Holy cow, she's nine months...

Evey's been out longer than she was in...  Funny to think of it that way.  She's nine months old now.  Thank God the eighth month is over, it was hell.  Nine seems to be looking up.  She is very squirmy, very independent and she can sit up on her own without me watching to see if she'll tip over.  That was quite a day when she realized that she can do that.

On the home front, renovations are making us all a little edgy.  We are in the process of changing over from oil to electricity.  We had to take the old water heaters out (they were heavy as hell), gyp and plaster the walls because the heaters were sunk into the walls.  We had the electrician over to run wire, then he'll have to come back to install the heaters.  This is not a cheap project.  We decided to go with convection heaters - they are more efficient and heat the whole room instead of just the floor (as baseboards do).  These heaters run anywhere from 220$-800$ depending on how fancy you want them to be.  In all we need 6 heaters, you can do the math.  Along with the cost of Mr. Electrician, it'll cost us a pretty penny.  On top of that, there are some OLD windows that DESPERATELY need to be changed.  So that's another 5000$.  I'm telling you, this cut in pay for the maternity leave is making me live from pay to pay.  I have never had to do that before.  I mean I've watched my money but it's to the point now where I won't buy groceries unless they are on sale!  January 15th can't come soon enough in the money department.  I'll feel like I'm RICH when I get that first pay cheque - well I won't be cause I'll have to play catch up...

On the daycare front, Evelyn's got a spot at a place that's about a 12 minute walk from the house.  The woman running the place said it may not be for the 5th of January, but definitely January.  Then she called back and said maybe December!  That would be good because then I can ease Baby E into it.  I'm trying not to think about the whole thing.  Kids do fine at the whole daycare thing, so I don't want to obsess about it now while I still have 3 and a half months left with her.  I'm sure I'll be obsessing about it in the weeks and days coming up to it.

Wow, this was a long one.  I guess I had a lot to get off my chest.  There's a lot more, but I'll save it for next time.  Evey is waking up from her nap, so I've got to get a move on.