Stew, Sugar Cookies and swollen ankles

I'm realizing why none of the baby books tell you how incredibly bored and anxious you will get in the last few weeks of your pregnancy. We're down to 10 days until the big due date and no progress has been made. Our Dr's appt on Friday was fairly disappointing. Waking up Friday morning, I was certain that progress had been made and the Dr. would give the green light to get things going but no dice. He just said, see you next week and if things are happening then, we can talk about the magic word "induction" but if not, we continue to wait. The baby's heartbeat was a healthy 140 and we were surprised at how fast the nurse found it. She had it cranked up so it was incredibly loud and my mom was with us so she got to hear it for a 2nd time. The baby is still pointing in the right direction with it's head right where it needs to be and is around 7lbs the Dr. is guessing. The little bugger is just going to take its sweet time to get here.
So, what does one do to pass the time when they can't travel more than 30 minutes away (which pretty much means stay home because there's nothing fun and exciting within 30 minutes)?
Here's how my weekend looked:
Friday-

1. Walked Guthrie
2. Visited my grandpa in the hospital
3. Went to the Dr.
4. Went to Happy Joe's with my mom
5. Went shopping with my mom for things we didn't need but needed to pass the time
6. Went to the nursing home with my mom where I read 1/2 of a book: "How Evan Broke his Head" Garth Stein
7. Stopped by the office for cake that I had been craving, thanks Matt!!
8. Walked Guthrie for a 2nd time
9. Went to dinner with Deb and some of her colleagues
10. Visited my grandpa in the hospital
11. Went and saw the movie "Women" with my mom and aunt Deb. Terrible, terrible movie. To add to it, the Shorty was rambunctious and insisted on kicking me in the ribs and playing patty cake with my bladder.

Saturday-

1. Walked the dogs with Deb
2. Went to the grocery store and we learned a valuable lesson. Do not let the pregnant woman shop alone! $103 later, we had a variety of items including all the fixin's to make stew, chili, a strange Wisconsin casserole and sugar cookies. Our usual grocery bill is about $50 so you know I splurged on random items.
3. Went to lunch with Maria and Deb at Champs
4. Cranked up the crock pot and made chili
5. Took a short nap and elevated legs to try and get rid of the massively swollen ankles
6. Played with Lucy in the backyard
7. Went for a walk on Grandview without the dogs
8. Took a 2nd shower for the day
9. Vaccumed the house
10. Debated painting my toe nails but remembered I couldn't reach them
11. Read the other 1/2 of my book
12. Watched 4 episodes of Nanny 911 and fell asleep at 9:30pm

Sunday-

1. Woke up at 9:50am paniced that I had slept so late (as if I had something major to do)
2. Walked Guthrie while Deb ran with Lucy
3. Visited my grandpa in the hospital
4. Cut everything up for Stew and put it in the crock pot
5. Prepared sugar cookie dough in my favorite kitchen aid mixer and put it in the fridge to chill
6. Put everything together for Deb's "Wisconsin Corn Casserole" and put it in the oven
7. Walked up to my parents house to get their lab, Eadie, and took her for a walk
8. Read the newspaper
9. Watched football with Deb (you know I was desperate for something to do, football!!)
10. Took a 2nd shower for the day
11. Went to the grocery store to find sprinkles to decorate the sugar cookies
12. Made the sugar cookies and decorated them
13. Watched a WNBA game
14. Fell asleep at 10pm

Tell me does my weekend not get any more exciting or what!! So as you can see, this baby either needs to arrive soon or people need to come up with creative ideas for things I can do!!! :-)

Thankfully Deb was trying to work ahead with all of her lectures so she was busy, busy, busy or I would have drove her nuts! :-)

Cheers,

Mic