12 days to go!

And I am finally coming to grips with it. I'm still nervous, don't get me wrong - but I keep focusing on why I am having this done and it keeps me reminded that this is actually a blessing to me. I am so sick of having menses and of being in pain! I'm going to have a party next weekend as a "uterus retirement" celebration for one last bash as an "in tact" woman! haha My aunt told me that we should have a sterilization party since my uncle is now scheduled for a vasectomy on the 16th. What a party that would be. LOL

I've been trying to find ways to keep myself busy to try to coax the days into going faster for me. I swear that time has decided to go at a steady crawl as a cruel joke on my part since I finally got scheduled. Today was a very productive day! I finally went and bought my vegetables for planting. Then I came home and decided on a definite place to put my new garden and began digging my heart out. Got about halfway through when I lost my footing on my shovel and slipped. Snapped my ankle but luckily no breaks! It's a nice shade of purple and blue and swollen but as long as it's not broke, I'm fine. I need NOTHING stopping this surgery from happening! God was telling me to slow down and was making sure I did. Joe finished the digging and I sat on my garden stool and filled it in with my soils. Joey helped me plant our strawberry patch, blackberry bush, green and red bell peppers, and tomato plants. But the gray skies started to roll in (hmmm, maybe a second hint from God to just stop and relax? lol) so we gave up for today. The onions and rhubarb will go in tomorrow. The rain never did come, go figure, so I got back up and watered the garden and went out front to weed and water my flower gardens as well before relaxing for awhile again.

Of course I didn't stay down long. Once I was iced up and numb, I got in a huge cleaning frenzy! I completely took my kitchen apart and reorganized and cleaned everything. Standing mixer even got taken apart and thoroughly cleaned! The pantry has never looked better and you can actually find everything in the fridge now. All of the doorknobs and light switches and faucets have been properly sanitized in the whole house. All cabinets reorganized and decluttered. Today still went by slow but at least I was too busy to pay much attention. If this keeps up, my house will be spotless come "castle day". I'm striving for that because the Lord knows that by the time I'm able to get back to cleaning properly, all of the testosterone driven males around here will have this house flipped upside down! I also need to start cooking meals to freeze, can't quite seem to get it together to do it though. Hopefully it kicks in soon, I'm running out of time! But anyhow, it's late now and I'm nice and exhausted. Time to hobble myself upstairs and to bed. Hopefully tomorrow is a better day! =)