Wednesday, April 11, 2012

As promised, "The Freak Out!"


OK, I believe that I am entitled to at least one or two good pregnancy freak out moments, so far there has only been one so Andy should count himself lucky...right? Well, let me first give a disclaimer that I have a wonderful, loving, awesomely intuitive and communicative husband who loves me no matter what! But this all started after several hard days at work. I had been bringing up lately that work was getting harder and especially this night (it was a Monday night and we were doing Family Home Evening together) coming off of a couple hard days of work I brought it up again. The way we do our FHE by the way is a song, prayer, then business, then the lesson, prayer, then a dessert. Well, feeling a little stressed I started to go though the "business" part of our FHE. Well, essentially it turned into an escalation of what Andy was or was not doing to help out around the house and everything that was left to me to get done. For example, finding an apartment to live in in DC, renting out our house, finding out how the army will move us, all the home improvements that still needed to be done to help our place be rented out, and everything and the kitchen sink was dragged in as I got more and more frantic and my voice escalated more and more. Then to top it off I brought in wanting to stop work soon, to which Andy stated, "Well, you should keep working if there is no medical reason for you to stop." That just about did it for me and I went off on all the above mentioned "to do's" that Andy was not helping me do and the icing on the cake was that the baby's dresser was not finished as promised! So once my tirade was over and I was in tears Andy very meekly and calmly said, "I get the sense that you're feeling a little overwhelmed at the moment..." I looked at him in disbelief and yelled/cried, "Yes, of course I am!" Well, we patched the night up as best we could and it was off to work again for me for the next couple days. Then as I pulled in after work I noticed that the dresser was completely done! Apparently Andy had stayed up all night to get it done for me despite being busy in his rotations as this was the only thing he felt he could do for me to make me feel better. I felt like a bit of a heel and apologized about my "freak out" moment and we were back to marital bliss!

2 comments:

  1. I hope Andy appreciates that you only had one freak out moment this whole pregnancy!!! And even not pregnant I would have freaked out over all the stressful changes you have coming up. You are amazing Becca!

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  2. At least it happened at FHE. I mean, that's what FHE is for, right?

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