Lazy day

So I have a mother's helper here today (twice a week she comes for two hours after school), and here I sit at the computer, doing nothing to take advantage of the time I've got to clean up this house.

The bulk of *my* tasks of getting the house ready to show are done; mostly I've just got little things I could do, like clean out cabinets, and I just don't feel motivated today. And it's the last week of school!

I think I am going to have her come one whole morning a week this summer...that's when I have the most energy to get stuff done anyway (pregnancy or no). And my mornings will no longer be interrupted at 10:30 when I either pick Audrey up or stop to greet her and find out about her day when Leo brings her home.

My pregnancy is gradually being "outed", mostly by myself, mostly inadvertently, but not entirely unwillingly. My mother's helper figured it out when she saw the Mother's Day card from Audrey that I'd unwittingly left on display in the dining room. It was signed "from Audrey, Aislinn, and BABY".

Las week one of my friends that I've told was over with her older daughter; we were discussing how this house was really too small now, and I misunderstood and thought she meant "now, as in because the baby is coming," and asked if O (her daughter) knew. She said "no", and I said, "oops...well I guess she does now, since I said that!" And O probably would have remained clueless if I had not made a big deal out of it.

I had to tell my chiropractor; as one of my doctors, he should know. But it's more complicated, because he is a friend who used to go to our church. His wife J and her niece R (who also used to attend our church with her parents, who are also friends of ours) both work in his office, and while I told J, I did not tell R, and J is dying to tell her. I told her definitely by my next appointment it would be fine.

Who else? Oh yeah...the lady at the desk at Curves where I work out. She finally noticed I was only doing the circuit twice, and teased me on my way out yesterday, "So, did you do your extra round?" I figured the jig was up, and told her. I'd been afraid they'd tell me I had to stop, or I needed a doctor's note (and hello...I don't have an actual OB who's seeing me, just one who writes me prescriptions for progesterone over the phone), but it turns out it's not a problem unless my doctor (I will apply that as "midwife") thinks it's a problem.

I think I will start making it public this weekend, at our church's Memorial Day Picnic. And then, to my extended family (not counting my parents, whom I told on Mother's Day), at an upcoming wedding. I'll be about as far along as I was with Aislinn when I made *that* announcement, but I pretty much had to then...at 7 1/2 weeks, I already had to break out the maternity clothes. I've got a few larger sizes now (from when I had not lost all my weight from Aislinn), so I may be able to put off the A-line shirts and elastic waistbands for a few more weeks. But I still want to tell people. So I will. I am pretty sure that if this one was not going to stick around (at least, for the reasons the others didn't), I would know by now. I kept losing them earlier and earlier, until the last one, when I started miscarrying just a couple of hours after seeing the positive home pregnancy test. My body has apparently turned a corner, did so with Aislinn, and I'm feeling happy and optimistic and tired of not being able to talk about it.