28 weeks

I guess I missed a few weeks here. I really thought I’d be a better blogger. I feel like I have a lot to share sometimes, but when I sit down to write them out, I realize that all my internal dialogue may not be very interesting to other people. My hope would be that I could get better, but I feel that once the baby is here, I will not have time to record all my boring internal dialogue! We’ll see what happens.

So, there’s not much new. I’m still pregnant. I feel good. My allergies have been terrible. I can only take Benadryl at night and a Zyrtec during the day. For most people that may be enough, but I’m missing my Nasonex, Claratin D and Singulair. That is my usual cocktail of drugs during the summer. Crazy, but it seems to work. This year I’m down to the two drugs and I can certainly tell the difference, but I’m still struggling.

We are taking our first camping trip this weekend and I’m very nervous for that. First and foremost I’m worried about the heat. I am not doing well with the heat this summer. I feel like whatever the temperature is outside, I’m cooking about 20 degrees hotter than that. For anyone who knows me, I am not a happy camper (pun intended) when I’m hot and sweaty! The worst part is that I refused to buy a maternity swimsuit, so I can’t even plunge into the lake when I want to cool off. This also leads to the fact that I probably won’t ride in the boat this weekend either because I need to pee every 30 minutes or so and usually I’d just hop into the lake and pee and swim and then crawl back into the boat. The previous dilemma still applies! To continue the pee dilemma…I really hate to think about getting up in the night and walking to the outhouse. I’m scared when I’m not pregnant, but I tend to be a bit clumsy lately, so I’m really scared to walk outside in the dark. Luckily Jynx is always willing to walk with me, but it just sucks. I know Daniel would walk with me too, but I’d feel bad waking him up.

This post is making it sound like I’m complaining about being pregnant. I’m really not because in all actuality, I love being pregnant. If we ever plan this again though, I will try not to be so pregnant in the summer. Will someone remind me of this someday?!?

On a very positive note, Daniel got our central air up and running this past weekend. Just in time, too. Saturday was miserable. We went to the fair for a while to eat fair food and it was pretty awful outside. It was so wonderful to walk into our house and feel a rush of cool air! AHH! That, and tonight I actually got to bake some chocolate chip biscuits for our dessert tomorrow night and I didn’t heat up the whole house even more!! How neat! I’ve never lived in a place with central air. I’m pretty sure that I will never want to go back now! Good thing. We still have 28 years left on our mortgage!!! We’re here for the long haul! I’m very happy for that, too.

I think that’s it for now. Perhaps I’ll try to do this more often and do shorter more frequent posts. That way I won’t forget all that’s happened. My memory is really bad lately. I thought a lot of the things you hear about pregnant women were myths or old wives tales, but I’m finding some of them to be very accurate! Memory loss and forgetfulness being the thing that affects me most right now!