My pregnant body #2

Every day I slash through another day finished in my pregnancy with a blue highlighter. It's been approximately 70 days according to the calender. It feels like 700. The pregnancy calender provides details of the baby's development and sometimes tidbits about my "development." Development is actually a good word. It envelops the weight gain, the mood changes, the skin issues, the fatigue and all the other things I am forgetting since I also have pregnancy amnesia. The calender told me I might be experiencing that. Lovely.

I have been feeling less sick. After a good month of colds, stomach bug, nausea and fatigue. I think I may have a grip on the strategies to keep me sane. According to my calender, if I eat small meals all day long the nausea will back off. Only problem, I don't carry a refrigerator with me everywhere I go so I am eating crappy food. I totally intended to keep only fruit for snacks and flavored water or juice to drink...but it's not working. I also wanted to have "me" time every evening and walk my stress of work and pregnancy away. So far all I have done is some resistance band work for my back and a lot of good sleeping. I know this is temporary and that I should be enjoying all of this. One day I am going to long for another pregnancy and the feelings of maternal business. But, today I am wondering why women are wired so insanely to long for this and to FORGET how damn hard it is.

All-in-all I am happy to not be sick. I can't wait to get back to the gym with some of my old energy (when it returns) and put some kick into my step again.

Energy

Feeling zapped, sick, sore and run down has taken over. I could sleep forever. I fight the urge to throw up, skip showers, sleep late and give into my hormonal rages. Work is mentally exhausting on it's own paired with parenting the tired factor is through the roof. But, I manage to make it all happen. Hell, I'm even blogging. Who knew I could keep up with that? That may not last long though. I've run out of words.

Overdue pics

She's the cutest Pooh Bear I've ever seen.

My two favorite people being really cute on Halloween night.

This is my favorite pic of the trip we took to the mountains. It's an outdoor patio of the Inn where we stayed.