GROWING PAINS

yesterday was valentine's day. a day of love, togetherness, and passion. or in my case, a really l o n g day. the problem begins that i woke up to go to the bathroom at about 1:30am. i hopped back in bed (well, i'm not really hopping these days) but, i get back into bed, get my "snoogle" all comfie... and I lie there for the next hour. finally, at 2:30 i decided to turn on the t.v. hoping that it would send me back into slumber. i am usually confined to "boy meets world" and "sister, sister" when i'm up at this hour, but it just so happened that there was a "growing pains" marathon on nick at night. a pleasant surprise! unfortunately, i had to watch 2 episodes before falling back asleep. so, two hours later- i'm snoozing again. it seemed like minutes later the alarm went off, and i was blessed with one of those horrific calf cramps. i also fell up the steps, and nearly died trying to put on my boots. you see, when you're 32 weeks pregnant it isn't the easiest thing to lean over and put your shoes on, particularly when they are tight anyway. fortunately, the day got much better! despite the fact that the kids were held hostage inside by the FREEZING temperatures, we had a fun valentine's day party at school. eric and i had decided to treat ourselves to macaroni grill, and fortunately arrived at 4:58 because it was already a 25 minute wait. somehow, we managed to get seated in less than 10. not quite sure how that happened since there were a room full of couples that arrived before us. maybe they saw my enormous belly and thought that we were more desperate to get food. hey, just go with it! since we're so broke, eric and i agreed that we would just do cards this year. we cleaned the house for bunko, and then watched a movie. well, he watched it... and i dozed off. so all in all, it turned out to be a pretty good day!