by lcreekmo on June 14, 2009
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| None of these fit. |
I was so worried this would happen again. And until the very end of my pregnancy, it seemed unlikely.
My feet have grown another half size.
If I weren’t already sure that the baby is the “third and last” child, as I’ve said ad nauseam, this would be the final straw. Because I’m having to get rid of the vast majority of my shoes, just like I did when the 10yo was born. [Yes, she's 10 now. It's been a busy few weeks here at Fixin' Supper.]
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| Some of these fit. Sort of. |
Even my list of shoes that still fit is fudged. The clogs and the duck boots really do fit. The brown heels sort of fit. And the sandals don’t really. But I LOVE those sandals, and they don’t hurt, so I’m going with them for the rest of this summer, anyway. Meanwhile? Every single other pair of shoes has got to go.
First to be replaced: The Sauconys. Then, some black heels. Then I guess I should buy some brown heels that really fit, instead of just sort of. And I’ll be praying for lots of rain this summer so I don’t look too stupid in those duck boots.
by lcreekmo on April 19, 2009
Despite what seems like never-ending rain, I’ve been doing a lot of garden work in the past couple of weeks. A lot of it has involved transplanting half the tomatoes I started from seed into regular pots, out of their seedling trays. I need to do the other half today.
But I’ve been delaying about one of the most manual-labor-y tasks I have in the garden — and I finally decided yesterday morning that I simply couldn’t delay one moment longer: I had to build the trellises if I wanted to get the tomatoes in on time.
[Now, right off the bat, we can acknowledge that this is pregnancy nesting in some form, because I've planted tomatoes well into May and still gotten lots of fruit. But, I don't plan to be doing any planting in mid-May this year, and we'll certainly have tomatoes a lot sooner if I hurry the heck up and get those plants in the ground.]
So yesterday, I had Ashby help me unroll the fencing I’d bought to create the trellises from, I cut it, and I wired it to the poles. For the most part, it was like building a chain link fence, if you’ve ever done that. A lot of pliers and wrapping wire and crimping it. While no one would call that fun, I’m pretty good at it, and I find a lot of satisfaction in accomplishing manual tasks like that.
Let me NOT recommend this method of trellising to you if say, you’re 36 weeks pregnant and you have had rheumatoid arthritis, so your hands get tired and cranky easily anyway.
I’ve had trouble with my hands swelling the past couple of weeks, due to the pregnancy, but as long as I don’t use them in some way really out of the ordinary, they’re always better in the morning.
Building a fence or a trellis does not fall into “the ordinary” for my daily activities.
So I knew after getting the first two trellises set up that my hands were going to be in bad shape. But I figured, no need to go through this twice. Might as well push on through.
I got all four in place and secured, but it started to rain as I was finishing the last one, so I took that as a sign. It won’t be too much effort to finish it up later this week once the weather improves. [It's pouring rain at the moment.]
Let’s just say my hands were not amused. And of course, after I finish doing that kind of work, I’d normally pop a couple of Advil…which you can’t do while pregnant. I barely did anything with my hands the rest of the day, and spent quite a lot of time with them over my head, but they kept me awake a decent portion of the night. The whole pregnancy swelling thing is strange to me. It doesn’t hurt, exactly, but once you get past a certain point, you are hyper-aware of your hands or feet. You can’t stop feeling them.
They are much better today and should be back to normal tomorrow, based on my recovery from other over-the-top things I’ve done recently. And as soon as we get a couple of sunny days later in the week, I’ve got a lot of tomato and cucumber plants and lima bean seeds going in the ground.
by lcreekmo on October 29, 2008
Now, I’m not turning into a pregnancy blogger. I actually have done a lot of cooking lately, but I need to get my pictures and my thoughts all in the same place. More coming on that front.
But in the meantime, I have two small items to share.
- My next door neighbor is so far winning the “best reaction” contest. The 9yo is now in the habit of going around asking me, “Did you tell her/him?” [Whoever we happen to be talking to at the moment.] And so then she is excited to announce the impending arrival. This evening, our neighbor was walking up the drive as we came in from dinner. The 9yo rolled down the window to tell her our news. And upon hearing, Susan dropped her mail and her jaw. We all cracked up!
- Second, I had given all my maternity clothes to a good friend a few years ago. I emailed her earlier this fall and said, Hey no big deal if you’ve given them away, but if you haven’t, can I get those back?? Heh. So they arrived this week and I eagerly opened the box, looking for a particular outfit I remembered. I wore it to work yesterday. Just as comfortable as I remembered from 10 years ago. But….let’s just say that pants looked really different 10 years ago. The pants were ankle length and very narrow at the ankle. So I put on my brown shoes, and there was a big problem. An inch-wide gap between my shoes and my pants. Sigh.
I guess I am going to have to buy new brown shoes, which is a better solution than not wearing those pants again, sadly. My existing brown shoes work great with every OTHER outfit I have. But I am not exactly fitting in lots of those other outfits these days.
