Hot flashes, Indigestion and Bunnies

Nothing like four days of non stop indigestion, reflux and basic horrible stomach pain (all of this would occur in the afternoon and evening...) coupled with a complete lack of sleep along with weird-o dreams and a few pregnancy freak out moments, well I felt I like a newbie to this pregnancy thing. I never had the upset stomach indigestion thing (much) the first time so this is a new, shocking and painful experience. And indigestion - a few times here and there but NOTHING like this.... The sleep thing - well I am sure I had that the 1st go around but I also could lie around and do nothing when I was tired. Now you know there is this little toddler who has needs and wants AND I really want to be there for him and enjoy the time I have with him now. However, sitting near the toilet with a container of Tums in one hand & a glass of water in the other - that is not exactly ENJOYMENT.

OH and one more complaint then I will STOP, I swear. But lordy people the hot flashes and cold sweats... I told Kevin that if this is menopause I would prefer to skip that phase of life, please and thank you. Let's just say that both mornings this weekend I was in a short sleeved shirt OUTSIDE trying to cool off. Then once I cooled off I was HOT but freezing which is just a weird experience to have. SO yeah.

Other then the afternoon/evening illness - heat waves it was a great weekend. No seriously. I mean we had a lovely weekend in the mornings. Matthew was (KNOCK ON WOOD) back to his old self. He was friendly, fun, amiable, and even listened when we asked him to do stuff. We planted 90 million bulbs (and when I say "we" I mean Kevin & Matthew!) There are still a ton more to do mostly green plants that do not have flowers. We went to the local children's museum. We relaxed and enjoyed the outdoors a bit here and there. We went for walks. We had friends over for a little run around time with the kids. Overall it was nice besides you know the gut wrenching pain.

Currently Matthew's big thing is that he likes to help unload the groceries and tells us each item. It is fun and makes putting the groceries away a speedy process! I bought three cards at Kroger on Sunday so I could get a free little stuffed bunny rabbit - yes, I am total sucker but the bunny, it was really cute - and my goodness, you should have seen the look on Matthew's face when he pulled that out of the grocery bag. It made buying the cards WORTH IT! His eyes lit up and he turned to me and said with wonder "For me?" I about died from how sweet he was about getting that bunny! He hung on to that bunny all day yesterday and slept with it and told me he LOVED his new bunny "so much" both yesterday and this morning. He named the bunny Cary and introduced it to his other current favorite stuffed animal Bob the Beaver (whose voice comes from me and sounds like a grouchy old man... Matthew loves it!)

Happy St. Patty's Day to all!

Observed Personal Items

Sleep is elusive if someone (Matthew) or something (Santana) wakes me up at any point AND I cannot fall asleep at night - I sit and stare blankly at CNN or Headline News half the night. I wake up bleary eyed, tuckered out... wanting to just crawl back into bed for slezzzzzzzzzzzzz...

My brain - I am trying as hard as I can to function properly without too much "pregnancy" brain. I decided long ago that that kind of brain is just a state of mind. That if I choose to function properly I can and so far that stupid - er I mean strong attitude has served me well but why oh why when I just map quested the location of Silver Springs MD can I not remember how close/far to/from Bethesda that location is?! OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Like flippin' Groundhog Day.

Driving with me. Do not do it. I scare even me... Kevin & I share a workplace so we drive one car and generally he drives just 'cause I am lazy & tired. This has cut the cost of gas and car repairs but whoa put me behind the wheel whilst pregnant and watch out. I am getting used to the honks and dirty looks again. I was like this with the last pregnancy as well...

Being productive both at work & home. Okay seriously I used to be able to do more than one thing at a time in degrees. I used to be really productive - I almost felt like a useful member of society. Recently, I cannot seem to stick to anything besides TV shows (you know good stuff like the Life of Ryan, The Real Housewives & Biggest Loser) and a good book. Not even a magazine can hold my attention for very long. Work has been suffering for some weeks now - I just want to sleep and also the whole brain as porridge thing referenced above has really made me far more unproductive than usual. Oh and my god please do not stop our hell hole... or that is to say house. It is dirty and smelly and ugh... just gross.

Let us not even get started on the more disgusting pregnancy issues like incontinence because that would be TMI, no?!

You like me might be glad that I am going on vacation... Like I did not just take almost two weeks off at Christmas... I need some sunshine and MAGIC in my life right now - maybe that will get me back on track!? (can you hear the laughter from where you are? Yeah it has not died down on my end either.)