On the topic of pregnancy weight...

I went in for my every-other-week visit on Monday, and I was informed by the doctor that I have gained 38 pounds. His records are a little off since, before I knew I was pregnant, I lost close to 10 pounds...this little girl was apparently taking all nourishment I put into my body for her development! (Not that I mind one bit!) But, I started at 128 and I am now at 160, with 2 months to go. I am also measuring two centimeters bigger than I am supposed to be at this point...(my thoughts are that I am 2 weeks further along in my pregnancy than we initially thought, which would make me a little bigger than I'm SUPPOSED to be at this point!) While there are a lot of women I know who go to my doctor, every single one of them says the doctor has never brought up their weight...but for some reason, I am the chosen "weight girl" and it's been mentioned on numerous occasions! I am starting to be paranoid..."Is it really too much? Should I do something differently? Do other women not gain this much? What am I doing that I shouldn't be!?" I admit, I didn't like food for the first 4 months and I HATED anything sugary, and my appetite has certainly picked up since then (and for about a month I have really craved sugary foods, but I promise I don't sit around and eat them all the time! I've had a few binges, but they haven't lasted forever) but I don't eat excessively! So, I just find myself wondering...how much do women gain!? Is this really a lot? I don't have toxemia and nowhere on my body is swelling except my stomach, so is 32 pounds at 7 months okay? All you who've been pregnant...am I so out of the ordinary? Or was your similar!? So...to top it all off...we went to the grocery store last night and I REALLY wanted a cake donut...my husband tells me that if I want to get something to eat, I could get a corn dog (that's a TON healthier than a donut, eh!?) or a cheese stick or something like that. (Don't get me wrong, he'd let me get a donut if I really wanted to, but he's probably right...there are healthier things to eat) but the point is, the doctor even has my husband worried about my weight! Argh! So I call my mom when we leave the store and tell her Corban won't let me get a donut. She said she couldn't blame him...so now they're in cahoots. But, the funniest part of it is, we went back into the store later to get some baby wipes that were on sale, and the lady behind the counter offered me a piece of German Chocolate cake. I told her I couldn't because I gained too much weight in my pregnancy already. She insisted that I look great for 7 months and said she sees women who look like they've totally exploded and that I don't have anything to worry about. So, I go about my shopping and decide that I really would like a piece of cake. So while Corban is paying, I went and took her up on her offer. Corban couldn't believe I had somehow gotten myself a piece of cake and told me I was grounded! The lady in the store just laughed when I told her about it on the way out! So, I got to have my cake and eat it too! LOL. And I am pretty sure that cake had a lot more calories than that cake donut! ;)

While I sit at home and watch TV eating bon-bons!

It's interesting how after quitting my full-time job, I get comments from friends and neighbors like "Are you bored yet?," "So what do you do all day," and my favorite unsolicited comment..."I don't have time to sleep in...I work" (as if I just sit around and watch TV and eat bon-bons all day!) For the record, we don't even HAVE TV, and if we did, I don't have time to watch it anyway and have never been a TV watcher (at least not since Jr. High when I watched Saved By the Bell and Ducktales after school!) I am as busy or busier now than I was when I was working full-time. Granted, I do make sure I get my 8 or 9 hours of sleep as opposed to when I was working 3 jobs and burned the midnight oil paying bills and cleaning the house and doing dishes, but that is because I am PREGNANT! Everyone says to get my sleep now because there won't be time for it after the baby, and that is the one thing I am making sure to do for myself! But, once the day begins, it's run, run, run. After quitting my full-time job, I was stressing about how we would pay for Corban's tuition for his MBA (which increased quite a bit once he finished his undergrad classes...$2500 per semester for THREE classes....outrageous, isn't it!?) Things were a little slow right after I quit my full-time job, but clients have steadily increased at LDS Family Services and my other job as well. I am up to 15 sessions per week (that doesn't include the paperwork, phone calls to bishops and referral sources, and preparation for these sessions, which is at least 45 minutes for every hour), a 1.5 hour group, and a 3 hour pornography group. In addition to that, I am trying to get this house baby-ready and get Corelle a bedroom prepared, and I am trying to find a place for all of the stuff that used to be in the office-turned-baby-room since we have no office now. There is never enough time! Corban is gone two nights a week to class and spends much of the time he is home doing homework, and we spend one night a week doing prenatal classes and I have a doctor appointment every other week. I know there is something else I am not thinking of, but the details are probably boring you anyway. But there you have it...the way a "non-working" woman actually has no time to get anything done! And I am absolutely sure that women who don't work part-time stay just as busy cleaning house and being moms...I can't even imagine having other people to care for mixed into this craziness! There is so much that goes into keeping a house clean and organized, eh!? Thanks to the fact that my part-time work has increased to almost full-time hours, I think we are going to be able to make this tuition bill AND get some baby stuff too (no one told me how much it all costs...strollers and carseats and cribs not to mention clothes and hospital bills...welcome to being a parent, right!) So anyhow, I really need to get back to the counseling notes I should have been doing, but I realized what a boring blog I have since I never have time to write anything on it, so I decided to take a minute! My thought is, aren't we just all toooooo busy! Who has time to be bored? Someone I know used to say, "Only boring people get bored." (If it's you, let me know so we can get you credit for your quote!) ;) My husband disagrees with the statement, but it just stuck with me for some reason (whether it's true or not!) But, I can say, boredom certainly isn't on my to-do list!