB appointment and my GD test.  Hopefully that will all be clear!

Hope everyone has a nice Easter or Passover if you celebrate either.  I'm missing my family for Passover, but I'm feeling so distracted and exhausted that the thought of even considering trying to do something on my own for it is the farthest thing from my mind!  Thank goodness for a 3 day weekend -- we don't have Good Friday off but we have the Monday after Easter off for "spring" break.  Really just a way to give the students an extra day to spend Easter with their families and then make it back to campus on Monday.  A little bizarre, but I'm certainly not complaining.  I'm very glad for the break!!

Regardless of what you do or don't celebrate, I hope everyone has a nice weekend!

UPDATE -- Well, my fFN was positive.  Which means that things are just uncertain.  If it was negative it means that it is unlikely I'll go into labor in the next two weeks.  Positive doesn't mean that I will -- it just means that I might.  So, I'm going back down tomorrow for another scan and for monitoring.  I'm nervous but trying to stay positive.