Clean Sheets!!....OKAY?!?!

So, yesterday I changed the sheets on the bed where Audrey and I sleep, for the first time in, oh, almost three months! (I did change the pillow cases at least once during that time; those get gross.) That is just how crappy I have been feeling for the past three months, willing to sleep in all manner of disgusting things, willing to put my CHILD to bed in such sheets, because I was not up for changing them. But now, just this week, I am finally feeling pretty darn good! (Although, as I write this, I can tell I'm coming down with Audrey's latest cold. Grrr....) The morning sickness and fatigue have abated!! My kitchen is 80% totally scrubbed clean for the first time since August, I did three or four loads of laundry yesterday, Audrey had a bath, my house is half-way decorated for Christmas---all this in just two days!!! Amazing!!! [You know how good it feels to climb into clean sheets? Imagine MY pleasure last night, slipping into clean sheets after so many months of the same, nasty bedding!!!!]

But, all is not clean-sheet bliss around here. With the passing of the morning sickness has come new fun: acne and major bitchiness. It's like I'm thirteen all over again, only this time without the bad perm (shudder...). I feel so sorry for Audrey and Danny, who are bearing the brunt of my snappiness. Audrey is transitioning out naps and has a cold, so she is WHINY and crying for half the day, and my tolerance for that kind of communication is very low. Poor girl! Danny made some comment to me about our house-hunt the other night and I about bit his head off. "Was that an annoying thing to say," he asked, genuinely perplexed by my heated reaction.

I really think the mega-bitch problem is due to low blood sugar. I am so FREAKIN' hungry ALL the time--even right after I eat, which is SO annoying. I can't eat any of the high-fat, high-cal yummy foods that could provide extra calories (ice cream, cheese, butter, potato chips) because of the skin prob. My house is stocked with super healthy foods that probably take as many calories to prepare as I get from eating them. If you have any stick-with-you food suggestions, please let me know! My family thanks you in advance.

Population Control

After having Audrey, I was feeling kind of sad about having only two kids, since that's what Danny and I agreed to, and that's what makes sense. But when she was about one-year-old, everyone around me was pregnant and I went SO baby crazy, thinking, "Why should the religious wackos be the only ones to have ten kids? Shouldn't the enlightened, intelligent, progressive among us also birth a 'quiver-full' to counteract the scary, miseducated conservative Christians over-populating the country?" (Read Mark Morford's excellent columns on liberals breeding, and on the Duggar family.)


But NOW, now that I am actually knocked up again, I am saying THANK GOD that Danny only wants two kids because I am NEVER doing this again!!! I am wondering how that Duggar woman has spent so many years of her life pregnant. Because it is a pain in the ass! And it makes you feel...not right a lot of the time. But I guess pregnant-weird is her normal.

I think if Danny were not an environmentalist, he might want me to pop out even more kiddos, because dude is BABY crazy!! He gets more excited around babies than I do these days. Mr. Mush. [I am actually feeling excited about Baby Two, also. We'll hopefully find out the gender in a couple weeks, and we've started talking to Audrey about it.]

So, when the times comes, Danny has volunteered to go under the knife to make sure we don't inadvertently follow in the, um, footsteps of the Duggars. I worry a little about the possible finality of such a procedure (especially if something were to happen to me, god forbid, and Danny remarried), but we are just TOO fertile to not take such measures!!! And, Danny already has a support group at work, some guys calling themselves The Clipper Club. Thanks, hon!