Maybe One Day...

Maybe one day before this pregnancy is over I will learn to stop when it hurts. Mostly it is that I am not use to my back or hip hurting me. I have been very fortunate throughout my pregnancy to not have many back aches or many aches of any kind. If I spend too much time (which is not very much) on my feet my hips start to hurt me & if I sit too long or do too much bending then my back starts to hurt. Even doing a simple sewing or scrapbook project seems to take a toll on me now. I guess it is the Smith in me that seems to think the pain will just vanish once I am done that keeps me pushing on. When the Smith part of me & reality collide I tend to hurt, usually pretty badly. Walking is not an essential part of life, is it??? It does really feel nice to have everything I need to accomplish done & my list checked off.

I will have to take it really easy for the next day or so, which is fine…I am fortunate enough to be able to take time to recover.

On the other hand I have the baby room is put together & looks great! The carpets are cleaned, the walls are painted & finished, all the furniture is bought & moved in and it all seems to match. The shelves and walls still need a few decorations but in time we will get those things done. With only a little over 10 weeks left I am very happy with the amount we have completed. I plan to get the camera out this week & snap a few shot to post them on Facebook & bring to the baby shower this weekend (which I am SO excited for).

Last Deep Sea Trip For A While

This will be my first official post as an expecting mom! I am very excited, well, when I’m not sleeping, I’m doing a lot of that these days. I have had a pretty easy time so far, but that is considering that I am only a day over 6 weeks, so it is still early. I had my first taste of proof that my hormones have completely taken over yesterday. I know now there will be no more deep sea fishing trips for me in the near future. Usually I don’t get sick at all & if I do it is very mild & short lived, but yesterday’s adventure was a bit of a different story. We took a few friends out to 9 mile reef (about 9 miles off shore) & no sooner did the boat stop was I feeling really bad. It was a nice day as well compared to other days we have gone off shore. I think Steven ended up feeling really sorry for me & we headed back in to fish a lot closer to shore. Luckily we all had better luck closer to shore, me with feeling ill & the guys with fishing. We all caught quite a few fish & a lot of sharks; they really enjoyed the fight that the sharks gave. We ended up with about 4 keepers, over all a good & beautiful day.