Places to Go, People to See

So I have a bit of a crazy day today so that means I don't really have time to upload pictures today. I'll try to make up for it tomorrow though.

Here's my schedule:

• Clean the house and get myself ready before Antonis wakes up
• Go to work with Antonis so we can talk to his mom....I'm finally pushing the baby name talk (I'll explain after)
• Go to Melena's shop to ask her about borrowing a maternity dress for the baptism on Sunday
• Come home, get ready to go to the beach
• Dinner with Tim and Kath

As for cleaning the house...I don't really have to do that but I absolutely HATE coming home to messy house. It stresses me out! So dishes, tidy up, fold the laundry and put it away. Boring, blah blah blah, moving on....

Here's the big, scary part of the day: talking to Antonis' mom about the baby's name. So the traditional Greek family always names the baby after the grandparents. The first baby born is named after the husband's parents; so if it's a girl she takes the husband's mom's name, if it's a boy he takes the husband's father's name. The second baby born takes the mother's parents name. And then after that, I'm not really sure what happens, my guess is it's a free-for-all. In other words by the time you get to the third baby they adopt Canadian baby naming practices and you choose the name you want without anyone telling you what you have to do (hmmm, I hit the keys a little harder typing those last words...just hormones? must be). As you know we're having a girl, so the "rule" states that we would have to name her Olympia. 

I really don't have a problem with the name at all, which is always everyone's first reaction. I'm not looking to break tradition for shallow reasons, my reason is simply this: We live in Greece, Olympia will see her grandbaby every day if she wants to....but I have parents also. Unfortunately, they live VERY far away and will be lucky if they get to see their grand daughter once a year. WHEW, getting a little emotional now....

This is my problem. I don't feel right naming the baby after her when she gets to be the happy, doting grandma already. It doesn't seem fair and I feel like I'd be totally disrespecting my parents by following this tradition.

Antonis on the other hand, is afraid of disrespecting his parents by NOT following the tradition. This has been a heated topic for about 3 years now. The only way I was able to get Antonis to consider other names for the baby was to agree to explaining to his mom why this is hard for me, and then ask her permission to break tradition. 

So today's the big day. 

I personally think she'll understand and will be fine with this. Antonis...he's not so sure. We'll see what happens. 

If  Olympia is ok with it, I do have a name picked out BUT I'm not telling anyone what it is yet! I've thrown some ideas out there, but even the select few of you who think you know what my name choice is...sorry! You don't know either. I don't know if I'll make you wait until she's born...I might..but I haven't decided yet. We'll have to see how this discussion goes first...

SO after we have this stressful argument talk I'm going to stop by my friend Melena's shop. Last weekend she mentioned she had the perfect maternity dress for me to borrow. Our friends Tara and Giannis are baptizing their baby girl on Sunday (which is also mine and Antonis' wedding anniversary!! YAY!), but unfortunately all my cute dresses are no longer cute on me. Correction: they're still cute, I just can't get them on me. 

After that Antonis will get his break and we'll go the beach for a while. Yesterday's storm cleared up last night and today looks perfect. I went for a walk last night around 8pm and it smelled like Spring! It was so nice! I got some good pictures of sheep too but I'll put those up later because I don't have time right now.

And finally dinner tonight with Tim and Kath, our lovely friends from England who have been here for their annual 2-week Molyvos holiday and will be heading back to the UK tomorrow morning. I'll have pictures of that for tomorrow.

OK, so that's my day. It might not seem that busy to the normal person but when your 27 weeks pregnant and walking yourself to each one of these places....it's exhausting. Speaking of 27 weeks pregnant...

I'M 27 WEEKS PREGNANT TODAY!!! 

After next week I'm in the 3rd trimester baby, YEAH!

Alright, I have lots to do so I better go. OH, before I forget, I got quite a lot of organizing done in the baby's room yesterday which I'm really happy about. But we'll talk about that another day and I'll show pics of the progress.

For now, just one picture until tomorrow because I couldn't resist....