Hannah's sick and not coming over today, making this the first day I'm home all day with 4 kids and no other adult. I pondered calling up one of my friends who has offered a play date, but I have to drive out to the midwife's house this afternoon and I don't want to add another drive in the other direction. So we're going to have a light-school day — I'll teach reading and history, and assign a few pieces of independent work, and read aloud. Then I'll spend some of my work time doing planning instead.
I hope to spend a little bit of that time working on the next installment of the birth story, to be released this evening after I return to the internet. For my Lenten discipline, cheesy as it may sound to you, is to ban myself from the Internet, and as much as possible from the computer, between 8 AM and 4 PM and then again for a couple of hours after dinner. I just don't see a total ban being feasible or charitable in this day and age.
Last week sometime I posted a photo of my (clothed) postpartum belly. I was thinking about how rare it is to read birth stories that extend into postpartum and then I realized that the belly photos rarely do either. Time has made a difference. Here's that photo reposted, and then a more recent one.
You see? Definitely a change over the course of a week or so, and incidentally, there wasn't any meaningful weight loss between these two photos.
Pregnancy is crazy weird.
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