Falling

I fell twice yesterday. Ugh. I don't remember the last time I fell- like all the way to the ground. The first time was on my way to work. My foot stepped and kinda turned my heel and caused me to slip and lose my footing. I let myself fall all the way down. Call this motherly instinct but I didn't wanna try to prevent my fall because I was carrying heavy things, plus I didn't wanna fall on my stomach. Kinda like the idea in snowboarding to fall on your butt- not that I've been boarding before. But to be honest, I kinda blanked on exactly how I fell. I know my ankle turned, it hurt after, and so did my knees. I think I fell on my knees then got up on my knees. And I was wearing a skirt ugh. I didn't even tell anyone but the hubby maybe cuz I was embarrassed? Then the whole day I worried if that kinda fall could hurt the baby...let's hope not. But no weird pains or feelings in the baby area- just kinda caution cuz I've never fallen like that before.

Then when I got home, I was waiting for my two guys to get home to decide what we were doing for dinner. As I was cleaning up and trying to cook some meat we had defrosted (wasn't sure if that meat was going to be lunch for tomorrow or dinner, I fell again. Mind you our kitchen is pretty cluttered cuz we've been doing some rearranging. AND I tripped on Andrew's tiny little stool that he had in there cuz he wanted to see what I was doing at the kitchen sink one day. I just wasn't paying attention? Maybe my growing belly has made me lose some perception as well as peripheral vision? Or maybe I was just tired...either way now I'm paranoid.

So Andrew is now sick and was waking up coughing and crying every hour last night. This meant I got no more than 1 hour of continuous sleep. It freaked me out cuz I really wasn't trying to go to work half asleep the day after I fell. So I stayed home, tooke care of him, got some rest, and am trying to simplify my daily life. I think I've just been a step ahead of myself and my body isn't keeping up these days....SIGH

So tomorrow is a new day. I will take a sore ankle, sore lower back, and bruised knees as a reminder to be careful. And I will wear tennis shoes everywhere I go if I can help it :). Gotta do everything I can to keep this baby safe!