It’s a BLAH kind of day.  Heath is sick.  The girls are doing exactly the opposite of everything I tell or ask them.  The house is a mess and Heath is too sick to help me with it and the girls are too lazy (wonder where they get that from?) to help.  It’s been so long since I actually did much housework, I am finding it quite overwhelming. 

I can’t actually bend over anymore, and squatting to pick something up is out of the question.  Makes picking up the floor kind of difficult!  I can sit down on the floor for brief periods of time, but getting up has to be a tad comical…plus it hurts my already carpal tunnel ridden wrists.  As I started a load of laundry then walked down the hallway ( I actually bumped into everything in the hallway), I thought about how in about 2-2 1/2 months I will feel svelte compared to how I feel now!

What will it be like to suddenly be significantly lighter and much much thinner?  I remember with Kalyn and Keali I had to learn to shift my center of gravity again—but the change was easy enough.  Will it be that way again?  Will my abdominal sprain heal quickly, or even instantly?  It would be nice to not have to feel like I am dragging my left leg around.  I’m so excited about the heartburn saying “ta ta for now!” And most especially at the thought of sleeping without having to get up every 1-2 hours to run to the bathroom.  Oh.  I just remembered I will probably still have to get up every 1-2 hours, but at least it won’t be for the same reasons! 

My kidneys continue to be the favorite toy for Kynan and Kaci.  They don’t listen to me any better than Kalyn and Keali do!  I did manage to get the front room picked up and swept.  It needs mopping, but if I even attempted that I would be out of it for the rest of the day.

We have had such a nice cool week, this morning while Heath was feeling a tiny bit better, we took the girls to Craighead Forest Park to feed the geese and ducks and also to play on the playground.  Wouldn’t you know this would be the hottest day we’ve had in a couple weeks! 

The girls had a blast feeding the wildlife—though Kalyn was only happy if the fowls kept a distance of 5 feet away at all times.  I thought Keali was going to try to pick some of them up as close as she got to them.  I found that intriguing because Keali tends to be the more timid of the two.

Since I don’t move quickly, Heath went around the playground with the girls.  He completely wore himself out, but the girls loved the special time with him.  Keali has had a bit of a hard time getting used to preschool and not spending her mornings with her Daddy.  She is always asking him now to carry and hold her ‘like a baby.’  I know he misses his mornings with her too.