the latest in the crane household

Seems like I'm overdue for a post.  The last one while somewhat interesting, didn't have much details of day to day life...  Life has been busy in the Crane household.  Sort of.  I graduated in May!  Yay for me!  I achieved a goal that I had set since my first semester of the program: to graduate with honors.  Then at the beginning of this school year I bumped it up to graduating with high honors.  I don't want to brag, but I worked hard and it felt so amazing to walk into the E center in my robe with my cords knowing I accomplished a big goal that I had set.  It’s one of the few goals that I’ve really worked hard on to achieve.  Both sides of my family came to support me and that was really neat to see as well.  It really meant a lot to me to have them come all the way to celebrate my graduation.  It was really a special night for me!

Now that I’m graduated… feels like there’s not much for me to do.  My apartment is clean!  I do have a week left of work study at the school I can do, so I go in a couple times a week and work on projects.  It sure is different now that I’m a graduate though.  I have less patience for projects that really seem to be time fillers.  I’d rather be doing something really productive.  But money is money…and we can all use a bit more.

Jeremy is great!  He got a new shift at work.  Monday through Friday 8-4:30 and he is happy as a lark with it.  We have evenings together now and that has been a real treat.  He takes the bus home and is here in time for dinner.  Its nice to have someone to share dinner with.  Makes it easier for me to find motivation to actually make something!

And of course, we’re all waiting on Baby!  I’m 33 weeks along so really just about a month left (give or take).  Both Jeremy and I are excited to meet him and add him to our little family.  I’m feeling pretty good.  I don’t care for the third trimester much I’ve decided.  My back hurts if I sit in the same position for too long, I’m not sure what to do about that.  I’m sure some of it comes with the territory, but there’s part of me that thinks I should be able to fix part of it.  I get tired easier and the whole eat five bites and be full…then hungry an hour later is kicking in. That’s pretty lame.  But I’ve had a healthy pregnancy with very few problems so I really cannot complain.  Our little boy likes to move a lot.  Jeremy loves coming home and after dinner we snuggle on the couch and sometimes our little one will be going kinda crazy and Jer gets to feel him.  As for my end of things…I don’t think he likes my ribs.  I swear he braces himself on one hip and then pushes on my ribs on the other side.  We know he’s a boy because he seems to have that attitude that if it don’t move and I think it should I’m going to manhandle it and MAKE it move.  Fun times for mom.  Doctor says everything looks good and so we’re just waiting out the last month.  It’ll probably be a long one, but maybe we’ll be surprised and it’ll move fast.

One thing that might make it move faster is we’re looking to move.  I was hoping to stay here in Pleasant Grove until October or even November with the baby sharing a room with us while he could still fit in a bassinette.  But then we talked with our landlord and she mentioned that her son was getting married in September and wanted to move in.  Cue: exit stage left for the Crane’s.  It’s a bit of a disappointment.  We were still thinking about staying until September, but we started apartment hunting.  We found one place we really feel good about, and talked to the manager.  We can only really afford a one-bedroom for now, and he told us he can only move two of us in.  What happens after we move in is our business.  So basically if we want to move in we need to do it before baby is born.  So that puts us on a real time crunch.  We can move in first of August, but that’s awfully close to my due date of Aug 5^th.  What if he comes early?  But July…that’s like 10 days away!  There’d be a lot to do!  And I’m truly heartbroken to be leaving.  There was a part of me that fantasized about staying here for a few more years.  Maybe our landlord would offer the room on the other side of our bedroom and we could turn that into a nursery… but its not meant to be. Reality is reality and the fact is we need to move.  So currently we’re waiting on this apartment complex to call us back and hopefully approve us.  If they do we’ll probably be gone by July first.  This summer may really be my summer of change.  Graduating, moving, having a baby… busy. 

All in all things are good though.