I have thought alot about the reasons that I ultimately stopped blogging and it came down to two major things. The first thing is that I am a routine oriented person (I can’t even poop if my routine gets messed up…what does that tell you?) and when I worked part of my routine was having my morning coffee then sitting at my desk and blogging. When I lost my job I lost my routine and therefore blogging fell to the wayside. Another major reason that I didn’t blog while I was off was because our computer is in the basement and there is just no way I can have River play in the basement while I’m down here, I’m sure he would immensely enjoy digging in the litter boxes and going through all of the miscellaneous boxes that are filled with paint, tools and chemicals but I am just not up for yet another call to poison control. On top of all of those reasons I was pretty weighted down with writing for school and by the time I got all the papers done for school I just didn’t have any more creativity left in me (not that I’m that creative to begin with.)
Luckily, I have a new job and I’m only taking one course this semester and it’s relatively easy so here I am blogging again. I have to admit that I like working, granted it does have it’s pitfalls but all in all I actually feel as if I’m a better mother when I get out of the house for 20 hours a week and perform a job other than disciplining a spirited toddler, changing dirty diapers, cleaning the house and doing laundry. I definitely have more patience with River and that makes our time together so much better. I honestly believe some people are better at being stay at home moms than other people. I’m no stepford wife that is for damn sure. I was off for 7 months and I think I may have cooked dinner 8 times and that’s pushing it.
Moving on to my pregnancy! I am due 1/16/08 though I think it’s more like 1/24/08 but I suppose I’ll go with what the ultrasound and the doctor say considering I bought an awful lot of girl clothes based on what that same ultrasound technician told me. I will do a whole post about of this lovely pregnancy stuff but I think I’ll end this with a couple pictures I took today of my fat, bulbous self (see I write fat but do you think that will stop be from eating a donut in a little bit? Nope, not at all. )
This me.
This is me pregnant.
Any questions?
You’re not dead! Awesome!
Congrats on the baby.