Tuesday..

Tuesday was a very long day.. We had to be up around 6 to get to the hospital by 8 for our NST.. Which would be fine, if we hadn't been up til around 2am the night before.. I was exhausted. The NST went fine, Eve was very active.. and doing everything she was supposed to.. Everything looked fine on the ultrasound, although my fluid level was back down to 11 this week after being 15 last week, but I guess anything over 10 is nothing to worry about, right?
Then we came home and I had to leave almost immediately for work.. Work was fine, I just worked 11-3, and it was pretty quiet..After that I ran some errands, I got the oil changed in the car, went to the bank and then to babies r us to get the hamper and the wastebasket that matches our bedding. Except, the babies r us, even the big one here, had NO more of the hamper, and the only two wastebaskets they had were all dented and stuff... All of the stuff from our line was pretty depleted and its disappearing online, so I have a feeling it is getting discontinued. So I had the girl call the Babies R Us in Rochester. They had both in stock.. So I decided since I wasn't really doing much else (not taking into account how exhausted I was really).. I'd drive there, but I didn't know where it was. So the girl at BRU got directions from the lady at the Rochester BRU for me.. BUT... They were NOT good directions.. I ended up getting pretty lost.. and only know a few places in Rochester, so once I realized I was lost, I drove to the nearest place where I knew where I was.. And then called my awesome Nestie friend Sandi who gave me very clear directions and directed me back to BRU.. Where I successfully got all the rest of the stuff for Eve's room. I bought the wall decals too even though I'm not sure I'm using them, they didn't have any of those in buffalo either. The lady at the Rochester BRU must have realized that she gave me bad directions, because she seemed genuinely suprised that I made it there and said I should have called them.. Why would I call the people who gave me the horrible directions in the first place?

Anyway, so then I drove home, figuring that would surely be the worst of my day... WRONG.. A few minutes after I got home, Jeff called.. to inform me he was on his way home from work (it was about an hour before he should have been leaving) because he'd gotten laid off. His company closed one of their stores last week, and there had been layoffs at other stores for a month or so, but supposedly his store wasn't losing money so he thought he was pretty safe.. He's not sure how many other people from his store are getting laid off.. maybe 4 or 5.. Honestly.. I am glad he's not working there anymore.. but this timing is pretty awful, what with a baby due to come in around 4 or 5 weeks. He is applying for jobs right now.. so hopefully he is able to find something relatively quickly, he is pretty optimistic about that.. We'll figure out the paying for insurance thing, whether we do COBRA or Healthy NY or something, but what I'm most scared about is if he DOES find something, he's not going to be able to take any time off when Eve comes.. We'll just have to figure it out as it comes, I guess.. Who knows. he might not even find anything by then.. yikes..

The bright side of all of this, is he hated this job for a long time and never much had the motivation to leave it.. He obviously wasn't going to leave now, with Eve coming so soon, but i think we both sort of have a sense of relief about the whole thing.. I am really TRYING to stay positive.. We have a good family support system, we will get through this..