Week 7

And here begins the seventh week of pregnancy. Still no sickness, so I really shouldn’t complain. But HOLY SMOKES I am soooo pooped. No one ever talks about how incredibly tired you are in the first trimester. I can barely even function. I wonder how I survive the work day. It would be so nice to be tired, go to bed for the night or take a nap, and then actually wake up RESTED. I just wake up and think, wow, I’m still dead tired.

Today, I woke up around 8 am. I got up feeling great because I actually got a good night’s sleep last night. I’m not so fortunate every night.

So I get up, eat some cereal, and hop on my laptop for my morning routine…email, weather, random crap. I think today is going to be a great day. A few minutes later, I am sleepy again. And I remember that two Sundays ago, I woke up feeling similarly fantastic and then, just minutes after declaring how rested I felt, I returned to bed to sleep for another hour and a half. This week, we can’t miss church because Pete is volunteering in media, so I really have to pull myself together. I still went back to bed and snuggled on Pete for another 10-15 minutes before getting up to get ready to leave. 🙂

After we got home, we ate lunch, and I had just a feewwww minutes to nap before meeting my family for my mom’s birthday (which is actually tomorrow). I think I slept for maybe 20 minutes. I could have handled a somewhat longer nap, so I apologize for my zombie-like state this afternoon. -_-

After I got home, I stayed up for a while until I suddenly couldn’t stand it anymore so I laid down on the couch. I slept for something like two hours. Maybe a little less…I didn’t see the clock before I conked out. I woke up feeling…GUESS WHAT? DEAD TIRED. I’m not really snapping out of it, either. But I guess I feel marginally better.

So that’s how I feel about being seven weeks pregnant. I’m happy, but I keep thinking it would be nice not being a zombie all the time.

Pete took a picture of my tummy this evening so I could post it for your viewing pleasure (ha). This is mostly just so I can look at this in a few months and be depressed remember where I started from. 🙂