Sunny 9 for 2006 September 19 (entry 0)

(2) Tue Sep 19 2006 09:34 Last leg: I'm into the third trimester and last stretch. It seemed like the 2nd trimester went by fast. In some ways it didn't though. I am not only excited to finally get into the month of Dec, but I am so ready for the fall season holidays. I am so ready for the pumpkin scented candles to be burning and for the oranges, golds, and browns to be brought out with Halloween/Thanksgiving decorations. Probably after Halloween, I will be freaking out with all the things I need to get done before the baby comes.

Hopefully I can keep up my energy and be able to do the deep cleaning and organizing that needs to be done just before the baby comes because you can't really get to it afterwards for awhile. I remember when I was pregnant with Lily, just cleaning the bathroom would make me sick the rest of the day because it wore my body out so much and I was more prone to getting sick with her.

I am a little worried though, that I am not going to feel like putting any Christmas decorations up because I will be in the process of having a baby hopefully, or just had a baby. I guess if it doesn't get done this year then worse things have happened. It is so fun to be in the spirit of Christmas all month long. I need to get Aaron onto painting the room and fixing it up. It is a pretty nice excuse that I can't do it with the fumes being bad for the baby and what not. Every time I think about not being able to do things on my own and I think Aaron can do that like put the tree up, I am so grateful because I think there are a lot of women out there that are alone and have no man or person to help them through the very tiresome process of growing a human being in your body and sucking the life out of you, and taking care of the helpless baby afterwards making sure it lives to see the next day. It is all you. Having help makes me so grateful that I don't have to do it alone because that would be one of the scariest and hardest things for a person to deal with. It is up there with getting a divorce, being betrayed, or losing a close loved one.

I am not sure how I went from being in my third trimester to getting divorced but there you have it. I will be glad to finally meet this baby boy whose foot has certainly been acquainting itself with my bladder and ribs.

Comments:

Posted by Jenni at Wed Sep 20 2006 22:50

I'll come over and decorate your house...I LOVE Christmas!!! It is hard with a new baby though--I remember. I don't think we even put the tree up the year we had Caden. We put lights in the windows that year, and that was about our contribution to the holidays.

Posted by Hailey at Thu Sep 21 2006 14:06

I told Ben he has to go and get me a pre-lit tree on Thanksgiving weekend! Who knows if it will ever get ornaments on it?