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So I woke up this morning at 4:00 AM, unable to go back to sleep. I laid in bed for 1 1/2 hours trying and to no avail, half pleading with baby, half pleading with God to just start labor already ...(We had laready brought Julia home at this point, and I was already in labor with Megan) Finally I ended with a half-hearted sigh of "okay okay okay...Just let these last few days/weeks be ones ssurrounded in Your peace and joy, content with where we are, and trusting where we will be. If we must wait, then let these last days be days to prepare me for the challenge and journey ahead... So I know when we do go into labor, the time is right, You have prepared me and You have prepared babe for that very moment and I can rest in your peace."
I rolled up and decided, half out of frustration of not falling back asleep, and half out of frustration of the total absence of any kind of cramping or anything remotely similair to the satrt to labor...to clean my frustration away. The house is a wreck, so I was diffintely not at a loss of "what to do" since I couldn't sleep. I was hoping maybe i'd either clean myself into labor, or at least exhaust myself to the point of being able to take an early nap. "Lucky" for me both girls were up at 4:00AM as well, both of them unable to fal back asleep either...so all 3 of us got up for the day at 5:30 am...Joe slept until his alarm went off at 6:30 then scolded me for doing "his" dishes, theones he'd procrastinated all weekend lol. I assured him he'd have his chance to do some of them, i didn't think i could get them all done, i just couldn't sleep and had to do something besides rolling from side to side in my nest of pillows counting how many minutes it took before whichever leg i was laying on began to fall asleep lol...*sigh*
when all was said and done, 3 hours passed and i had 3/4 of the dishes handwashed and drying (no dishwasher here), laundry started, playroom, bathroom, living room, and the girls rooms cleaned. all toys picked up. living room and hallway vaccuumed (all i could reach without moving the Transformer and I am not picking up a 20 pound transformer at this stage of pregnancy!) I have a load of pinks/reds to fold and to transfer out the load of towels into the dryer, then babysit the coin-op dryer for the next 2 hours or so until they are dry. otherwise i think i am pretty "done" with the house for now....got quite a bit done, although there is still more to do. It is the most cleaning i've done in one sitting in probably the last 6 weeks though.
so my question is....was this nesting? or just an attempt to get my "no baby yet" blues out of my system?... time will only tell i guess...*sigh* but not one contraction or anything during the whole thing...maybe it is all just wishful thinking...? |
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Posted by Anonymous