DAYS 7 AND 8: Mt. Laundry: The Sequel

Not a whole lot of new stuff to report the past two days. I made a lot of progress in Sophie's room over the long weekend. Load #7 of baby laundry is in the dryer now...three loads of baby clothes (one more to go), three loads of bedding, and one load of all the fabric seats for the playmat, carseats, swing, and exersaucer. I think about three more loads to go for blankets and quilts.

The weather has been horrible here for the last few days. The nor'easter that came through has really bombarded us with about 6 inches of rain since Sunday morning. Luckily, we've never had a problem with water in the basement, but the little stream in the front of the property is gushing through the wetlands right now. It looks like we have a moat around the lawn. There were quite a few trees down in the neighborhood, including a large dead one in the back corner of our property that K wanted to take down anyway. Luckily, it fell straight down on the boulders that kind of define the edge of our property, so we could probably just roll it over the boulders into the woods, which is where our Christmas tree graveyard is! For those of you not familiar with our house, we have about 2.5 acres, with about 1.5 of it wooded...most in front of the house.

EJ's desk is nearly done. K finished painting it and it should be all set up in her room in the next few days. She's anxious to get it up there, and I'm anxious to get rid of the little plastic desk in the family room. It will join the other large plastic toys in the attic - an easel, a kitchen, etc. I told her she can set up a play area up there for Sophie.

And finally, you might have noticed that the posts are counting days until will get Sophie in our arms! Let's hope we don't get beyond 50 or 60! We submitted our travel paperwork on Friday, and we are planning to leave for Beijing a day early to take in some extra sites and to adjust to the time change a bit more before Miss Sophie keeps us busy.