One Hundred Days

So...
...I'm due in one hundred days.

Every day in my head I keep thinking... I really should make a To Do list of things we need/want to get done before the baby comes... but then my brain gets too tired or I forget.

Obviously there are some things that are directly related to the baby or the birth which we won't have to do until later, like pack the GO bag and install a car-seat and decorate the nursery and go to a La Leche League meeting.  But there are lots of little things that only I can know that I really want to get done before all our attention is diverted to the tiny human being that will be living in our house come August.  Like painting the baseboards and doors in the basement.  Touch up the paint in the upstairs.  Finish painting the garage door.  OK not all the things in my brain have to do with paint...  Have a garage sale.  Back up... go through all our stuff and figure out a bunch of things to sell at a garage sale.  Take a first aid class.  File all our medical and taxes paperwork.  Back up... go through our office paperwork THEN file it all.  Look at our health insurance plan options and figure out if we want to switch once the baby comes.  Get our cars detailed.  Get my teeth cleaned and eyes checked.  Sell some stuff on eBay or Craigslist.  Learn how to use our camera, thoroughly.  Be more diligent about my Bradley exercises.  Purchase and send wedding gifts for all the friends and family members we have getting married this year (we've got at least eight weddings between now and the end of the year, isn't that incredible?) and stay on top of RSVP's and trip planning.  Organize my practice plans and other stuff for next volleyball season.  Identify wedding pictures for our wedding album before it's too late.  Schedule our meeting with the estate planner that's going to help us with power of attorney and wills and other grownup stuff you need to do before you have a kid.  Go through all the stuff that's been carted over here from my old room at my parents' house.  I know Dan has a list too, in his head, of things like organizing the garage.  And a bunch of things I can't even think of right now.  And a whole 'nother list, twice as long and ten times as overwhelming, in the career/professional category. All the stuff I need to do at work to prepare for maternity leave...

My brain hurts.  I want to cry.  All this stuff is so overwhelming and time is flying by.  I hope this is a normal feeling.  I hope that the exhaustion and overwhelmed-ness passes and at some point I'll get a surge of energy and motivation to Go Do - with Jonsi-esque enthusiasm.  Some women have told me that one day it's like a light switch turns on and you start nesting and get all Task Ninja on things.  I hope they are right because right now I know as soon as I hit 'post' and close my computer, I'm going to forget I even wrote this until the next time something occurs to me and my brain starts spinning again...