- Oh my fucking god I just had the longest day which makes me a wonder and delight to be around. (I'm sure I've written that before - dammit.) It got especially bad when I got out my sternest look and finally convinced Marie to go to sleep in her new room when a certain someone I may be married to started to make a shit ton of noise downstairs. Next thing she's standing at the top of the stairs shouting she wants to go out to a theme park. I may or may not have exploded at two people, who are now on their own to get one of them to sleep again.
- This longest day was spent quite productively at least. Out with my mother and the children to buy some breastfeeding bits and pieces. There's this new shop in Brussels which is just brilliant. It's filled with only breastfeeding clothes and accessories. Fashionable clothes, frilly lacy bras (with matching frilly knickers!), presentable PJs and nighties for in the maternity ward. I had given up hope, really. Never thought this kind of thing existed. But it does! So hurray!
(Anyone in the neighbourhood wanting the address, send me an email.) - After that, we went to have lunch in a zoo on the way back. There was a huge downpour while we were sitting eating on a covered deck, surrounded by greenery. I was deliriously happy to have all the elements all around us. The wind, the rain, the thunder overhead, all raging in the plants around the terrace.
Afterwards, we went to check out the progress of the baby lions. They were quintuplets, but now there are only four. The smallest one was limping and staying behind last time we saw him, so it wasn't a surprise but still a little sad. The other four sisters are thriving. - Back at home, Babes had to stay late at work again (yes, the slut hasn't tired of him yet apparently) so there was still dinner to organise by myself and potties to empty - that kind of thing.
- Now I just want to flop into our big new sofa, but it has a weird new sofa smell which is upsetting my inner hypochondriac - I'm sure it's some horribly carcinogenic chemical which is slowly killing us all.
- My world is tiring today. But full. So it's all good.
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Too bloody exhausted for words
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I keep checking your blog for an announcement! The breastfeeding shop sounds amazing - you're so lucky to have something like that available.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking about you - good luck!
Yep. Don't you have that baby without telling us you're in labor. WE NEED TO KNOW SO THAT WE CAN BE SENDING YOU ALL OUR MAGICAL JU-JU POWERS!
ReplyDelete@Calif Lorna - Babes has promised to somehow get me some internet in the hospital so that I can announce it to the world!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the good wishes.
@Ms. Moon - I would if I did. Of course. If I did.
I'm watching people's progress on facebook, it's great :)
ReplyDeleteMwa is breathing... breathing... :)
Today sounds good, except for the patter of little feet after bedtime. I HATE that. Though the theme park demand is pretty funny.
I hope you get your rest in a beautifully non toxic environment - I would say an open window would render your new sofa safe enough to sit on. You're going to need it when you're stuck in bfing for the next few weeks!
Hope your wee man comes to you soon, Mwa. C'mon, little fella! :)
So, still kicking your heels, then? Isn't there a Tom Petty song that's almost about this?
ReplyDeleteThat lunch at the zoo sounds like heaven to me.
ReplyDeleteI read about a company that made sexy breastfeeding underwear once - called Hot Milk. I've always remembered the name. It made me feel slightly weird!
ReplyDeleteLike the others I am dying to hear your announcement....
@Jo - I'm trying force of will to bring on labour. My will is apparently not strong enough.
ReplyDelete@Steph - It was great. The children loved the violence of the weather as well.
@nappy valley girl - One of the bras I got today is by Hot Milk! It is slightly weird, but I love having a lacy black and purple bra to wear when breastfeeding, because the other ones are so bloody functional! This one is all gothic chic.
Jeez - your breastfeeding garments sound so much sexier than the drawer full of over-the-shoulder-boulder(*ahem* Hershey's kisses is a more accurate description)-holders that I have from VS.
ReplyDeleteAnd how - dear heaven - do you have the energy to do all that IN ONE DAY at 9 months pg??? I barely have the energy to do all that in a WEEK with my pair of reprobates. Go girl. Do you have any idea what an inspiration you are to me???
You're a Goddess xx
I am SO with you on that sofa smell. And I'm not even pregnant!
ReplyDeleteMmmm...that zoo lunch sounded so much fun I think we might make another visit to ours. As for the 5th baby lion, I'm thinking it's maybe just in lion-hospital getting that limp sorted out followed by intensive physio...
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the labour. Can't wait to hear all about it!
Stay away from shower curtains too. Seriously. You're in the home stretch!
ReplyDeleteoh i envy you. will be thinking of you x
ReplyDelete@Nicola - I did have my mother to drive me around and keep the children in check. I don't think I'd have managed it otherwise.
ReplyDelete@Expat Mum - It's freaking me out, which is a shame because it's SO comfy!
@fiona - Yeah, I'm sure it is. Just the way that dog we had when I was little is still living on a farm... :-)
I checked on their site, and apparently the little one was so weak he was having trouble fighting his sisters for his mother's milk. The mother gave up on him one night and didn't take him into the night quarters. Sad but true.
@GingerB - Okay. ?!?
@Reluctant Memsahib - Thank you. I'm thinking of you, too.
It's great to be happy, isn't it? LOL...
ReplyDeleteBusy, busy, busy. Wow, you must be so tired. Make sure you are taking time to take care of yourself!
ReplyDeleteI wouldnt be able to do NOT preggos what you are doing in one day. You amaze me.
ReplyDeleteand Hot Milk! OMG I wish I had known. I wore boring "grandma" nursing bras; at least they would go with my new grandma underwear now.
i hope you can get some rest in the coming days. You will need all your energy for the big DAY!!!
Hi there, Ive come to you via Bare Naked Mummy. How exciting for you to have a baby on the horizon. And congrats on finding some decent feeding wear, its certainly hard to come by.
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