What am I doing?

I went to Babies R Us with my mom today to register for baby items.  I've been excited so far about being pregnant, bringing a new life into the world, being a mom but today reality set in.  I have no idea what I have signed up for.  I'm not even sure I know what I registered for.  You would think that after all the years of studying child development in college I would feel a little more confident than the average expectant mother but that is just not the case.  Why does this mom thing seem so overwhelming...probably because it is.  Keep me in your prayers because I will need all the help I can get.

Lett-Uce help you with that

Ok, we all know when we are hungry and use the word "starvation" that we are not in any real danger of starving to death but feel the use of the word helps get our point across of how hungry we really are. To keep from this happening too often I plan my meals everyday to be eaten on the hour, every 3 hours.  I've been doing this for years and it works for me.  I usually eat breakfast at 7am, snack at 9:30am, lunch at 12:30pm, afternoon snack at 3:30pm and dinner at 6pm.  I keep this schedule everyday.

It so happens I made a doctors appointment this morning for 11:30am.  I work downtown and my doctors office is about a good 30 minute drive with no traffic so I had to leave my office at 10:50am to be there on time.  I figured I would get to the doctor at 11:30am, have my 15-20 minute appointment and head back to work to be there by 12:30pm.  I get to the office 10 minutes early and check in and have a seat in the waiting room.  And I waited and waited and waited.  At 12:45pm someone finally called me back to see the doctor.   At this point I'm not only mad for having to wait but it's past my lunch time and I'm getting very grumpy.  I sit in the exam room for another 25 minutes before the doctor comes in.  My doctor is very sweet and very pregnant so I feel like I can't lash out at her for making me wait.  I turn on my happy face and make it through the appointment. 

I walk out of the office at 1:30 and am now ravenous.  I'm not sure if I can even drive my car back to the office.  I'm almost in tears because I'm so hungry.  I see a Sonic drive thru and said bite me to my spaghetti leftovers waiting for me at the office and drove up.  I ordered the biggest hamburger on the menu with tator tots and a cranberry limeade.  After one bite of my delicious hamburger I immediately started to feel better.  I scarfed down the hamburger all the way down the highway, licking my fingers as I pulled into the office parking lot.  I walk in and notice people in the lobby looking at me funny.  I think nothing of it and proceed onto the elevator.  I walk onto my floor and notice more strange looks from men in the office.  After downing a large limeade in the car I had to relieve myself and went straight to the bathroom.  As I'm washing my hands I glance up for a second and look down to turn off the water and paused.  I looked back up and noticed right between my ever enlarging breasts that I had safely secured a wade of lettuce.  I'm not talking a small leaf but a small handful of lettuce.  How I didn't feel it I have no idea.  I guess I had food on the mind that I just ignored all other senses.  I'm embarrassed that I walked around with lettuce popping out of my shirt and irritated that no one said anything.  Someone easily could have said, "Lett-us get that for you." 

Note to self: No more doctors appointments around feeding times.