16 weeks!

Here is the belly that causes me so much trouble...Sara is exactly right: Maternity clothes still swallow me whole and my regular clothes feel like I'm wearing a boa constrictor and have no sense of my own fat body...I feel like kids will follow me down the streets calling, "Fat fat, the water rat!"


Now would be an excellent time to acquire the "Not, Fat - PREGNANT" t-shirt I've seen places. o_O

We also had one of the pecan trees - the one that helps shade our yard but is in the neighbor's yard - decided to drop a giant branch today. I was in the kitchen making peanut butter cookies and heard what sounded like a GIANT piece of velcro being ripped open. VERY STRONG, BIG Velcro. I knew it was a branch - sadly, we hear that sound once or twice a year. I am TERRIFIED that one of those branches is going to go through our kitchen one of these days. "Luckily," this branch fell and didn't hurt our wooden fence, but all but destroyed a section of the chain link fence to the house next door...which serves as our back fence. :-( It fell where it covers our hummingbird vine, too, so that was sad. Hopefully, Ben will get the branch cut and out of the old lady next door's yard, since she's unable to handle a job of that size. Maybe he can try to straighten out the fence, too. I'm just glad that Ben had put his camper top on the truck: It was on saw horses right in the path of destruction and would've been crushed had it still been there. So I'm not too upset, but we are having Ben's birthday party in the back yard next weekend and I'd prefer to not have a twisted, broken fence to look at. Or to worry about branches falling and killing our guests. You know, nothing too much.

Well, I'd better be off to take my shower and get ready for work. I kept getting that black-out feeling this morning and I really wish I didn't have to go in today at all...I'm too scared I'll pass out. But the man I work for needs to be gone early today to take care of his youngest daughter and I don't want to leave the other lady there by herself...though I'm sure she wouldn't want me to come in if I were truly having a problem. That's just the thing: I don't know if this is a big deal or just me still adjusting to new blood pressures and weight on major arteries, etc.

*sigh*