7 lbs of Perspective
Today is slightly better than yesterday, though I’m still feeling more than a bit funky. I hate being like this. I’m not a whiner, I’m not usually all “Woe is me,” Pouty McPouterson, and I don’t like feeling this way. It makes me feel like a brat. An ungrateful, silly, selfish brat.
Last night, I got a little dose of perspective. Actually, 7lbs 11oz worth of perspective. My dear friend had her son yesterday and I had the opportunity to go visit and hold him just a couple hours after he had entered the world. He’s beautiful, plump, healthy, everything I want for my own babies. It was a real wake up call to prove why I’m taking it easy now: so, in a few months, I can be holding my own healthy little guys.
I think what has me all hung up about this, is I feel like I’m not doing my part in the house. My husband already does a whole ton of stuff as far as cooking and cleaning goes, and I hate that I haven’t been pulling my weight. It would be one thing, and entirely excusable, if I were in the hospital on bed rest. In that case, obviously, it would be understandable that I’m not doing my share of running the house. But, being left to my own judgment of “taking it easy” I feel like I’m just being a bum if I don’t help out.
Bah. I need to stop this. I am sooo not this whiny person.
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In more hilarious news, here’s a funny little interaction between Bug and me today, for your enjoyment.
Bug: Mama, I want cereal.
Me: Okay, what kind?
Bug (pointing @ Bean’s cereal bowl that was still full): Dat kind.
(This was dry cereal, not cereal with milk.)
Me: Well, Bean’s down for a nap and isn’t going to eat that, why don’t you just have her bowl?
Bug: No, I want my own bowl!
Me: Uhm, okay…
I walked into the kitchen, picked the cereal up out of the bowl and dropped it back into the same bowl a few times.
Me (bold face lying): I’m getting you brand new cereal right now!
I walk out, with the same exact bowl of cereal, and hand it to him.
Bug (picking up cereal and putting it into his mouth): Thank you.
Silly kid.
Photo Credit: Julia Freeman-Woolpert
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