The Calm Before

So things have definitely taken a turn.  If you asked how I felt the past few weeks, I would say "Great!"  I was working hard at work, swimming at lunch, and feeling pretty good.  Then the piano jumped on my back this week.  I guess it is the combination of the weight + heat + baby on her way that has made things so much harder.

I cut my caseload down at work to 50% this week, and it was the right thing to do physically (although my pay check does not like the 50% decrease.  Next week I am also going to work 50% and then that is it.  Finito!  So, just a few more days of work.  I have definitely been struggling to be a good PT to my patients, so it is time to make the break.

Everyone says I will get bored at home if I don't work up until the baby is born.  Bored?  I have never been bored in my life.  And how could I be bored with these two?  They have LOVED that I have been home more recently.  This morning they blocked the front door from more as if to say...."nuh uh, Missy!  not without our walk!"  I LOVE these two.  I love every minute I spend with them. 

This morning I picked up a strange mountain man on my walk.  :)  

 

I think I am now just a walker.  I still keep trying to swim, but I kid you not, I continue to be sabotaged.  For the 2nd time this week, I worked my schedule around the pool, took the extra pregnant effort to get swim ready, and then get out to the deck and a kid had puked in the pool thus causing contamination evacuation.  I was determined to not be derailed yesterday, so I went to a pool where I had to pay to swim.   I think I might have made it 1000 slow and "why am I here again?" yards before I just got out.  I wasn't really discouraged, it was more like I had come face to face with my pregnancy and the fact that my body is dramatically slowing now.  The end is nearing :)

Baby preparation calls for some extra cleaning.  I haven't had time to "nest" yet, but I am hoping I will be able to do that soon with the time off.  I have been trying to deep clean a little here and there, and this weekend I came across a roll of film that looked like it hadn't been developed.  What a surprise!  It was from 2005- pre-wedding stuff.  For those of you that don't know, I do not really have any pictures of Dave and I at our rehearsal OR our wedding.  I kid you not.  No one took any of us at the rehearsal, and the photographer took maybe 2 pictures of the two of us at the wedding doing things like cake cutting.  (but I have plenty pictures of my friends!) 

But, on this roll of film, there was a single picture of Dave and I on our wedding weekend (this was rehearsal dinner).  So exciting!!!!  And of course some cute pics of me and my sister partying a little bit.  Maybe I should clean more often!