Tuesday, December 4, 2007

*Yawn*

This past weekend was insane. Jamie always ends up with a long weekend at this job because if he's coming off nights, he's home for the weekend Friday morning, and if he's going onto nights, he doesn't go to work until Monday night. And it is really starting to take a toll on me.

Saturday was his birthday and he really wanted to go to the waterpark at West Ed. Normally I wouldn't have been thrilled with the idea what with it being so close to Christmas and me being so pregnant (who wants to get in a bathing suit when you're this pregnant?), but it was his birthday and it was what he wanted to do instead of getting a gift from me (although it didn't end up happening that way) and I figured I could take the opportunity to get some more Christmas shopping done, so I agreed.

We shopped and shopped and shopped. And we only spend about an hour in the water park because it was freezing in there. The air, the showers, the pools...All icey cold. Not great for a baby. And to top it off, I was so cold when we headed back to the change rooms that I decided to skip the ice shower and I ended up with a red, itchy, incredibly painful rash from head to toe that is only now going away.

And by the time we got out of the mall, we were both exhausted and it was starting to rain, so we decided we'd just spend the night at Jamie's dad's place. We stopped at Walmart to pick up toothbrushes for the 3 of us and pj's for Addy and by the time we got out of there the ice fog had set in, so we knew we had made the right choice to stay.

I was supposed to go to Veg on Sunday and get a birthday present for Jamie from Addy and groceries to do the big family birthday dinner that night, but we figured we might as well do the grocery shopping ay Stupidstore. Still had to stop at Walmart in Veg, though, to get the gift from Addy, but somehow I got coerced into getting Jamie his aquarium, which was supposed to be his Christmas present. But oh well.

Then lots of company for dinner that night (my kitchen has still not fully recovered) and we went over to the firehall for a bit because the food drive was also that night. Which, by the way, created a whole other mess at our house because when I asked Jamie to get the stuff ready for when they came past our house, he said they don't come down our street. Which they do (and I knew that) and they came down our street first, so in the rush to get the stuff for the food bank together, an entire bottle of olive oil got spilt on the kitchen floor.

Yesterday is kind of a blur. We had to go back to Veg because we forgot to buy formula for Addy, and of course Jamie had to get fish for his aquarium. And the afternoon was spent in bed sleeping by all.

Is it Friday yet because I need another weekend to recuperate from this one?

I was supposed to have a prenatal in Viking tomorrow but Jamie really wants to go to them, and he obviously can't tomorrow, so I rescheduled it for Friday afternoon. Which I'm glad I did because I am way too tired to make the trip by myself and have the joy of figuring out what to do with Addy while my belly is poked and prodded.

I am now in my 29th week. Only another 76 days to go, which is starting to stress me out. I made up my list of the things we need to buy for this baby, which is really quite short seeing as we have practically everything baby-related from Addy. I just keep thinking, though, that I could have this baby in as little as 8 weeks, which scares the hell out of me. I am not ready.

Come next Monday, the pregnancy will be 3/4 of the way done. But I am also not ready for that. I know the last 10 weeks will be tough. Christmas should distract me from it, but once that's over, I will still have, at the very least, 5 more weeks to go (8 till my due date) and I know they will be long and uncomfortable, but at least Jamie will be home every night.

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