A VERY Busy Saturday

We had quite the busy Saturday. Here's the breakdown of how we spent it (because I just KNOW you were all dying to see how productive we can be on a weekend).

We were educated:

• Attended our last childbirth prep class. Hooray, it's over!
• While at the class, during our tour of the birthing center at the hospital, happened to run into my doctor (who had just finished checking on a baby in the NICU). He stopped me and asked if his nurses had told me yet about the glucose test results. I told him they had, and that I was planning on going in Monday morning to get the second test taken care of. He told me he was sorry to make me have to do it, but he just wanted to be sure (which, really, is fine), and then he kindly reassured me that he really didn't think I'd have any further problems. Which was nice to know. Also, it was nice to learn that my doctor can pick me out of a crowd of several other pregnant women, and remember at least a snippet of my medical records, all AWAY from his office. He's a good doctor.
  
• After doing a bit of research, learned that the strange tightening sensations I've been feeling in my belly lately are Braxton-Hicks contractions. Am I really that far along?
  

We went shopping:

• Found seven cute articles of baby boy clothes at a rummage sale, which we promptly bought for 50 cents apiece.
• Made a quick trip to the grocery store.
• Found a few summer shirts and pajama pants for Blake on the clearance racks.
• Also found him some dashing (and ridiculously cheap) silk ties on clearance.
• Decided that clearance racks and rummage sales are generally the way to go.

We were practical:

• Got the oil changed in our car.
• Whipped a pass-along card out of my purse to give to the guy who changed the oil because he told us he wanted to get a copy of the Book of Mormon.
  
• Got my glasses adjusted (yet again) so they can just stop falling off my face already.

We cleaned:

• Thoroughly dusted the house (which it desperately needed).
• Threw away a pile of old magazines and catalogs.
• Did three loads of laundry, which included the bedsheets.
• Re-made the bed, this time packing away the extra winter blanket (because I think that maybe spring has come for reals this time).
• Picked up approximately 12 piles of stuff, thereby destroying quite a bit of evidence that not only do we live here, but are often quite lazy when it comes to putting things away.
• Found places for our growing collection of tiny baby items.
  
• Vacuumed.
• Cleaned the kitchen (me, because I'm a whiz at dishes) and the bathroom (me and Blake, because I can't so much easily clean the bathtub anymore).

We were righteous:

• I planned a Young Women lesson,
• While Blake set up about a bazillion appointments for the Bishop (which he ended having to cancel this morning because our Bishop was sick today).

We relaxed:

• Put our feet up and watched Keeping Up Appearances, our recently discovered favorite British sitcom on PBS.
• Called my family, and because pretty much everyone was gone, spent a lovely 20 minutes or so chatting with my favorite youngest sister.

So, whew -- what a day! What a good, solidly productive, but enjoyable day. How was yours?