This is seriously the best baby-shower gift idea I’ve run into for a long time. I wish I would’ve gotten it when Camper was smaller! If you get it, you’ll have to let me know if you like it!
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Monday, February 2nd, 2009Cause it’s all I ever talk about
Thursday, September 4th, 2008Pregnancy, 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….
Oh What a Day
Thursday, August 28th, 2008It’s actually been a good couple of days. Camper-centered, like usual. He’s been on the top of our minds and people have showered us with gifts for our little baby to be. Yesterday we got a HUGE box from our Groton family. TONS of clothes, I can’t even believe it. Looks like BabiesRUs exploded in Camper’s room. When my cousin Sara’s baby was born he kind of just “skipped” the whole newborn clothes stage- he was a big one- and has just gotten bigger, so he was kind enough to share. Thanks Sara, Auntie and Melissa for sending your love this way!! Then today the girls at work threw me a shower. It was amazing- they got me tons of bath stuff and clothes and baby pruning tools and the cutest baby book ever. My Mom came too, and even though she’s given me a gift at my other two showers (one in MA and one in Herriman with family), she came with even more!! I thought it was tricky yesterday when she came home from “the park” without the book she always takes to read, and then wouldn’t look at me until I stopped asking where she had been ;) She’s a tricky one- she got me the warm jumper I wanted for Camper AND the cutest PJ’s with bears and moose and racoons on it AND a breast pump. I actually can’t even remember all the things people have given us, it’s an amazing show of love and support. So thanks to all our family and friends that have given us so much from the very earliest stages of this pregnancy!
Pregnancy is once again changing on me. I’ve gotten hungrier again, even waking up feeling like I want to eat in the middle of the night. I’ve tried to stifle that urge a bit…I want milk ALL THE TIME, and I’m starting to get more tired at work again. I think that has a lot to do with the fact that we’ve hired my replacement and I’m in the beginning stages of training her. My back is also killing me…but I hear that’s to be expected. More exciting, though, is that Camper is getting really really strong. I felt him stretching the other morning and it was so slow and deliberate, he is such a real little person. I’m hoping that we’ll have good news with regard to my iron at my appointment tomorrow, but honestly, it’s nice to not have to worry about Camper’s health anyway. Just don’t beef up in there too much Little Man…
John goes back to school next week, and I’ll keep on working and doing as much as I can. I think the time might be approaching when I’ll need a little more rest. I got home last night and asked John, “What if I go into labor at the end of a day and am already exhausted?” I think I need to try a little harder to not get so run down. We’ll see what I can do about that…
But as for now, I’m just enjoying life with baby internal. I’m really, really enjoying having my Mom here. I tried to explain to her today that I’m actually starting to feel spoiled- do you know many people who have someone there to help them get the food they need and do the cleaning that needs done and drop them off and pick them up and basically just lives life in a constant state of, “What can I do for you?” I hope that I can be as good a Mom as she is, selfless and patient. Cause I know I’m not an easy one to help. At least I’m giving her a pretty grandbaby boy to say thanks. The only thing that’d make it even better would be to have my Dad close by. I don’t like the idea of them being apart for so long. Thanks for letting me have her for awhile, Dad. She helps me so much!
Oh yes- and since I’m naming people I love- I have a pretty good husband, too. He is amazingly good at finding the exact food I need before I decide I don’t need it anymore, and very, very good at making me smile when I wake up in the morning. Enough mushiness for now, I think it’s time for a bath.
The Weekend Ends
Sunday, August 24th, 2008The weekend is dying down. It’s another one of those Sunday afternoons that I can’t really remember what it was that I’ve been doing for the last couple of days…
Friday was work and then we all stopped by my friend’s wedding reception to give our congratulations. It was just up the canyon, so we stopped in, said hi, had a brownie, and high tailed it back down. I can’t believe last summer it was me standing in a reception line thanking everyone for coming to see us. From receiving line to receiving blanket in one year. I’d say we don’t waste any time.
Saturday was pretty restful. We went and saw Alicia, Chad, and new baby Spencer. Spencer is such a cutie- 7lbs. and 7 oz. I can’t believe 7 lbs. can look so small. He seems like a pretty laid back baby. You know, most newborns are until they figure out the hunger situation and learn that crying gets people’s attention. Holding him made me want Camper on the outside even more- it’s so close to time. I’m anxious to hold him and wrap him and feed him, and see if with him on the outside this pain in my back goes away…But mostly just to hold him. It was funny during church today- John poked him and Camper poked back. They’re already playing around.
So yes…there was church today, more time checking up on Alicia and family, and then a nap. Hmmm…re reading this post I think I might be boring…but I HAVE been reading a lot more lately! Of the books I’ve really enjoyed there was The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, by Laure R. King. I didn’t think I’d like it at all, it’s kind of a mystery/coming of age type novel complete with Sherlock Holmes and kidnappings, etc. I really liked it though- and it’s a series- so perhaps I’ll have to pick up the rest. Then The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. (What’s with the bee theme?) I can’t believe I had never read that one before. Sad, but real. Then there was Little Men, Louisa May Alcott. It was really sweet to read, but one of those things that you can only take so much of before the sheer goodness of the characters starts to make you feel depressed. I’m kind of excited, because we started a book club at work, and the first one we chose was My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult. I really wanted to start something with the girls at work so that after the baby comes I still have an excuse to see them and get out a bit- maybe even a deadline of something to read. So I’m in the middle of that one, which seems a little weighty, perhaps. But good. And then last night I started reading Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged again. I meant to lend it to a friend, but when I got it out I wanted to remember what makes me so mad at it and still like it so much at the same time. So I guess if my posts seem a little low-action, it’s because most days if I’m not at work or taking a swim with John or my Mom, I’m laying in bed or in my chair and reading something. Here’s to justified laziness as I finish growing my baby :) But as for now, I’m thinking a little walk around the canyon might be in order before I come back home to resume Sunday restfulness.
