Greetings from 4:31 a.m. At which time, I’d undoubtedly rather be asleep, but sadly my pregnant body is tired of being in the lying-down position, so I’m up. Which is kind of ok since I went to bed before 9 last night. My stomach was SO tight last night I could barely move. This, my friends, is getting old.
However, there is one advantage to being up at this ungodly hour. And that is that no one else in my house is up. (ZOMGOSH I just heard Sophie make noise as I wrote this. She BETTER be talking in her sleep.) And since I’ve been off my feet for a few hours at this point, I can get last night’s domestic failures under control. You know, clear the dinner dishes, run the dishwasher, look in Joshua’s school folder to make sure nothing urgent needs to be returned tomorrow.
So, I did that.
And then I clicked through a few blogs. I have been completely out of touch and so busy the past couple of weeks. The only blogs I have even kind of kept up with are Cortney’s and Uncle Paul’s and that’s really, honestly, just kind-of. Not to mention my real-world friends, whom I have hardly seen or even had the energy to have a phone conversation with. I feel like such a loser, that in this season of giving, I don’t have much to give anyone who doesn’t live in my house or in my belly.
The truth is, my kids are demanding. Sophie would rather play with me than watch a tv show these days, which makes me really, really happy. And tired. Because she would also rather not play by herself! If I put on Word World or the Cat in the Hat Knows A lot about That, her two favorites, I can usually get in 15 minutes of dishes or laundry or blogging before she comes looking for me with a book in her hand. And that is good. It is much easier when Joshua gets home from school and they will entertain each other for awhile. But by that time, I’m pretty beat.
So, I guess I am preparing to hibernate for the winter! With a newborn just before the New Year, I doubt I’ll be getting out much.
But hopefully I’ll feel good enough to do dishes at a decent hours. And maybe talk on the phone once in awhile!
