Sunday Night Musings

Yes, here I am to blather about some nonsense; I suppose I need to clear my head of thought before heading to bed!

This weekend Julia and I were home alone as Adam had a gig Friday night and then drove up to WI to camp with his family. Sounds like they all had a good time! Our weekend here was a mixture of sheer laziness coupled with some bouts of actual hard work.

I posted yesterday that Julia said "baby" (and this word has not gone back into the vault... yay!). Today while we were playing outside, she pointed to and said, "ball!". She wanted very much to play with a ball right when I was planning to take her in for dinner. Sorry, my dear child! But how exciting... it was a two-new-word weekend! YAY!

Yesterday night... or last night, I suppose... I was really feeling... full. I started feeling really full right after dinner, so at first I figured that it was simply that I ate too much. And then, well, I realized, I didn't eat much of anything. I fed Julia and snacked a bit, but when I looked back on what I had eaten the whole day, I realized it was hardly anything. And then I realized it was that I had felt "full" all day. And I was short of breath. Suddenly I was freaking out wondering if maybe I was going to have a heart attack and die and leave Julia alone in the house buckled into her dinner chair until Adam found us upon his return today... but that feeling of anxiety passed when I went to bed last night and realized that...

... duh, I am 28 weeks pregnant. And, proof positive to recent comments made to me, yes, I am carrying this baby high (as I did with Julia). So... is it any wonder that I am feeling "full" all of a sudden and can never breathe? Duh, Erin, Baby Draeger is running out of room and is moving into your rib cage.

Whew. At least I figured that out and it settled me down. And of course, the feeling returned again today. Yay.

One of these days I might actually realize that yes, I am pregnant; yes, there is a baby in there and not an alien; and yes, sometime in the next 12 weeks we will have a new baby in the house.

Umm. 12 weeks? TWELVE WEEKS???

(I was 28 weeks pregnant yesterday, and there is a VERY VERY VERY minuscule chance that my doctor would allow me to go past 40 weeks considering I am having a planned C-section this time around.)

Wow. 12 weeks.

So, today that hit me kind of square in the head and I mentally made that list of all of the bazillion things I want to do in the next 12 weeks, but I didn't write it down on paper, because, well... THAT would have really freaked me out. Maybe tomorrow.

I also realized today that my beautiful and wonderful iron has been off in Appliance Repair Never Neverland Colorado for almost three weeks now and I better call tomorrow and find out what is going on and when it is coming back. I appreciate that Adam has allowed me to borrow his garage iron, but it's not really cutting it. It doesn't even have a light on it. Or buttons. Or auto shut-off. Gah.

Have I rambled on enough for you yet?

Today was a slightly off day with Julia, at least, until I strapped her in the car seat and hauled her all over hither and yon running errands. It has been rather warm (TOO HOT) this last week, and the poor kidlet has been trapped inside a number of seemingly "nice" days because I think it is too hot for us to be outside playing. Thursday I caved, but man, it took me all night to recover. So, yesterday when the temp hit 91 and the heat index was 98, I decided yet again it was too hot to play outside. Today Julia threw a fit (I think from being cooped up too much this week) and threw cereal on the floor, threw her cup at me, and cried and walked from room to room looking for "a-da" (because I am sure she thought her Daddy would rescue her from her cruel, air-conditioning-loving Mommy and take her outside!). The errands got her outside, and it WAS a really nice day, so I let her walk into and out of buildings (ah, but my child does love her independence!), and then when we came home, we played outside and played outside and played outside and played some more outside. She was outside A LOT today. YAY for Julia! YAY for mommy! I am really tired now. Ha!

Around 6 pm I called my friend Alecia to see if we could pop over... I knew she had two children that would amuse Julia for a bit and I really wanted to catch up with her as well... dual purpose! Hee! We went over there for about 1.5 hours, thoroughly tired Julia out, and left after Daddy showed up. Daddy even strolled Julia home for me and I drove his truck; yay!

Anyway... that is my rambling for tonight! I'm off to bed to read for a bit... and of course some time this week I need to find a good Sepia picture.

Toodles...
erin