Like I’m bursting with life (week thirty-one)

7/8/21

My belly is starting to accidentally bump into things I don’t mean for it to.

7/9/21

I think the thing I will miss most, or one of the cutest things about Baby my cat, when he’s gone is hearing his snoring during a nap. It always surprises and delights me. It’s so soft and funny…and sounds different every time. It never lasts too long, so I try to stop what I’m doing when I notice and just lay close to him and listen. (about two months ago, we brought him to the vet bc he’d gotten really skinny and we thought he had diabetes, but the exam found a tumor, I think in his liver?, and the vet estimated a month for him to live)

“The infinite power is real only, and everything else is a lie.” – Joseph Murphy

7/10/21

I feel like it’s taking me twice as long to do everything – huge top-loading washer at my parents house that before pregnant, I had to stand on a stool and put half my body in to get everything out. Now with my belly, I’m maneuvering in all sorts of positions to get the clothes out of this washer and becoming out of breath doing it. Loading the dryer – the bent over position – I actually had to stop and take a break – my back gets sore so much more easily.

I’m afraid when after the baby comes out, my whole middle will look like a deflated balloon. It’s kinda pretty now- all my skin stretched so tight everywhere. Like I’m bursting with life.