I Nose It All
I truly cannot complain about anything in this pregnancy. I only was sick a small handful of times. I was tired, but not incapacited. My boobs look awesome. My skin is glowing. My hair is thick and lustrous. Sure, I have to give myself 2 shots a day in my ever growing belly, but I'm almost 23 weeks pregnant, and without those shots, I wouldn't be. But if I haaaaaaaaaad to come up with something...
It would be the snot. I had no idea that a stuffy nose was a common or possible "symptom" of pregnancy. Literally, no idea. Until about 4 weeks ago, I woke up and felt like maybe I was getting a cold. My nose was starting to get stuffy so I found out which medications I could take and got some. I took it for a couple of days but it wasn't helping, so I stopped.
I asked my doctor what was going on, and he introduced me to a little thing called pregnancy rhinitis. Apparantly, it's quite common, and it usually lasts at least 6 weeks. Basically, I have a stuffy/runny nose ALL THE TIME. My nose is raw and chapped and going to bed and laying down is a real struggle. I can't breathe. Otherwise, I'm great, but man, this nose...
Sorry, getting distracted... Ghost is on, and it's at the pottery scene...
But I digress.
Obviously the pregnancy thing is the biggest thing going on in our lives right now. There has thankfully been no job drama with this scary economic climate, and we've been blessed to again adopt an "angel tree" kid and get him a ridiculous amount of presents. We don't buy presents for anyone in my family, and only a few on Brady's, so this is a way we can still get out and enjoy the Christmas spirit without feeling like we're being commercial. It's a great feeling getting gifts for someone, especially a child, when you know they don't have anything otherwise. We chose a boy this year so we could practice buying boy stuff. Brady totally dug shopping for Transformers.
Otherwise, we have trips to take soon for our Christmas' in our respective home towns, but think this will be the last year we go to both places in one year. Next year with the baby, we'll want to be home for Christmas, so we're inviting family to stay with us if they'd like.
I will leave you all with a picture of Joey the WonderPuggle, who would like to wish all of you a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
posted by Tajalude @ 10:39 PM
5 comments
