This is what put me in the hospital last night…

My messy living room.  Or in the 4 words my friend Michelle likes to say to me often, “you doin’ too much!”

Last night at about 2:20am I woke up with contractions, getting fast & more intense as the hour went on.  At first I took some Tums.  In pregnancy, it seems Tums cures everything! 🙂  At about 3:30am I told my husband it was time to go the E.R.  I’m only 28 weeks -7 months-ish- and labor is not a good thing.

Long story short, they gave me tributelene (or something like that) to slow and stop the contractions, put me on an IV drip for dehydration & told me to quit whatever it is that I’ve been doing too much of.  The whole time the baby’s heart rate was great & there was no worry the baby was under duress.  We left about 4 hours later with the instructions of a day’s bed rest & lots of water.

So, what is it that I’ve been doing too much of?

Well, if youv’e been following my last month you know I went into heavy nesting-cleaning-trying-to-milk-my-sabbatical-for-everything-it’s-worth mode.

Alone, I cleaned out 4 years worth of junk in our garage, completely cleaned out & renovated my office, did about 20 loads of laundry and cleaned out our basement, re-arranged Ransom’s room, went through 10 bags of baby clothes, arranged tons of toys and baby clothes for #2, moved about 100 books from one room to another, cleaned out our dining room & in the last two days I built a shelf & created another organizational system for Ransom’s toys which now looks like this…

We were using this closet for -you guessed it- junk!  Old coats & shoes, random toys.  It was nothing but useless space & my friend, TargetShopper’s entry closet inspired me to do the same ~organize it with shelves & hide toys in it.

The green crates were $2.50 each, the smaller containers $1.50 each & the plastic shelf was $29.99 –all from good ole WalMart.  Very cost effective on my part don’t you think?

Needless to say, I should have been listening to my body with all it’s “loud” aches & pains, sabbatical is over & no more heavy labor for me!