I have been in Nova Scotia for two days now, and I am incandescently happy. The house is beautiful and comfortable (I felt at home as soon as I arrived) and the landscape is breathtaking. It's the perfect amount of quiet too. To paint you a picture, The house is on the side of a road covered on one side by trees and rolling hills and a bush on the other, and as soon as you walk in you're in a room full of plants and wicker furniture (two house must-haves in my opinion) and the best way I can describe it is 'warm and comfortable'. Outside in the front is a patio with foliage on top and comfy patio furniture, surrounded by flowers and plants, with bird feeders everywhere! I had a hummingbird not two feet from my face this morning!!! It's magical. It's a little too chilly to read outside right now, but you can bet that once the sun decides to warm my toes again, I will be living outside. Downstairs there is a rec room with comfy old furniture and big windows, and a sliding glass doors that open onto a patio below the deck upstairs, a perfect place to sit, meditate and listen to the birds chirping all around. Down the hall there are a few rooms and a bathroom, and at the end there is a big bathroom (newly renovated, which was incredibly touching), my super-comfy and beautiful bedroom (decorated from floor to ceiling in green, my favourite colour - also touching) with a big window looking into the backyard and a little one looking out to the side yard, and then across the hall from me is the baby's room. His room is painted cream and white and has patio doors opening onto a patio that is connected by a little path of patio stones to the rec room patio. I can already picture myself rocking the baby in front of the windows. And incidentally, the baby's room used to be Jim's room. I think that's magical. I've been going to bed at night listening to the frogs doing it and waking up to the singing and chirping of birds. Now if you know me at all, you know I am in heaven here.
Jim's parents are lovely, welcoming people and I know I am going to be very happy here. I can't think of a more perfect place to wait for the baby's arrival. I'm getting anxious for the weather to improve though so Jim and I can go carve out a trail to walk around the property and along the river on. I want so badly to start exploring outside, but I know I have to be a wee bit more careful than I usually would be.
At the Toronto airport there was a LUSH store, which in case you don't know is an store that sells handmade, all-natural soaps, lotions, shampoos and whatnot. I love LUSH soaps, especially their Karma soap, and so we went in to pick some up. I asked the saleswoman if they had anything for itchy bellies, and she said they have something that is perfect for pregnant women's bellies that prevents itchiness and stretch marks, and showed me this stuff called Dream Cream. It smells incredible, and is all-natural, so I told her I would get some because frankly I have been so itchy lately that I will try anything at this point. It was a whopping $25 fr a 250mL tub, but so far it's been working and the tub is recyclable, so I'm happy as a clam.
Jim and I went to the city yesterday for some maternity clothes, and I peed my pants in Old Navy! I sneezed unexpectedly, with no time to clench, and peed a little in my maternity tights. Thank goodness it was just a little and thank goodness we were clothes shopping! Needless to say, I'll be increasing my daily kegel exercises from now on. I managed to acquire all of the necessities I would need to get me through these last 3 months of pregnancy without spending a truckload of money, so I am thrilled. We also went out for dinner with Jim's nephew Winston and that was fun.
I don't know if it's the raw/vegan diet I've been on for a couple of weeks or just timing, but my heartburn is gone and I seem to have more energy! I'm going to credit my eating habits with the change. Jim has also decided to try eating raw/vegan which makes it easier not to dive into a meatlover's pizza. Today Jim is at work and I am working on finding a midwife, and if not a midwife, then an OB. Wish me luck!
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