I Am Ready For Hibernation

 I am not feeling great today.

I mean I am pregnant so feeling great is usually out of the picture for me anyway. I know it’s hard to believe since this is my fifth time being pregnant but I don’t enjoy the process. I enjoy the baby on the other side (toddlers, on the other hand, are something to just live through) but I don’t enjoy what it takes to grow a baby for 9 months.

She’s a pretty kicky one these days too, which is great and exactly what she is supposed to be doing, but I never get any alone time.  EVER because I am always “with child”.

I am tired today.  I know part of that is that instead of helping us go to sleep last night, our personal time ended up waking both of us up. I suspect hubby is pretty tired today too. We needed that time and connection though so I have no regrets, but it would have been nice to be able to have fallen asleep afterward.

I did spend like an hour and a half in bed reading this morning with my youngest looking at a graphic novel on the other side of me, which was great because she wasn’t talking to me and that felt good but ever since I sat up I have had a lovely sinus headache and a drippy nose and I am just tired you know?

I need to make one small errand today to get some produce and vote and return a package to the post office.
And I will need to sit while my eldest works through her reading program and does a half-hour of typing.  I have no idea what dinner is going to be. Hopefully, the produce will give me some inspiration.

I would love to just lie down again and read some more of my book.

It looks like snow outside. It isn’t snowing because we are in the 40’s ad not the 30’s but it looks like it. There is a crow in the bare trees outside my window. It looks cold.

I am having constant hot flashes though. I keep having to take my sweaters on and off. All this extra blood is making me run hot and probably part of the reason I am constantly hungry that and the baby putting on at least ½ pound a week now. I am grateful I don’t have a scale but every time I get up she feels heavier! I feel heavier and I need to check my center of gravity.

So yeah today I am not feeling so well. But tomorrow I see my midwife (who will assure me that all of this is in fact normal) and we have kids over to play with my kids, and I plan to just take the day off.  The sun is supposed to be out so I can send everyone outside for some much needed sunshine. Also, thanks to the time change the days seem shorter and the nights are getting colder and…

I am ready for hibernation.

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