Monday, December 11, 2006
I don't have to babysit at all this week.....which is nice, but means we will be short on money.
I need to go grocery shopping today, stop @ Target & Walmart to edit/add to my gift registries, and clean up the kitchen. Then I'll hopefully have time for a nap, make dinner, and then go to choir practice.
I haven't mentioned much (if anything) about Christmas choir practice. Mostly because I want to spare you from having to read a long rant about how much I dislike it and wish I didn't have to be a part of it. Yep, I HAVE to be in it. I have no choice. I'll just say that it's taking away from, not adding to, the little bit of "Christmas spirit" I might have had. I'll be glad when Dec 25th has come and gone.
On a positive note, I am 22 weeks along today. Woohoo! I enjoy being pregnant. Yeah, my hips and back bother me, and I'm exhausted for no reason all the time.....but it could be SO much worse. I love the excitement and anticipation of knowing that we will have a new addition to our family in just a few short months. It's tough to gauge DH's excitement about the whole thing. I know he's happy about it, but I'm sure it won't become REAL to him until the baby is actually here and he's a daddy.
Last week at church, he was holding our friend's 3 month old baby and it looked odd to me. I realized then that I had never really seen him holding a small baby like that....or if I have, I've never had a reason to take notice. It was sweet. He looked uncomfortable, like he was wishing someone would come take the baby from him....and I wondered what it will be like when he has to hold a baby on a regular basis.
But I then I got to thinking about it and realized that I also feel like that when I'm holding a small infant. Unless the baby is in a deep slumber and not wiggling around at all, I usually feel like a big clumsy oaf that has no idea how to hold a baby. Don't get me wrong, I have no worries about it, I just thought it was an interesting observation. I know that DH and I will learn together, and somehow holding our own writhing, slobbery, head-wobbling little dear will be unthreatening and natural. (patting tummy) It's amazing how much I already like the little booger.
I need to go grocery shopping today, stop @ Target & Walmart to edit/add to my gift registries, and clean up the kitchen. Then I'll hopefully have time for a nap, make dinner, and then go to choir practice.
I haven't mentioned much (if anything) about Christmas choir practice. Mostly because I want to spare you from having to read a long rant about how much I dislike it and wish I didn't have to be a part of it. Yep, I HAVE to be in it. I have no choice. I'll just say that it's taking away from, not adding to, the little bit of "Christmas spirit" I might have had. I'll be glad when Dec 25th has come and gone.
On a positive note, I am 22 weeks along today. Woohoo! I enjoy being pregnant. Yeah, my hips and back bother me, and I'm exhausted for no reason all the time.....but it could be SO much worse. I love the excitement and anticipation of knowing that we will have a new addition to our family in just a few short months. It's tough to gauge DH's excitement about the whole thing. I know he's happy about it, but I'm sure it won't become REAL to him until the baby is actually here and he's a daddy.
Last week at church, he was holding our friend's 3 month old baby and it looked odd to me. I realized then that I had never really seen him holding a small baby like that....or if I have, I've never had a reason to take notice. It was sweet. He looked uncomfortable, like he was wishing someone would come take the baby from him....and I wondered what it will be like when he has to hold a baby on a regular basis.
But I then I got to thinking about it and realized that I also feel like that when I'm holding a small infant. Unless the baby is in a deep slumber and not wiggling around at all, I usually feel like a big clumsy oaf that has no idea how to hold a baby. Don't get me wrong, I have no worries about it, I just thought it was an interesting observation. I know that DH and I will learn together, and somehow holding our own writhing, slobbery, head-wobbling little dear will be unthreatening and natural. (patting tummy) It's amazing how much I already like the little booger.
Labels: church, general complaining, pregnancy whining
posted by Unkempt Mommy at 8:50 AM
3 Comments:
Ahhh, 22 weeks! Time flies, I swear.
You know, between you and me and the everybody and their brother that reads your blog...I don't like holding babies. I never have. It makes me nervous and frankly, I've never been a baby person. But, and it is a huge but...I love my son and loved holding him and didn't think a thing about it. So when it is your own kid...you are totally a natural. Same with your hubby. It'll be like second nature. And once you have your own baby, you'll be able to appreciate other peoples babies but holding them will still be weird. You don't totally get fixed just because you have a baby. Atleast, I didn't. Maybe that was waaaay too much info...
You are going to cringe, but I had another ultrasound today.
I was never a baby until I had my own. I had never changed a diaper or babysat. But when I had Katherine almost 11 years ago I felt totally natural holding her. Now that I've had five of my own I comfortable holding other people's babies.
In fact, now that our baby years are behind us I like holding other's babies. My babies are 3.5-not really babies any more :(
I only hold my friend's babies, lest you think I'm one of those annoying women who try to snatch you wee one from your arms the second you let your guard down.
Have to edit my first sentence. It should read I was never a baby "person." Of course I was once a baby myself!
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