Headed in the right direction

Things are finally starting to come together for the July arrival of Baby Brunhilda.* The biggest job so far was getting her room painted. Even though we're only renting, we couldn't bear the brick-red walls paired with brown carpet. Actually, we were willing to bear with it because we didn't want to make any improvements to our landlord's place, but Michael's mom kind of guilted us into it. A good thing, too, as it looks so much better already.

Michael's dad and stepmom, John and Janet, graciously did pretty much all the work. They own a numnber of properties and are old hat at kicking out jobs like this.

Next up is assembling the IKEA furniture, hanging stuff on the walls and hemming a pair of curtains left over from our Albuquerque place that will give the room a spot of color.

Oh, and speaking of headed in the right direction, I got the title of this post from my most recent doctor's visit, when we found out that Brunhilda is no longer breech, so she's in position and ready. That makes two of us! Only seven weeks (at the most) to go!

*Lest you think we're really giving our daughter a Viking name, Brunhilda is an homage to what my mom called me in utero. Except that I thought for 41 years (which means until recently) that she was seriously considering naming me that!