The baby is coming. Soon. We’re 26 days from the anticipated due date. And since she can go pretty much whenever from 37 weeks onward, we’re close.

A friendly and helpful lady from the county, Barbara, met us today over at the Celebration fire station on Celebration Pl and helped us make sure our child seat could be properly secured in our car. Our last Childbirth 101 class is at Celebration Health tomorrow night. We obtained great baby stuff — including a change table, an awesome crib, and a terrific car seat — from our neighbors here in Celebration either through the Front Porch forum or Craigslist.

I guess the reason this is on this blog instead of my personal one is that so far we’ve been able to accomplish everything we need through the Celebration community. (Well… except for pediatricians… but that’s a topic for later.) It’s a validation of the decision we made to move here, a decision that was first made on November 3 of last year and finally realized May 18. Feelings of uncertainty and doubt about moving down are being replaced by optimism and acceptance. We had a good thing going in PA, but we felt the grass was greener down here (figuratively, this time of year)… so we split a pair of 10′s (which you should never do) and it paid off.

These are the feelings as of July 27, anyway. Once the baby is born, I sincerely hope we can find parents with children about the same age, who have similar ideas about how to raise children, that we can bond/socialize/drink with. We see some babies in strollers but we see more dogs on leashes… let’s just hope that’s because dogs need to be walked more than babies, and those parents are out there somewhere.

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