Ninja baby, 23 weeks, and more cuts

Today marks day 1 of Week 23! Only 17 weeks (or so, depending on an early/late baby) to go.
Apparently, 23 weeks also means that my sweet little fetus has morphed into a death machine of karate kicks and ninja chops. He has been kicking NON-STOP since Thursday. Maybe he'll be an action hero when he grows up, or a champion swimmer. I've actually been seeing my stomach move from the outside today, and it was not as subtle as I expected for this point in my pregnancy. Our little one was in there dancing or hula hooping or something, because the area under my belly button was waving like an ocean and randomly protruding as I sat on the couch this morning. My absolute new favorite thing is a little game I've been able to play with my guy, mostly in the morning around 6am. He kicks, I push back, he kicks again...I push in a new spot, and he follows! I think it's just amazing that he can feel me poking him and respond like that.  It's so miraculous and amazing that there's a little person developing in there, it sometimes takes my breath away to think that my husband and I made this little person, and that he grew all the way from a poppy seed when we first realized I was pregnant to what is rapidly looking more and more like the newborn he's soon going to be. I can't wait to meet him and be able to play with his cute little toes and fists from the outside (I think my organs are pretty excited about that, too).

I've been taking classes to earn my admin degree (a sloooowwww one class at a time. I think I have 4 down and 9 or 10 to go) and I just finished up my last paper of the semester. I still have to edit and turn it in, but let me tell you, I am so ready for this class to be over. I'm hoping our handy man will be in this week to work on the basement walls so we can start focusing on the nursery. I'm getting anxious to register and set everything up. 17 weeks, or about 4 months, seems so long and so short all at  the same time. I have so many ideas of crafty projects I want to try pinned to Pinterest; it's important to me that the nursery be very personal and custom. I'm hoping to make some individualized wall art, my own mobile, a crib skirt and curtains, and some other little accessories for the room. I'll have to post my projects as I get them done, hopefully with tutorials if I don't get horribly lazy.

Onto the depressing stuff...
ME just announced on Friday that they're also cutting 28 positions next year, with 2 librarians included in those numbers. Nothing yet from my school, keeping my fingers crossed...