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October 22, 2009

Run down and ribbon dancing

Still here, still pregnant, still utterly exhausted from the roots of my hair down to my fingernails. Seriously, even my hair feels tired.

I’m realizing that it’s a whole different ballgame being pregnant with #2. The first time around I would drag my sorry self home from work, plop straight into bed and nap for 2 hours. Unfortunately Mads doesn’t do a lot of lounging about in the evenings so a nap for Mommy is pretty much out of the question.

She’s like a little Tasmanian Devil when F and I get home: She runs, yelling, to the door to let us in and then it’s “Let’s play parade!” and “I’ll be Cinderella!” and “You do tricks!” (this is a vague one, but seems to involve me improvising a gymnastics-inspired floor routine of sorts while she cheers. Think Will Ferrell’s ribbon dance in Old School) straight through until bedtime. By the time she’s settled it’s 9pm, then I eat, load the dishwasher, make a pathetic and laughable attempt at tidying up, do some work in front of the TV and then fall into a comatose state until morning. Or, technically, until I have to get up to go pee, which happens three fricking times a night. I’ve been considering a bedpan but oddly F is stubbornly refusing. Go figure.

You know, I’m starting to think that all those times over the past couple of years that I bitched about being tired… that was just a warm-up for the real thing. I’m starting to worry that me and my one-child self have no idea what tired even means and that all you moms of two and three and four and, god help me, five, have been sitting there (or, I guess, standing there, because as if you have time to sit) laughing at me all along.

I’m starting to wonder what the hell I’ve gotten myself into.

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I would like to see a video of your floor routine! ;)

Posted by: Bobbi Lynn | Oct 22, 2009 6:37:14 PM

OK, I laughed out loud here work as I pictured your floor routine (nothing personal - I know all too well from personal experience how those look). You can do it. My girls are 20 months apart and I realized that I knew nothing about what being tired really was before my second was born. But it does get better and then you find yourself wondering how you ever filled your days before your child were born.

Posted by: Sara | Oct 23, 2009 11:43:24 AM

Seriously, who'd be crazy enough to have 5 kids. If it makes you feel any better. I always say the pregnancy tired is warming you up for the newborn stage:)

Posted by: Heather | Oct 23, 2009 6:24:01 PM

Oh, my floor routine is amazing. ;)

Heather - hehe, I was SO thinking of you when I wrote that! :D

Posted by: Carolyn | Oct 23, 2009 9:48:02 PM

As if your hubby has the *right* to object to you using a bedpan! After the 'peeing on the floor' incident(s) circa 1996? Get him to tell you about the 'Wimbleton-train-incident', or about the time he almost got arrested in Budapest if he's ever in the mood to criticize about SBS (small bladder syndrome).

Posted by: p | Oct 24, 2009 4:32:24 PM

I'm afraid you're at the point of no return. Good luck sista'!

Posted by: michelle | Nov 15, 2009 5:15:23 PM