Don’t you just love Sundays?! Going to Church and feeling uplifted, not having to work, taking a nap that can last for hours, waking up and having food on the table ready for you to devour.
. .Well, for Chris at least.
Because someone has to do the cooking. Those days of awaking to a home cooked meal are over for me, unless I’m home for the weekend.
Point is that Sundays are so peaceful and relaxing and I love it. Not to mention that when living in Southern California, nine times out of ten it’s gorgeous outside! You can’t help but want to take a stroll and enjoy the beauty.
Today Chris and I decided to do just that; Although it was already after sunset and it wasn’t just a stroll. We had a mission. To get to Ralphs in order to return our RedBox DVD we rented the night before.
I thought he was crazy! For one, I’m 8 months pregnant, going on 9! And secondly, Ralphs seemed at least 2 miles away from our apartment!
Before I agreed, I had him GPS it just to clarify the distance (and hopefully it would be just long enough for him to recognize that I couldn’t make it there and back). We agreed that if it were any more than a mile and a half then I couldn’t do it.
Unfortunately it told us it was 0.7 miles away. Which equals 1.4 miles round trip. Darn it!
So off we went.
It was pretty chilly out and brought back memories for both of us, of walking home from BYU-Idaho campus after late night study sessions in the Library (granted it wasn't even close to that cold). It’s crazy to think we both went there and experienced the same things, just not together. Funny how that happens. One of my favorite things to do is compare the parallels of our lives before we knew one another. Crazy how many there actually are! Anyway... back to our "stroll"..
We finally got to Ralphs, returned the DVD and took a good 3 minute break. It had taken us 25 minutes to get there and by that time my body was doing fine but my head was starting to ache. Weird.
The kicker on the way home was that it was 100% up hill! I immediately started to feel the extra weight I’ve gained and the stress on my knees.
Chris handled it like a champ and used some of the techniques we’ve been learning in our natural childbirth classes to help keep me focused of my breathing and concentrating on each individual step I took. It totally helped! It was awesome, especially because my abdomen started tightening and causing bouts of pain just minutes before we had reached home and with his guidance and continual reassurance I was able to get through it and not hate him for having the idea that this was ever a good idea! Instead, I was proud of myself for being able to complete such a task at 35 weeks pregnant. Hooray!!!
Plus, we took 27 minutes to get home. Which means we were only 2 minutes slower on the uphill walk home.
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