Winter holiday - kinda :)

My sick leave is over. I still have diabetes and don't sleep but now I'm on my winter holiday and next week's Friday is when the maternity leave finally begins officially :).
All through January and in effect the sick leave I've been really busy with preparing things for the baby and just plain keeping the household going. Friday it kind of hit me that I seem to have been working towards a deadline and that the deadline was the end of January. Since the baby is due in MARCH it didn't really make much sense but yesterday I was talking to another mom-to-be and it hit me that I somehow was trying to compensate the fact that I wasn't at work although I was still supposed to. Now that I am no longer even supposed to be at work there is this wonderful feeling of freedom.
We still need to - or want to - get quite a bit done so it isn't that I can just sit down and not do anything - nor would I really want that either. However, it's nice to have realized that not everything needs to get done right away and that many of the things are my own choice and theyr are not absolutely necessary but I just really would like to do them.
Two of the more challenging ones are making a cover type of thing for the maternity box - found my old curtains which have sweet rainbows and clouds in them and even something to use to make the inside a bit softer for the baby to lean on. Those of you who didn't know this - I didn't! - the box can be used the first weeks as a bed for the baby. It even comes with a foam mattress. And you get a duvet, too, but the problem is that it's huge in comparison to the box. It'll work fine in the baby's bed but for the box it's certainly big.
The second thing I want to make is for the baby's bed. I want to surround it with a cover as well and have been looking all over for one that I'd like but naaaah they're all kind of bland. I did find one I liked but then it turned out that it only covers part of the sides of the bed. Since the sheets we've received from various places represent all colors of the rainbow there are two options: either go white - black isn't an option :) - or then make the cover using different primary colors. I'm leaning towards the second option but that'll mean making it from several pieces and first finding the materials to make it from. So off I go tomorrow or Wednesday in search of cotton fabrics in different primary colors. AND I want to make a curtain type of a thing to hang on top of the bed bacause I think it'll be cool for the baby to look at it when she wakes up and hopefully it will give her a feeling of being safe in her own nest. I'm thinking that'll have to be mostly white, though.
I'm not boring you, am I? This is what it is now, though. And I'm enjoying it, too :). I've always liked to create nests - wrote about that in the fall -and making a nursery for our little on is just something really cool. Husband, not so surprisingly, is not quite that enthusiastic but that's fair enough. He is in charge of finding a good baby monitor instead.
Speaking - well, writing about monitors - I've now got a brand new ACCU-CHEK Compact Plus Blood Glucose Meter on loan - it's apparently a service Turku provides for it's citizens free of charge! It really is brand new and the lancet causes a much smaller hole on your finger :). The blood sugar levels have now with the medication and diet been pretty well in balance so that's really nice. After almost a month of not gaining any more weight I now have gained some but since baby puts on about a quarter of a kilo per week it was to be expected and I hope I'll be forgiven. In addition, my hands are really swollen so if that's the case with most of the rest of my body then the extra weight is probably partly just water. But I do wish I could have held my weight where it was.