Counting Sheep

Pregnancy + flu symptoms = NO SLEEP. So between the hours of 3am and 6am, you:

- have a revelation about what you should name your baby if baby is a girl .. and need your husband's approval that very second. It's a grumble, but I definitely think there was an "I love it!" in there. Tomorrow you can remind him how he agreed to that name... You look up what that name means and realize it's PERFECT, so then you email yourself and CC your husband a list of full names for your children.

- start planning your 2nd child's nursery because you're already finished planning the 1st child's room.

- discover there's a baby sale at Target ending tomorrow and add a bunch of items to your cart that you're not actually going to buy because in the morning your husband will remind you that a)Baby won't be here until July and surely Target will have at least 100 more sales between now and then and b) There IS a budget for the nursery and if you choose to go over, you may have to get a 2nd job which leads you to search for a part-time job because you know you'll go over budget.

- feel compelled to listen to every sad song on Youtube and cry your eyes out. No wonder your husband bans you from watching Extreme Home Makeovers (hey, I'm sure that's on right now...) and sad movies.

- may have a desire to eat everything in the kitchen. If you're choosing between tator tot casserole, fruit snacks, and the rest of your DQ blizzard - you may end up choosing all 3.

- go to Amazon and finally buy the 10 items that have been sitting in your cart for months.

- wonder if your husband will get violent if you start a load of laundry, and maybe the dishwasher, and maybe get some more stuff out of the nursery?

- click "home" on Facebook 1,000 times hoping that someone else in the world is also awake and might have posted something interesting. When you realize you're the only insomniac, you move to Pinterest where you also find out you are the only person among your pinning stalkers awake. Boring.

- search for restaurants to eat at for Valentine's Day and look at the mall directory to plot out your shopping trip.

- check the weather ... for the next 2 weeks. Then check the weather in your hometown so you can compare.

- search the Okoboji classifieds just in case there's something you just can't live without. There won't be.

- wish you wouldn't have watched all your DVR-ed shows on Thursday while your husband was working late so you had something to watch now ..

- type a blog about what you are doing between the hours of 3am and 6am because you are clearly out of things to do.

-and then you get mad because you realize you could have accomplished so many more things in those hours you were wide awake that you won't be able to accomplish later in the day because you'll be napping.

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