I've never considered myself a crier. Ok, that's not true. From ages 5 - 8, I left the dinner table almost every night in tears. There is a certain older brother who I can point a finger at who may have been the reason for those tears. However, this older brother is really nice now and has been forgiven for the past and the mean things he says now are really funny, so he shall remain nameless. (Unless he makes me cry again...)
However, I don't remember crying much as a preteen, teen, or in my 20's. Then I had children and now I am a crying mess. Tears all the time! Add pregnancy hormones and we might as well buy stock in Kleenex since I am their number one buyer. Since I enjoy embarrassing myself, here are some instances that I have cried this week. (We are only on Thursday, so there is still time to add more.)
- A lovely quote at church. This isn't that weird. I'm a Sunday School teacher for my church congregation and I held it together through the whole lesson until that last quote. I looked up and some other people were teary-eyed too, which I really appreciated. Thank you, fellow criers.
- We were out of strawberry ice cream. After putting the children who don't sleep to bed, I really wanted strawberry ice cream to reward myself, I mean, help with the pregnancy heartburn. I thought the husband had bought Neapolitan ice cream and I was going to skim off some from the strawberry side. But he had not. He had gotten a chocolate/vanilla mix and I sat in the light of the freezer, crying. I eventually ate the chocolate/vanilla mix in misery.
- After having a pretend fight I had with someone in my head. And you thought the last one was bad. It was one of those after the fact, I didn't agree with something someone said and so I was playing out what I would say if I actually knew what to say in the moment. But my imagination got the best of me and it turned into a full-on fight. And I was crying by the end. Pregnancy is crazy-making!
- The Olympics. Fun fact: There has been a Winter Olympics with each of my pregnancies. I cry when people win and fulfill lifelong dreams. I cry when people fall and their hopes for a medal are dashed. The Olympics are a very emotional time for me. I tell Danny, my husband, it is just because of pregnancy, but he tells me I would cry whether I was pregnant or not. He's probably right.
- I dropped a canister of nuts on my toe. To my credit, it was one of the big canisters from Costco and fell from the top shelf of the pantry as I was reaching for the oatmeal right next to it. It caused blood! It hurt!
- Double Charly horses in my legs. This morning, I was awoken at 6:45am from a dream where my mom was telling me about an app she had that gave you college credit for normal things you do throughout the day and she had a couple graduate degrees now from a university in Japan. I really wanted to know about that app! But alas, I was awoken by excruciating pain in both of my calves. It was like going into labor in my legs! I used to get Charly horse cramps in my legs growing up and on occasion in this pregnancy, but never both legs at the same time. I cried out, woke up my husband, and started crying as I tried to get those darn cramps to release. My legs are still sore and I have been feeling bad for myself all day. And yes, I've been taking magnesium, which is supposed to help with such things.
- My sister's text. It was a nice text. She was wanting to get together to celebrate that little baby boy I'm growing. I started crying because it was nice to be thought of. Thanks Sister.
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