Afrin Free! (and still pregnant)

Last week I posted about being addicted to nose spray.  I had purchased a new bottle and put the (nearly empty) old one in the hospital bag.  The new one was a maximum strength and it was too strong for me.  I started needed a 'fix' twice a day instead of just at night.  So, I decided to go off of the Afrin. 

I knew that I needed to be able to breath, so I used the old bottle in only one nostril while I let the other nostril be plugged up and go through it's rebound.  I am proud to say that I haven't used nose spray for 5 days now! 

In other news, I am not sure what to think about this pregnancy anymore.  I have never made it to my due date and now I am one day over the due date with this one.  Daniel's brother has taken our boys already, so the house has been quite (and has stayed clean!) over the weekend.  I have been very tired (sleeping 12+ hours a day) and  EXTREMELY emotional, so it is probably a good thing that they haven't been around to catch my ire.  I have been crying a lot the last few days.  It is crazy. 

I posted a while ago that I could just be pregnant for ever and that I was okay with status quo.  I TAKE IT BACK!  I am ready to begin this new stage of my life.  I have to admit that I am rather jealous that my neighbor who shared the same due date with me had her baby 1 1/2 weeks ago.  I wanted that to be me. 

Last night Daniel and I went out to dinner at Ruby Tuesdays.  I had the BBQ ribs and loved them!  I made ribs earlier this week too!  They are so good!  We had a good laugh when I dropped my forkful of baked potato and it went down my shirt.  Luckily it didn't get stuck in my bra, so I was able to get it out without too much effort. 

I know that the post I wrote titled "Walking Time Bomb" was written when I had very raw emotions.  I am not sorry for writing it as this blog is my journal, but I am sorry if it offended any of you.  I am grateful to be pregnant and I am grateful that people care about me.  I could have expressed my desires and expectations of others long before this time, but I'm still not sure that it would have made much difference.  Now I have people afraid of me and that was not the intention of the post.  What was my intention?  It was two fold. 

First: To say that if you only want to call me to talk about my pregnancy, the baby, or how to contact you when I have the baby, I don't really want to talk.  But if you want to call and talk about other things, please feel free.  However, I have turned the ringer off of my phone, so I am only checking my messages every other day or so. 

Second: I am asking for privacy after the baby is born.  Since I don't know how I will be feeling or how my emotions will be, I need to have people wait until I am ready to come and visit and see Jane.  I might be ready the day I come home from the hospital, but it might not be for a few more days. It all depends on how the delivery goes.  Please be patient with me.  If you are anxious to see Jane, just think about how anxious Daniel and I must be!   

Hopefully we will have a bundle of pink to admire soon!