Pregnancy is a weird time in a woman’s life. Don’t get me wrong, it is a beautiful time filled with reflection, but sometimes the reflection turns strange! It must be the hormones, but I don’t think I have ever felt so many emotions!
Ok, so Jeff and I decided to do some errands and get my hour of walking in for the day. We were walking around a shopping center and stopped at Petsmart or PetCo or some huge pet store–hormones also make me forgetful and VERY scatterbrained! We do not have time for a new pet with me going to school, pregnant, Jeff’s acting taking off, and the various extra curricular activities in which my seven year old, Sydney, participates. Plus, Reno Beano, our black mini wiener psycho dog, likes to be the center of attention. Anyway, they were having an adoption drive for over a dozen cats and I lost it.
Poor Jeff, in the last few days I’ve cried over cats (did I mention I’m allergic?), a news story about Paul Newman’s charity camp, the economy, WaMu failing, the movie Knocked Up, a card that he gave me, and I’m sure various commercials. I’ve quit wearing eye makeup! He is still quite confused about my increased sensitivity. He is slowly catching on, but fortunately he wasn’t a sucker for tears when it came to getting a cat. That would be a disaster!
There’s other emotions, too, but right now only the absurd crying comes to mind. I have had some valid reason for tears. It has been a year since Dad died. His friend brought over some personal items that I hadn’t seen in years and that was hard to see. I was so numb when he died that I didn’t really deal with it. I think I have finally dealt!
Some really exciting news is that I can already feel the baby. It is usually after I sneeze. I think it startles him (or her but I have a feeling it’s a boy.) That is really cool and I can’t wait to share it with Jeff and Sydney. I’m surprised that hasn’t made me cry!
2 Comments
October 5, 2008 at 4:05 pm
I miss you. I am looking forward to getting pregnant someday (not for another couple years). Did I tell you Matt & I have decided on having kids after all! It was strange because we were both feeling it at the same time and we both decided the same night to talk about it. Weird, huh? Anyway, he’s decided we need to have at least 4 kids. We’ll see. I was thinking 1 or 2. His idea is that we need to repopulate our country with highly educated conservatives who speak English as a first language. In that light, we should have at least 10 kids! I’ll talk to you soon.
October 10, 2008 at 6:30 pm
I’m sure this is a tuff time of year for you but you plenty of shoulders to lean on if needed. Try not to drive Jeff too nuts with the hormone fluctuations.
) Miss you!! Kelly