Growth Spurt?

I've been feeling really run down this week. I've been tired a lot and getting light headed with any increase in activity. I didn't do my workout today because showering made me light headed. I figured squats and pushups and the like probably wouldn't help anything. I'm not sure if I'm fighting something off or if we're in the middle of a growth spurt or both. I'm inclined to think both. My ligaments have been hurting lately and my abdominal muscles have been a bit sore. Also, it seems like my belly got bigger between Tuesday and Wednesday. I haven't been measuring it or anything, so I have no definitive proof, but when I looked in the mirror after I got dressed on Wednesday I thought, "Man, my belly looks bigger today." Plus, my sinuses have been a bit unhappy and my head's been feeling weird, so I think I might be fighting something off as well. I've also been neglecting taking my vitamins lately. No real reason why, just forgetting. But, pregnancy suppresses the immune system and so does forgetting to take vitamins, so germy invaders have more room to horn in. I've been better about taking the vitamins since I started not feeling well. I just hope it's not too little, too late. I napped today for the first time in a while. So, lots of rest, lots of fluid, hopefully I'll start feeling better soon. And by soon I mean tomorrow. I have a gig on Saturday, so I need to not feel like crap and get dizzy after playing for five minutes.

Saturday Night

I'm feeling restless and I want to do something, but I don't know what. I was going to write some posts for this week for the SMFarms blog, but I'm a bit stymied there at the moment. I also need to write a reference letter for one of my violin students by Tuesday. So, I started on that and I have one sentence. And I'm stuck. Even now, I have only a few sentences and can think of nothing interesting to write. This is potentially the most boring blog post in the history of blogging.

So, we'll recap today's activities. I know you're all fascinated by the mundane details of my life, so here you go. I actually got more than six hours of sleep last night. That's the first time in several days, so that was nice. I went to bed a little after midnight and slept until 10:00 am. We had our appointment to go over our taxes this afternoon, which took about an hour and a half. After that we went grocery shopping and ran a couple other errands in town. Then we came home and Michael fed the goats and put them in for the night while I made dinner. I made some more moisturizer and shampoo and we played with labels. If I know you in person you might get conscripted to try some of my soaps and lotions in the near future. I'm experimenting with different things and I will need other people's opinions. We're considering having a booth at the Rathdrum Farmer's Market this summer, and, since our farm will not be producing enough to sell yet, it'll be my craft products. But, I need testers to tell me if they like things. Also, any input on scents would be nice, specifically scents that can be created with essential oils. I'm trying to make things that are non-toxic and fragrance oils are synthetic and synthetic fragrances tend to have known and unknown chemicals that are or could be toxic. I feel better about scenting a product with essential oils rather than fragrance oils. So, feel free to leave me a comment with your favorite scents and I'll see what I can do.

21 Weeks

As of today I am at 21 weeks.  The baby's moving more.  It still feels weird to me, especially when it's moving against the inside.  I prefer the outward movements much more.  Michael hasn't felt it yet.  Mostly from bad timing.  Every time the baby moves where it can be felt from the outside, he's asleep or somewhere else.  Everything else is going fine, though.  I'm starting to research childbirth classes and whatnot.  The available ones around here seem to be Bradley, Hypnobirthing, and Hypnobabies.  They all seem interesting, I'm just not sure which one will be best for me.  I think I'm going to see if I can get the books from the library that go with each one and read through them to see which one resonates the most.  I've read good things about all of them, so it seems like whichever seems like it fits best with the way my brain works would be the one to do. 

I haven't been good about the belly picture/pregnancy documenting things.  When I found out I was pregnant I intended to keep a journal and everything, but that totally didn't happen.  So, I don't remember the date that I first felt the baby move or anything.  I think it was around 16 weeks, but I'm not completely sure.  I'm not really sure what else I would write about in a pregnancy update thing.  Most of my pregnancy has been quite uneventful.  I've been tired for most of it, but that's gotten a lot better lately.  I'm still a bit more tired than normal, but I'm also growing a person, so I think that's to be expected.  It's not the bone deep exhaustion that it was for so long. 


In other news, I've started regular updates on our farm blog.  You can check it out at smfarms.wordpress.com.   That's where I'll be writing about all the happenings on the farm.  It'll probably be updated more than here because this is where I post all my random ramblings and personal things.  There may be some overlapping content, but the thrust of both blogs are fairly different.  If you'd like regular updates from that one you can become a follower, or you can like the Sláinte Mhaith Farms page on Facebook, where I'll post when a new blog post comes out.