My body hurts. I have reached the uncomfortable-no-matter-what stage of pregnancy. And only two months to go. Yippee. I'm finding it increasingly difficult to sleep, which I'm sure contributes greatly to my cranky mood and negative patience levels. I bet my kids are loving that they get to spend all-day, every-day with me. Psyche.
Fact: pregnancy makes me extremely claustrophobic in my own body. As a result my "personal bubble" is at least two feet wider than my normal, already pretty large one. It's more than I can bare to be climbed on, sat on, touched while eating dinner, in-your-faced, clung to, cried on, used as a tissue, or even hugged too many times in one day. Ha, ha, ha...and I have three children five and under, heaven help me...or them, as the case may be.
But tonight, even though I'm ready to bawl my eyes out because my husband is off Elder's Quoraming and my children refuse to stay in their bedrooms and go to sleep, and I've threatened them with every single negative consequence I can think of....Tonight, I am going to try and focus on some blessing and things I'm grateful for, because if I don't, I might scream. So here it goes.....
-This child took a nap today. (This is not a picture of her napping, it's a picture of her sleeping the other night. I didn't want to risk waking her today just to get a picture of her napping.) This is indeed a tender mercy. I doubt Adelia has taken a nap for me in the last month and a half. But miraculously, somehow, today she slept. I didn't have to do anything extra to get her to do it, either. In fact, I've pretty much resigned myself to the fact that she's just going to sit in her room and play every day while she's supposed to be napping. So today I read to her, and sang to her as usual, and left her in there to play with her dolls, figuring she'd have quiet time. Blissfully, she fell asleep.
-This child pooped in the potty yesterday. Maybe you don't understand the full magnitude of this event, let me explain. I have been trying to potty train Ivan since he turned 3, last March. So, we're going on what? Ten months? During that ten months he has pooped in the potty a total of three times. Yes, you read that right THREE. That includes yesterday. Can you see why I'm ecstatic? AND, although he didn't poop today, he didn't have an accident either. Huzzah! I bought him this Superman shirt as a reward for pooping in the potty. I also let him stay up from nap time yesterday and play games on my phone. I want him to know that I am very happy with his accomplishment. I want to encourage a very swift repeat, and start forming a habit. That way, maybe...just maybe, I can avoid having three children in diapers when Oliver gets here. Keep your fingers crossed for me.
-This husband loves me. Which seems like it would be very hard to do as of late. Not only does he love me and put up with me, but he allows me to use him and his technological intelligences for my own selfish pleasures. In this picture, he is redoing our blog background, which is not as easy as it sounds, since I'm picky about what I want, and it requires him to rewrite some of the scripting on the page. Not something I could do for myself. And I am grateful for him, his abilities, and his willingness to use his abilities for his wife's sake. :)
-We are, and have been, healthy. Lots of friends and family members have been sick with one thing after another this winter, and so far *knock on wood* we have managed to avoid it almost entirely. And it's not because I've been good at disinfecting my house. Ha ha. My house. Oh boy, my house. We won't go there. We'll leave it at this: my house is not clean. The end. I took this picture from my driveway this morning. We've been having REALLY bad inversion for the last several....weeks? Normally you'd be able to see a beautiful field, and the snow capped mountains in the background. But not lately. We know lots of people with asthma and other breathing issues who are having a rough time with the inversion. Again, I am grateful we are healthy. I am grateful the inversion hasn't caused us any major problems. And I am also grateful that we recently replaced the air filter in our furnace, so hopefully most of this junk will stay outside.
1 comment:
i love the new background! good work aaron :)
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