I finally completed the first batch of tasks that I set for myself, which were to clean the upstairs of my house including cleaning out Sophia’s room (Kurt helped a lot there). I finished all the tasks from August 6th, which were to arrange the after baby shower dinner reservations, make a vet appointment for Gandalf, call the babysitting referral a coworker gave me, and make a doctor appointment for myself.
The babysitter I called wasn’t able to say if she would have an opening when I need it because I guess 6 months is too far out for private babysitters whereas the bigger daycare centers have waiting lists – ugg. I got a very good overall vibe from her though. She even gave me some great advice in finding a sitter. Unfortunately she prefers full time kids as opposed to just the three days a week that I would need. She said to check back with her once the baby is born. Maybe we can work something out. Her fee is $180 a WEEK! – OUCH! But I guess that’s about the norm for this area.
Kurt and I made tamales the day after the baby shower, which was on my August 13th task list along with enjoying my baby shower. The shower was fantastic – I wish I could say the same for the tamales. I’ve been forced to promise Kurt that I will never ever ever again mess with the tamale masa recipe that my mother uses. He’s exact words were, “Why mess with perfection?” Oh wait till my mother hears that! She’ll never let me live that one down!! My tamales came out HORRIBLE!! On the up side I perfected my pozole recipe. I usually make pozole after making tamales because I always have leftover homemade chicken broth – I also perfected the flavor of my chicken broth so my next batch of tamales should be beyond perfect. 
This week’s goal is to hound our lawyer about the paternity and estate planning documents that he promised to mail last week, and hopefully we’ll get that all done this week since we pretty much know how we want things set up already.