The lasts few days have been very…different. I’m definitely starting to feel the limitations my body is setting on me as I venture into the last few weeks of pregnancy! It’s a brutal transition for me…I hate to sit still, and it seems to be all my body wants me to do lately!
Gone are the days of working 8 hours and coming home, putting my feet up maybe 30 minutes then embarking on lofty goals for the evening…paint the nursery, put all the baby’s clothes away, make dinner and do laundry. Hmmm…now that looks like more of a full week to me! Monday night I got home from work with one simple goal: buy groceries (there wasn’t a scrap of food in the house) but I decided to put my feet up instead and that’s pretty much all I did…all night. Tuesday, I had the same goal, but instead of just needing rest, I was in horrible pain, yet couldn’t seem to fall asleep or get any rest. I spent the evening moaning and groaning and trying to get comfortable, eventually going to bed embarassingly early.
The good news is Wednesday I wasn’t nearly as miserable, but still physically tired. I came home and put my feet up for a solid two hours. Then my hubby came home and went to the grocery store with me; strangely enough I just couldn’t find myself up to doing it alone, but I thought I could manage with a partner! And if you ask me what I did last night, I would say I had an awesome date. What did we do? We went to Hannaford at 7:30, got ice cream at Stewarts, hit the redbox, watched half a movie and decided we were tired and wanted to go to bed. Sound lame? I don’t care. We’re consciously savoring quiet nights like this, knowing they’re going to be a lost art soon. And guess what, I was with my favorite person and we had a blast. Sounds like a hot date to me.
I guess this is my new MO for the next month…I’ll keep working and that will steal my best hours (I feel great until about 3 or 4pm) and then I’ll go home and “rest” (aka lie around and stare at the TV or a book, while thinking in the back of my mind about the fact that my entire world is going to change veeeeeeeery soon and veeeeeeeeery quickly)!
Watching half a movie and then deciding we’d rather go to bed has become a pattern for us since we became parents. I don’t know if its a shortened attention span due to keeping up with Ben’s tiny one, or if we’re just consistently to whipped by the end of the day to make it through, but it takes a real conscious effort to sit through a whole movie!
Hang in there guys, you’ll make it, and it’ll be SO worth it!
Oh Libby…how on earth you are able to even work 8 hours this far along is beyond me. I just don’t think I could do it! This morning I had such a hard time getting myself out of bed, the girls ended up playing the role of mommy and taking care of their little brother…getting him up, putting him on the potty and giving him a boost onto my bed for a little snuggle time in front of the TV. Now…after hearing all that…do you STILL feel bad about putting your feet up after a full days work…when your little one (who I know doesn’t seem so LITTLE in this stage of the game) is about to make her appearance any day now?!!!