14 Days and Counting!

Only 14 days until the doctor's appointment, when hopefully I will be allowed off of bedrest. WOHOO!

What's really surprising to me, though, is how little sleep I get while on "bed rest". I have to tinkle every 2 hours. Then there's the morning sickness, which hits any time it darn well wants to, no matter how I feel on the matter. During the day there are many phone calls and other interruptions. At night, more saluting of the porcelin goddess. During the wee hours of the morning, I wake up to either tinkle or salute, sometimes both. Then I can't get back to sleep until my stomach settles down. By the time I fall asleep again, a new day has started, complete with phone calls and various issues needing to be addressed.

But there are some advantages to being on bed rest. The "kids" are infinitely happy having a human to curl up with 24/7. I've been catching up on my DVD viewing. My mother hired a cleaning service to give my house a good once over. I have not had to clean a toilet or do the dishes in over 3 weeks. Best of all, my husband has started to realiize how many "little things" I do around the house, and has started to appreciate all the time and effort I put into making things run smoother. I guess he never questioned before how the bathrooms were always stockpiled with clean towels, or how we never seemed to run out of paper towels or toilet tissue, how the clothes magically traveled from clothes hamper to clothes hanger, all clean and smelling fresh. Now he knows. And I think he's come to appreciate my lists more than ever before.

In the meantime, I anxiously await the doctor's visit and long to hear the glorious words, "Get out of bed!"