I'm clumsy, crazy, and a bad wife.
Posted
Monday, May 05, 2008 1:25 PM
Clumsy: I'm a mess lately. I bump into walls, drop everything, and knock things over like it's my job! So this weekend I had to pick up a parking pass that a friend left in his mailbox for me. When I flipped up the lid to the mailbox (mounted on the front of the house, not the kind of mailbox that is a separate unit at the end of the driveway), there was a ton of other mail in there. So I popped up on my tippie toes and looked down into the mail slot, only to have the (unbeknownst to me) spring-loaded lid come slamming down onto the bridge of my nose. Mother F*&#@er! Now I have a huge knot and purple mark across my nose. Awesome.
Crazy: I am so looking forward to labor. How weird is that? I am scared to death to bring an infant home that requires my constant care and love...but bring on the labor! I think I just want to know what my experience is going to be like. For a writer, it's all about the story. So I want to know what mine will be. Plus I can just envision my husband holding his newborn son that he so wanted, the look on his face, and I know I will just die.
Bad Wife: I rarely feel BoLi move. I felt it that one night I told you guys about, but that's about it. My brother came into town this past weekend to go to the Derby with my husband. Before they headed off for Kentucky, my brother asked me if I've felt him kick yet. I said I felt it once laying in this certain position. So I got in that position on the couch and let him grab ahold of my belly, a position that freaked him out too...he kept asking, "Are you sure I'm not crushing him?" And wouldn't you know it, BoLi pushed right back against my brother's hand. He leaped back when he felt it, like he saw a spider. I laughed, and then I looked over at Chris. I'm so stupid! Duh, of course my husband would want to feel his son kick before my brother! I said, "I'm sorry you weren't the first one other than me to feel him...come here." He wasn't upset, he just slipped right in with this determined look on his face like he will feel it this time. And he did. And he did the same thing my brother did, leaped back all weirded out. Boys.
When Chris came home on Sunday, he said he was telling all the guys at the Derby how cool it was to feel BoLi before he left. I'm so glad he isn't upset that it wasn't him first. But that's my husband for you, not worried about crap like that.