Tue Sep 19 2006 09:34 Last leg:
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.