I feel bad for not posting in a while.. We had two conventions back to back and I have been fighting a cold/virus/whatever for about a week. We unfortunately got very little sleep at this past convention and I’m fairly certain my body was completely burned out when we got home on Monday. We have been sleeping a little extra every night trying to get back to normal, but Dave has come down with a cold and I miraculously haven’t contracted it.. yet.. It’s probably due to the 10+ hours of sleep and I won’t complain.
I know I need to post a belly photo, and I will do my best to get it done later today. I’ll just update it here. As of today I’m 25 weeks and 3 days. It’s weird to think that in about 4 weeks I will hit the 30 week mark. It’s really really strange to think about how fast time is going when I don’t pay attention to my dates for a while. In fact, in less than 3 weeks I’ll be in the 3rd trimester. I have almost fully accepted that I will not feel normal until this baby is actually born. I kept hoping and hoping that the morning sickness would subside especially after the hyperemesis went away, but it feels like the nausea is a permanent pregnancy symptom. If it goes away, great, but I really don’t think it will. Even on Thanksgiving I barely ate and then felt sick afterwards.
There are still so many things I want to talk about but my energy is just gone right now. Finals are coming up very soon and then we’ll be off to Maine for Christmas. I guess I’m a little nervous about going to Maine... not because I don’t think we’ll have a wonderful time, but because I’m still feeling under the weather and I know Dave is going to want to see everyone. This also means that I have to do the majority of the driving because he can’t see well at night. We were originally going to fly, but coming into the Portland airport is too expensive, and taking the train is almost just as much. Bussing would be too unreliable and I would be extremely uncomfortable. This leaves us with the Jetta once again.. our trusty little VW that plows through the snow like a 4WD thanks to our fancy all-weather tires. I’m definitely excited about going up to Maine again to see Dave’s family and friends, but I just hope that I don’t feel very sick this time.
After we get home from Maine, my sister is coming down from Iowa and we’re doing our own little Christmas at my parents’ house. Even though my family is out here and we’re still celebrating together, it’s so strange to not be back in California this time of year. Every holiday since I moved has been a little off.. I miss Thanksgiving dinners crammed into my aunt Diane’s dining room and Christmas Eve at Deacon Dave’s with the massive light display. My aunt and uncle had their first Thanksgiving in 30 years without everyone gathered around their table and that broke my heart a little. I wonder if I’ll ever get over not being back home. Maybe watching our kids grow up around my parents’ dinner table will make it feel more like home.. And soon enough we’ll be taking the kids out to California so they can see the lights and walk Union Square at Christmas time. It’s not like these places are going away, they’re just far away and I should think of it like that more often. Well, Dave seems to think that California is eventually going to crack off into the ocean one of these days.... sigh.
~Christine
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