05 September 2005

5 days to due date (9/9/05) | 2 weeks, 1 day into maternity leave

Accomplishments so far:
1) Most baby clothes and linen laundered
2) Pram, travel crib and car seat decided on and sorted
3) Overnight bag packed, Sport Lucozade chilling in fridge
4) Two and a bit sudoku puzzles done
5) Cooked cucur jagung and US-style pancakes (OK not strictly accomplishments but was v pleased with myself when eating them)

Things I'm supposed to be doing:
1) Buying and cooking tonight's dinner
2) Laundering baby's newest clothes and pram and bouncy chair covers plus bedsheets
3) Final check on things in overnight bag
4) Buying another pineapple; also raspberry leaf tea
5) Find out exactly when Mom and Dad are arriving
6) Write out birth plan
7) Practise pelvic floor exercises (buy stupid pelvic floor muscle exercise indicator thing?)
8) Practise pilates class breathing exercises
9) Read the books I took out from the library on breastfeeding etc etc
10) Practise Chinese (write letters to grandparents for their amusement?)
11) Cooking extra food and freezing it for later
12) Reading up on Middle East
13) Sorting out long-overdue wedding, birthday presents to send out

Things I should not be doing:
1) Bloody difficult sudoku puzzle that is wasting my time
2) Eating more sugar
3) Watching TV
4) Reading any more books on food; the latest two, Ant Egg Soup and Extreme Cuisine, have been a bit disappointing. Argh why isn't there another Elizabeth David?

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