Actually, I don't want to insult belugas. They are a beautiful animal. I just, I just, I'm so much less functional (nevermind exemplary) when I'm pregnant. I'm not qualified to advise anyone on anything other than possibly just hanging in there when you feel like crap. Consider the facts.
Not Pregnant
- Run several miles on most days
- Thoughtful Prayer and meditation each morning and night
- Enthusiastically pursue many fun hobbies/interests
- Can't wait to go preach the gospel every Tuesday
- Keep a house of relative order
- Eat a diet nearly free from white flour, sugar, and red meat
Pregnant
- Lumber around the house only as needed, and get breathless in the process
- Pray in bed (for SHAME!) and often fall asleep before I get to "amen"
- Enthusiastically pursue cookie dough when it is available
- Can't wait until my kids go to bed so I can lay around an do nothing for the rest of the evening
- Get by with "the minimum" including fishing clean but rumpled clothes out of laundry baskets every day
- Eat either "whatever will stay down" or "whatever is most fattening," depending on the stage of pregnancy
So anyway, if you have any ideas on how to be an amazing and spiritually prepared mother, please leave them in the comments. I'll be happy to pretend I thought of them and send them on to Lindsay.
9 comments:
All I can say is that you can't be a supermom without the pregnancy part, the two go hand in hand. (drat!) I know you're a supermom when you're not pregnant and I'm willing to bet you're doing better than you think now that you are. If nothing else, I think it's super that you keep getting up when you feel like doo-doo and do-do your job. (That's a funny play on words there, not a commentary on the job done!) It takes a supermom because there are no sick days or second strings as a mom!
Oh EeeeWibidus. Is ooo so empwegnated?
Btw your blog is gorgeous. Maybe you should come show us how to make it look awesome with a picture and all. Ours is just, so....white.
Hahaha! With Grant's comment, that is just too funny - especially since we were just laughing about that on Monday. :) Super spiritual mom. Hmmm. I'm not really on that list at present. Find a mom with no teenagers, no kids in diapers, and not pregnant or in menopause, and they're probably a great example because life is in that more fun, learning, nurturing stage. That's what it seems like, at least. But you know what they say about the grass being greener...
Being a supermom has nothing to do with laundry in a basket. It has everything to do with getting pregnant when you know the pregnant state is challenging for you. It is still loving your darling children when they have kept you up night after night. It is about keeping a sense of balance between the things we know are temporary and those things that are eternal. This stage passes. Children are forever.
Wait- you're describing me- maybe I AM pregnant? j/k! love the funny post!
Lybi, I hear ya. :) I am feeling your pain, just a little later stage. lol!
Spiritual Mom? Motherhood is one of the most sacred duties on this earth. So the fact that you are a mom and you are actually being a mom and not just a woman with kids qualifies you as a spiritual mom in my opinion. That's what I tell myself anyway ;) Or in other words, what your mom said :)
And Grant, it's called a layout. Do a google search. Or stop being lazy and code one yourself :P just kidding
LOL!!! That last part—I'm on to you, but I'm not letting you off the hook!
I haven't cleaned my house all week. Remember that fantastically clean laundry room I posted about?! Well, it is currently flooded with water because I tried to do all of the weeks laundry TODAY, and the ground outside was too cold to absorb the water, and back into my laundry room it came! It flooded all the neglected dust bunnies into the middle of the room. What did I do? Threw down towels and walked away to eat coffee cake.
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