Howdy Humble Readers...
I hope that you're having a great day so far. We had a fun morning of playing and goofing around, and now, I'm happily watching an old episode of Gilmore Girls and listening to my wee little mister snore his heart out.
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From the stuff I wasn't warned about file: I'm in an odd place in terms of my post-pregnancy body. All my joints ache, particularly my hands, hips, knees, and ankles. This happened after Ginny, too, and I found it seems to be fairly common, but why does no one talk about it? It makes sense that we're warned that our tendons and ligaments stretch out and get all loosey-goosey during pregnancy, but why does no one talk about when those tendons and ligaments start going back to normal... the pain is making it difficult to sleep
And from the same file: Nerves and muscles in my abdomen must be on a new level of healing because there have been random twitches and small spasms that almost make it feel like there's a halfling still in there kicking. Bizarre!
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Exciting news for our hobbit-hole! A couple of weeks ago the condo board agreed that we need to replace the patio doors on four of the six units in our building, including ours! Yay! The window guy was here measuring last week, and hopefully we'll have new sliding glass doors before the snow flies! Ones with a screen door that actually slides open. I'm not picky tho... ;)
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I had a nightmare last night that I was being stalked by this crazy woman. She took over my blog and was posting all kinds of insane stuff saying she was me, and advertising porn sites from my online hobbit-hole. Writing it out here, it doesn't sound scary, only nuts, but trust me I was freaked out. I woke up just after 5 this morning shaking and with my heart racing. It took about an hour and a half to shake the creepy feeling, even with reading and watching a bit of a documentary about farmers markets on PBS.
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For all the work I did on the weekend to get the nursery ready to move Pippin in there, I haven't been able to do so yet. I keep telling myself that I'm concerned that he'll start waking in the night again and disturb Ginny. But really, I know I'm just lame.
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Sold another of the real baby items we had... the tummy-time mat. Pip is still doing tummy time of course, but we're actually working more on sitting up. With the bum.bo chair and the bouncer-exerciser thing, and the playpen, and Ginny's reading chair all in the living room, I was just getting a bit claustrophobic. I had to get rid of something. And we have a gazillion receiving blankets to use for tummy time, and they fold up where the tummy-time mat didn't (at least not easily). So why do I feel like crap for having sold it already?
Yay for new doors! I am so. jealous. of. impending. snow.
ReplyDeleteOh, and PS I'm going to be breaking into your account and posting porn. Just fyi.
You're jealous of snow? Are you kidding? As much as I whine about the heat in summer, I gripe all the more about snow. If only it would fall in designated places, I wouldn't mind it so much... on the mountains, on the trees and rooftops, on the lawn. But NOT on the sidewalk, parking lots, or streets. Not demanding much at all, eh?
DeleteIS THAT WHY MY BACK HURTS SO MUCH?! NO ONE TOLD ME THIS!!!
ReplyDeleteIt definitely could be.
DeleteI did some research on it when it happened after Ginny was born. I was going crazy thinking I had developed arthritis or something, my joints were so sore. I had actually forgotten about it until a few days ago, when my knees creaked when I stood up. Every joint feels stiff and my back is in serious need of being cracked.
I am just now getting back to normal (babies are 5 months) - I really thought I was developing arthritis! I had been blaming it on the 10 weeks of bedrest!
DeleteI felt terrible about getting rid of pretty much all the things that I've gotten rid of that Ruby used. We didn't legitimately need any of it but I still felt...sad, I guess. I think it's because we (more than likely) will not be having another little one. (I've also been incredibly envious of other baby bellies lately)
ReplyDeleteWhen I gave away Ginny's baby clothes, I had several boxes waiting by the door for the woman who was coming to pick them up. I kept going back to the boxes and pulling things out. If she had been even a minute later, I might have changed my mind about giving any of them away.
DeleteThanks for sharing about your achy joints. I had no idea that happened post-pregnancy. I'm glad someone is talking about it.
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