What's in a Name

This is my Friday evening...a walk with the boys and now I blog as Jack's trucks do a "touchdown dance" and I dodge the volleyball being thrown at me. Daddy is getting dinner. It's hot, I can't cook and have no desire to. I want everyone to do it all for me in these last few weeks. I want to sleep. I want hubby to actually take his eyes off of the TV on the rare occasion that I get a foot/back rub. "That's why you go have it done, I'm not good at it," he says. Yes, I'm sure that's it. I'm not sure I've ever been quite so tired. During the day, I work and work to get ahead, preparing for maternity leave. By the time I get home, I've got nothing, but I plug away. I know I'm not the first to feel this way, believe me. I'm just tired of being pregnant and wonder how I am going to make it two more months. I sit here, sweating under the heat of a laptop and the warm summer air, gazing at my belly and feeling the discomfort of having a four pound melon wedged under my ribs. I want to go up and down the stairs without being completely winded. It's not too much to ask, is it?

The good news is...hubby and I think we are settled on names. Maybe. Boy name is a lock. Girl name...different story. Just when I think we know, another name pops up. There is a name that keeps coming back to our conversations, so we'll see what happens. As for what I think I'm having, I have no clue. A couple of vague dreams, but nothing like I had with Jack. I dreamed I was knitting a pink mitten & hat set and then a later dream where I didn't actually have the baby but someone gave me a three-month old little girl. I was trying to figure out if it was possible to breastfeed her. I don't know what any of this means except that I am weird.

More good news is that I finally got to go to yoga again. It was one of the greatest things I've done since being pregnant. It felt great and I'm looking forward to continuing it through these next eight weeks. I needed something to mellow me out and to work my tired hips and mind. I truly, truly believe in the healing effects of yoga - mind, body, and spirit.

Well, a licking dog, a jumping Jack and a movie (can I possibly stay awake two more hours?) await. It's a typical Friday night and I have to say, I like it.