I went to bed at about 9:00 last night. I slept well until about 11:30 when I woke up with an intermittent backache. I stayed in bed for a half hour, then I got up and took a hot shower. That seemed to help some, but I still couldn't get to sleep. After tossing and turning for over an hour, I moved to the couch. I've been here for over an hour. I'm a bit more comfortable, but I don't think sleep will come anytime soon, so I thought I might as well update the blog!
The baby seems to be fine. He or she (I'm trying to quit referring to the baby as "It") is still very active. Sometimes the head is down, sometimes up, sometimes the baby is sideways. Hopefully a favorable position will be settled on soon. We have less than a month to go as long as this baby is as prompt as the siblings were! We are still working on names.
On Tuesday there was a surprise party for The Man's assistant. He became a US citizen last week! We had a lot of fun and about 100 people from the valley showed up to congratulate him. It was quite a feat to have a surprise party when nearly the whole town knew about it!
The Man has changed his work schedule so he is off on Wednesdays when we drive up north for M's music lessons. M has his piano lessons in the morning, then we go to the library, eat lunch, and M's violin lesson is in the early afternoon. Once or twice I've ventured on up to the big city to do some shopping either before or after the lessons, but I've decided that it makes for too hectic of a day while I'm pregnant. Now that The Man is going with us (or I can stay at home), I can fit a nap in the schedule. It is a lot easier to nap when I'm not the one driving ;) !
Last week was the first time The Man was able to go to the library up there with us. We were able to get a card because of the reciprocal arrangement they have with neighboring counties. That is pretty cool considering it is in the next state! The library is a lot bigger than our local county library, and I'm excited that they actually have most of the books that I search for.
The kids get quite a bit of their schooling done on the drive up the lessons (one hour from our house to the piano studio) and I'm able to help the younger kids with most of the rest of it during M's 1-hour piano lesson. Anything they don't complete is worked on instead of playing in the park after lunch. That's been incentive enough for them to complete all of their work promptly! They look at their library books during M's violin lesson.
Yesterday was busy with a lot of cooking and cleaning. I tried doing mostly supervising, but sometimes if I want something done a certain way, I just have to do it myself. I think the vacuuming I did is why my back is bothering me this morning.
I'm going to try to go back to bed now. It is only 2 1/2 hours until I'm supposed to get up!
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I'm with you on the no sleep thing. The rest of the house is dark and I'm the only one not sleeping. Yes, it is 7am already, but It's still a Sat. morning. No matter what time you get up on a weekday, it doesnt seem to affect my sleeping in on the weekends, except today. I have been laying in bed all night awake wondering if I should keep trying to sleep or get up and turn on the computer. Its a terrible thing to not be able to sleep and knowing your going to need it to get through the next day. I sure hope you are having a girl so that S will have a sister. the boys certainly got their brotherly companions.
I'm also with you... I've been watching Rachael's four darling kids since Tuesday and expecting to sleep in this morning... but no. Ben and Jack got up at 6:20 a.m.!!! Let me tell ya, I'll be taking a VERY LONG NAP when I get done on Monday night!
It's so ironic that the time that you really could use some rest(the time leading up to birth), that you just can't! I used to walk around the house at night, watching everyone else sleep, hoping some sleepiness would rub off on me!
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