My husband gives me grace
this I know
for his raised eyebrows and smile
tell me so....
Thank goodness my husband has such a big heart and is so understanding when I am pregnant. I don't see it (maybe) but he says I get offended a lot easier and tend to think he's upset with me a lot. He's really not, I just get jumpy about everything. I usually need lots and lots of hugs from him and just want to sit next to him and hold his hand more. Even if we are both just quiet, it's a sweet reassurance. But no matter how I feel I don't ever want my home to be a place my husband is scared to come home to. Home should be a place of refuge. Some place he looks forward to coming home to. Pregnancy is not an excuse to make everyone uncomfortable around me. I may have to apologize more than usual but I'll never make pregnancy an excuse.
Every time a big change happens in my life, my house always falls apart. Especially in pregnancy times. I don't have the same energy, I'm grossed about by cleaning the kitchen, and I don't have as much tolerance having a ton of kids at my house. Well, not talking about my own. Haha. I mean, since I don't have all that energy, just keeping up with my regular duties is a challenge. Usually we have extra kids at our house from church or just neighbor kids. But lately, I just need so much more down time than normal. Since becoming pregnant, just keeping the house in a somewhat clean state is a major challenge. I'm sure this will pass since the 2nd trimester always gives me my energy back. Goodness gracious! :)
You know, in whatever stage of life I'm in I've learned not to wish for time to pass or wish for a stage of my life to wisk by. It WILL. Even in the hardest days, good things can come from it. Even if it's my little girl seeing my tears and walking up to kiss me on my cheek. Even if I look around me and sigh because the kids made a HUGE mess in the house and I don't have the energy to deal with it... hearing my son Caleb say a new word makes me smile. Or walking out to the mailbox and with a twinge of sadness seeing there is nothing in it, I tell myself "Well, that means no bills! Whoo hoo!." Yeah, the backyard isn't a dream, looks like crud and has no grass. My kids think it's pretty darn awesome and you can tell by all the footprints of little ones running and playing in the dirt. Sure there are lots of dishes to clean, but thank goodness I had food to put on them. Not all of life has to be about disappointments and frustrations. Sure bad things happen. 10% is what happens to us and 90% is how we respond to it.
Speaking of pregnancy and crazy ladies....
Don't forget to
enter the contest on my blog for a gift certificate to use at www.bloommaternity.com. You can use it towards a maternity piece OR for a nursing top! Win it for a friend if you want to. Just enter! :D
6 comments:
I entered the contest and I am sure you are a lovely pregnant lady whether you are a little more needy or not.
love this! i've been feeling soooo needy lately. just exhausted. this was so encouraging. thanks!
I entered the contest, but I'd like to point out that you never post the winners of your give-aways with a screen cap of the random number generator pick that pretty much every other blogger running contests does. When you don't do that, it makes your contests seem super sketch and one wonders if you're just giving the stuff away to your friends, rather than running an actual and fair contest.
Avital, I'm sorry you feel that way. I actually did post the winner on my last watch giveaway and even showed the random number. The reason I didn't do that before is because I didn't know how to do screen shots. Since learning, I was able to do that for my last contest. No, I don't do sketchy giveaways and I post winners on my "Yes, They're All Mine" Facebook page. I also don't pick my friends as winners as much as they'd like me to. It's random only. :)
Sorry! didn't know you had a Facebook page. I always read blogs in my Google Reader, so I don't actually see links to stuff like people's Facebook pages etc. It just kind of bugged me because I entered other contests you had and then never saw winners posted even when I went back to check, but that explains it!
I've had friends pressure me to cheat but I just can't do it because it wouldn't be right. I get pretty low entries in my contests so it's easy to win. Especially if you put a lot of entries in. :) My latest contest has super low entries. Make sure you do all my extras when you enter. That's what I do when I enter contests. But no offense taken! I would probably worry the same. I finally figured out the screen shots and stuff so hopefully that helps. :D
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