This is Monica Packer from About Progress and you are listening to The Messy Middle, a monthly

series where I share some of my own messy middle so you can see what progress looks like

for a real woman in real time.

Hello, hello, I am so looking forward to spending this time with you and appreciate that

you're willing to give me this space to share about my own life here on the podcast that

is not about me.

So I hope what this can do is inspire you on just what life can look like to be in the

messy middle and just trying.

I always like to start these episodes with what's happening segment where I tell you what's

going on in the Packer household.

The forefront of all of our minds is this pregnancy.

I am 33 and a half weeks pregnant, definitely counting to half weeks and also in the semi-pianic.

For how little time we have to prepare for this baby, I feel so behind.

We recently had to come to grips with that, oh my goodness, we don't have a crib or

a rocker or a changing table and lots of other things.

We do have a carcy and things like that because I kept some things for my last baby, but

I am in the process of looking into that.

I went to a consignment store today and got a little rocker for them to be in.

As of tonight, I have put in some official inquiries to getting a used crib and a rocker

off Facebook marketplace.

We are getting there.

I'm feeling pretty good, just very pregnant and very old.

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