"When are you due?"
At this point, I reply, "November." I conveniently leave out that my due date is technically Novemeber 28, the very very end of the month.
At this point, I usually see their eyes bulge and their brains ticking as they think through, "Hmmm, it's July. That makes her 5 months along. Whoa!"
Ha! Fooled you all. I'm not even technically five months yet, though tomorrow I will be.
It's at this point that I need to make the decision if I want to tell them that there is a reason I look so gargantuan given my due date-- twins-- and then sit through the subsequent "Oh, GOOD LUCK!!!!" or "Oh, I never would have wanted twins. How do you feel about it?" or get lucky and have the occasional excited response.
OR, do I just leave them puzzled, thinking, "Oh that poor huge girl?"
Depending on how I'm feeling that day, I do either one or the other. It's a fun little game.
Me at four-and-a-little-more-than-a-half months.
Along with my rapidly expanding middle, I've turned into a crazed nester, trying to stock up on every little thing so that I will never have to go to the store again after these babies are born.
Case en point, look at the amazing number of glass canisters I bought at Goodwill this week. We get a lot of things from bulk bins and I like to put them in something so that I don't have a mess of plastic bags of food, so it's not entirely unreasonable, but maybe a bit hoarder-ish.
(Isn't that matching white set cute? $4 for the set!)
When we got home from our trip, the first thing I did after unpacking was to rip apart our entire apartment. THE. ENTIRE. APARTMENT. I reorganized EVERYTHING. Enough emphasis for you?
I've been stocking up on random things, too. My goal is to never have to go to the store again once these babies are born. Things like laundry detergent have made it home with me. I have a favorite kind, Charlie's Soap. It works great with cloth diapers. I feel like you can really get a feel for how good a detergent is when you wash cloth diapers, and this has been the best so far. Anyway, the only place to buy it is online. I noticed that it was much more cost effective to buy bigger. So I did. Boy did I ever. I spent $100 on laundry detergent, it was four cents cheaper per load to buy that much. Dallin saw the bill and had to do a double take. But hey, I figure that if there is ever a time in my life when I can use $100 worth of laundry detergent, it would be when I have baby twins.
Dorothy tried to lift the tub out of the box. She couldn't. Actually, I couldn't either. Well, I probably could, but that might be a bad idea at this point. We waited for Dallin to get home.
Wish me luck with my crazed nesting!
6 comments:
You don't look huge...you look adorable!!! I'm sure you'll look huge eventually...:) I love canisters...you can never have too many...you'll find plenty to do with them. I got that same white canister set from DI for a killer deal, too (maybe we're the only ones that like them b/c everyone is getting rid of them!) and love them! Good luck with your nesting!!
Happy nesting to you! I love the canisters--esp the coffee and tea ones. Great pic of you--you don't look overly prego to me, but what do I know? Congrats on the laundry soap. Big purchases can be fun in a crazy kind of way.
You're not even that big for having 2 in there. And you're all belly anyway=super cute! I still can't believe you are having twins though when it doesn't even run in the family. So many people around us are having twins, it's crazy. 6 couples in our ward to be exact in the last 2 years! You look so cute pregnant, and having the 2nd one in there just adds to the glow. : )
You look so great! Who cares what other people say! You look wonderful. And sounds like a fun, busy project ahead of you. Good luck! =)
You look great Janelle! And I've heard Charlie's soap is really good stuff. Good luck nesting! I'm doing the SAME thing!! :)
I think instead of telling people you're having twins you should tell them its a goiter or something. People (myself included) probably wouldn't have a lot of followup questions because we don't know what a goiter is and we don't want to find out if its contagious.
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