I’m trying to ignore the mess in my house.
Last week, if you recall, I spent the weekend cleaning, cleaning to the point of crying because my body hurt so bad but I just couldn’t stop. Well, this weekend was the opposite because my body is done. I am exhausted and in pain and my uterus is always tight and I’m just done, it’s just time for me to sit. or lay down.
ALL DAY LONG.
And now, my house? It is suffering.
So, when I get up (to pee or for food) and I see the state of my end table in my living room? I become so frustrated.
(showing you this photo PAINS me, but if I can show you a picture of me in my underwear, well, I can show you anything.)
(and make no mistake…this is not the only mess. Oh, it so is not.)
So, where there is only one week left of this awesome pregnancy, one week left until we meet, hold, love, kiss, smell, snuggle and feed this tiny little blessing, well, it will be a week of me trying not to lose my mind with all of the things that “need” to be done, all of the things that I’m just too tired to tackle. (oh and my kids are on spring break which makes the whole trying to clean the house and keep it clean? IMPOSSIBLE.)
I’m trying to focus on other things.
Like, how I only have a week to eat as many buffalo chicken sandwiches, as possible.
How I only have a week to have mornings where I can eat breakfast … three times.
How I could, potentially, ask Brian to bring me my favorite Coldstone concoction, but never, ever do.
or how I seriously think I could live off of cookies dunked in milk and some good ol’ sausage for the next week.
Man. I love food.
But the food can only distracts me for so long.
The mess wins.
damnit.
I think you should ask for the concoction from Coldstone today
Take a deep breath!
Awww… Hang In there! Perhaps I can express ship some Coldstone Icecream and Some Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches from Calgary to you. If I make it to the post office by ten, they should arrive by….
Shane
http://www.calgarydaddy.com
I feel this way all the time, but am not pregnant! The clutter and mess and toys drive me insane. I know you will hear this a zillion times, but allow me to say it just once: Cut yourself some much needed slack!
Here is what I do, maybe it will help you too! I get a laundry basket and set it in the floor, I ask my 3 and 4 year olds to fill it with their toys that have populated my living room. Then I scoot it to the end of the hall and ask them to put their things away. Or, I will throw all of the things into it myself and take it to their rooms and they can put things away.
I have also given each one a bag and instructed them to pick up all their things and take it and dump it into their toy boxes. This is how we clean up each evening. I have somehow trained myself to overlook the mess until it’s time for daddy to get home.
Hope this helps out a little 
The mess will go away in time, you do have one of the best husbands! Just think, in a week you will be so enthralled with the Little Man that you won’t (might not) notice the mess!
Maybe…hopefully…okay I would just throw a blanket on it and call it done…lol
GAH! Shane, you are such a tease!
And also? YES, PLEASE.
I vote for the Coldstone concoction today AND making Dad do a little cleaning.
=)
He is busy making all the meals, doing the grocery shopping, doing all of the laundry and working full time.
(HE.IS.AWESOME.)
But I agree with you on the concoction. mmmm….
Oh my goodness! I just posted about yesterday, and then headed over to read blogs. Yours was at the top, and…oh my goodness. Other than I’m not pregnant so don’t have those symptoms, well–the frustration about my house right now is driving me WILD. And it’s the subject of what I just posted. Kind of. Not as eloquently as you, however. And I wasn’t brave enough to post a picture–although I seriously thought about it.
Let’s get together. I’ll bring the Coldstone, and we can vent vent vent.
Feel your pain, I’m 27 weeks and on bed rest for the next 6 weeks and trying to to loose my mind over what is not being done!!!!
But on the bright side baby will be here soon!
i understand this. i wish i could make it go away for you.
i COULD bring you coldstone today. i’m leaving in 15.
seriously. you say the word.
I just want to point out a few flaws. First of all, yes, this is the last week that you will be growing a life. However, you have many weeks of nourishing and feeding a life ahead of you, thus it is NOT the last week that you can eat three breakfasts or demand Coldstone, so while you should enjoy your last week of pregnancy eating, don’t despair. You have many weeks of full fat eating ahead of you. After all, you want to make sure that Maxwell Hammer is growing and thriving, don’t you? And what better way to make sure that you have high fat breastmilk than to ask Brian to bring you your most favorite Coldstone concoction AT LEAST once a week? Say it with me: “But Brian, I NEED this ice cream so that I can continue to feed YOUR SON.”
I know. You can send me a Coldstone gift card as a thank you for being such a genius. Oh, and speaking of geniuses, remember, you are one and that’s why your house is messy. Now, go take a nap or whatever it is geniuses do.
I saw let it all go and eat what you please!
I was due yesterday….I am done, the laundry can sit in the dryer, the dishes in the sink, the kids can wear dirty clothes and eat toast and bananas all day and I will eat from my Ben and Jerrys pint and scowl at anyone who looks at me wrong 
And in the mean time I will walk the neighborhood and beg this baby to join us.
Enjoy your last week of pregnancy!! Not the pain and discomfort, but the doing nothing and pulling the pregnancy card, go for the coldstone!
ok, really you DO deserve a break! and you have to take it now! messy house or not! i would love to come clean it all for you just so you can enjoy this last week of pregnancy as much as you can. rub your belly, laugh till you pee and remember your boobs for what they once looked like.
oh, and as far as a treat, YOU MUST TRY THIS! ben and jerry’s boston cream pie. i promise you will thank me!!
Enjoy your last week of being pregnant…have fun eating all of your favorite foods this last week.
Thanks again for hosting the canvas giveaway…you ROCK!
I know this must clean feeling. I also know this physial misery feeling. They should not be allowed to co-exist in the same place.
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Funny thing is that they also live in those last intimate moments between you and Mr. Hammer. I hope you can enjoy them just a little.
I also hope the clean fairy shows up. (round here I call her MOM, she rocks.
Oh I SO remember that stage of pregnancy. And then my house did not get cleaned up for two months.
I vote you get some Coldstone, maybe it will freeze your brain into not seeing the mess?
Last night laying in bed I told my husband that my only conditon of the next pregnancy (if there is one) that we MUST hire someone to do the cleaning for at least 2 weeks after the baby is born. But now I may extend that into the week or two before the baby is born!
I so hear you on this one. It so hard to let it go and then when you let it go to focus on the important stuff, the fact that you let it go comes right back at you.
While the baby is still clinging to you 24/7 for nourishment at all times of day and night, you still get to eat what ever you want. That’s my story and I’ve stuck to it 3 times so far.
I feel THE SAME WAY. Exactly.
Only I’m 32 weeks pregnant.
My body is too big and I’m too uncomfortable to do any work. But it’s extremely difficult to sit on the couch all day and watch the mess accumulate.
Recommendations? Have you ever hired a cleaning service? My husband is willing to help. But he’s SO busy with work, and he’s traveling a lot these days. I’m trying to brainstorm a solution to get me through between now and May.
Get thee some Coldstone TODAY. If I didn’t live so freaking far away I would come clean your house. That would make my husband jealous because I suck at keeping my own house clean. But it is always easier to do it for someone else. I digress…give yourself a break lady. You are eleventyhundred weeks pregnant and everything hurts at this point. I think the fact that you get up to get food and go to the bathroom is something
Put Noah and Anna to work this week too 
xoxoxo
My third daughter gave me the nesting bug and It. Never. Left.
Not that we lived in a dump beforehand but I was a little less worried. And now… our house looks like a dump a good part of the week and it drives me insane.
Then I realise I have three beautiful, happy, messy, spirited little girls who (as much as I try to tell them not to) bring out a new game every three seconds and/or follow me around as I’m cleaning and remove the things I’m putting away because they have decided they actually did want to play with those.
I’ll clean another day when chores and pocket money are better understood.
Enjoy!!! AND embrace the mess so you can enjoy those newborn days and let it all go!!! Can’t wait to hear the news!
I love your messy end table…it’s a sign that life is in your home. Some day when you are old and grey, you will miss those messes, but then you will have grandkids to make those messes and they won’t seem so messy. Did I confuse you?
If this is a mess, I’m *never* letting you see my house. LOL! Hugs. Hang in there.
I gave up on tidy years ago ~ at home all day with seven it just ain’t happnin! I’ll settle for clean and even that only just!
One day, when my froglets are all hopped off I think I might even miss the mess ~ just now it does my head in!!
Just so you know, there are many surfaces in my house that look very similar to that right now…well I mean we don’t have bags of hair stuff, but we do have cars, trucks, and blocks all over the place.
So excited for little mans arrival!
oh sweetie…i get the same way whenever things get out of order. but, you really do have a great reason why things seem hectic and out of order. and next week…you will have a more wonderful reason. just enjoy your time with the kids while they are home.
dude, I thought that was my end table for a second.
No worries, YOU’RE ABOUT TO HAVE THAT SWEET BABY BOY!! WAHOO!
Pregnancy is so hard! Hang in there! You’re doing AMAZING.
aww… forget the house! it’s just STUFF. enjoy this week… really live it. i know you’re probably over it, but so was i and now? now i would love to feel the kick of a baby, or the ache in my hips knowing why they felt like that. ((H))
I must of been a pregnant women in a past life because clutter stresses me out.
The wife must have me successfully brainwashed, I find myself in a constant state of tidying. Every time I get up I end up bringing sometime to the kitchen or garbage.
And the great countdown begins!!!! I think that I might be almost as excited about your little boy as I am about the impending arrival of my little girl! And don’t sweat your house. What gets done will get done and what doesn’t won’t and that’ll be okay.
How exciting!!! Forget the damn mess and enjoy these last few days! xoxo
I remember just before my due date I was so worried about my house being a mess because of the drop-in people who would be over after I got back from the hospital. In the end, it didn’t matter though. The rest of the family made a mess again while I was in there. I know it is easier said than done, but don’t worry about it and just try to ignore it. Think about the ice cream! You still have an excuse.
The mess will take care of itself, somehow…or make a game of it and put the little ones to work to help clean some of it up for you…all of the things that NEED to be done will either get done, or they won’t, but you just need to take care of yourself right now!