It's All Over But the Waitin'...

So, you'll notice the baby countdown on my page is now zeroed out. I'm sure I don't have to elaborate on the fact that this means my due date has come and gone. Well, it won't have gone for another couple of hours since it's today. But, I'm pretty sure I won't have a baby in my arms within the next 2 hours so let's just say (for fun, ya know) that I'm overdue. While it's not like I'm miserable or even in low spirits, I'm simply tired of waiting. Our whole world seems to be teetering on this edge of baby vs. no baby. I'm just ready to get on with it!! Further, I think Bailey is now convinced that we're all liars and there really is no baby brother coming (which, in reality, may suit her just fine!!).

Now, I don't know if this will really make sense - it does to me - but part of my problem is that I feel like I'm so prepared that, when it actually happens, I won't be prepared at all. Huh??? I've spent the past 2 weeks doing all the laundry in the house so that this won't be a lingering task, I've ironed all of Bailey's clothes so that my in-laws can easily dress her should we have to go to the hospital in the middle of the night and leave caretaking duties to them, I've packed and re-packed my hospital bag and access all of my beauty products out of Ziploc bags, I've purchased snack foods and ample drinks for the inevitable (and welcome, by the way!) visitors, and I'm unnaturally concerned with keeping my hair clean and my legs shaved for fear of having to go to the hospital with 3-day-old greasy hair and a forest on my extremities. All of that is fine and well but, the more time that goes by, the more my good work just becomes CONSUMED. I mean seriously, I'm pregnant, do you think that Sprite and those Cheetos are going to be around for more than a few days?? (They're baked....no guilt!!!) And, laundry has a crazy way of piling up at twice the rate it was cleaned. I just can't make everything perfect...and I know no one in the world cares but me!! But, hey, that's just how I roll.

Finally, to anyone who has so carelessly reassured me that 2nd babies always come early, I say BOOOOOOOOOOO to you. That is all...