Little Kite Girl

Pregnancy, of course.  So I just got home from work and took a bath immediately to try and soothe my aching back.  It’s so sad to feel so decrepit at such a young age.  So after my bath I was getting dressed again and I suddenly remembered what it used to feel like to put pants on.  Holding the pants in both hands, leaning slightly forward, picking one foot deftly off the ground and inserting it into the pant leg.  Wiggling it up a bit and then popping the other foot in and sliding them up.  Then the grand finale- BUTTONING the button, zipping the fly.  Then of course the little twist to look at my butt in the mirror.  I wish I would have appreciated that more.

Now it’s like…hold the pants in one hand while I hold onto the dresser with the other…fling the pants around randomly til I get one foot caught in one of the holes and hope to GOD it’s the right one.  Pull that up as far as it will go while trying to bend over backwards a bit for counterbalance…This of course is followed by the other leg, which is the trickiest…and I’m not really sure how I accomplish that, to be honest.  Then I pull them all the way up and the elastic settles in around my ever-expanding belly, pushing in all the right areas to make me feel like my baby is going to pop out my back.  And forget checking out my butt.  I stopped doing that months ago.

Ah the things we do for our children.  But it was a funny little memory, and honestly, experiencing that again might be my first post-pregnancy goal.  Just putting real pants on with some sort of grace and ease would make me feel like a real person again instead of two people.

Hmmm….what else is going on?  I’m still training at work.  The replacement is seriously one of the nicest people I’ve ever met.  Training is hard for me because I’m so used to just doing things myself- but it’s probably good practice.  I mean, if I do everything for Camper he’ll be 27 and still coming to me to tie his shoes.  Sure, I could do the job faster, but I only got that way because someone had the patience to teach it to me and then let me learn it.  So yes, training is going just fine.

I also went to the library yesterday and got out a couple of books I discovered online.  The one I’m reading right now is called I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies) by Laurie Notaro. Seriously funny book- it makes me laugh out loud, literally.  It makes me feel like perhaps I’m not the only person wandering around leading a sincerely ridiculous existence.  Another one I finished the other day was Eat Well, Lose Weight While Breastfeeding. (I actually bought this one). I like it because it focuses on what to eat, not what NOT to eat.  It explains the extra calories you’ll need and how to deal with the hunger you’ll feel while breastfeeding.  Apparently, the way to deal with that hunger is to EAT.  But controling what you eat will help you be healthy and lose the pregnancy weight.  It actually goes through which vitamins you really need and that you baby really needs, and which ones are easy to get and which ones you have to think about.  Good info, if you ask me.

So yup.  John is in school again, my Mom is still here and helping, and we’re all just waiting for Camper to come.  Just waiting….