Scary Shower Moment

Yesterday in the shower I had a bit of a freak out moment. It all started with a spider in the shower. I don't mind spiders in the shower as long as they keep to two basic rules: 1. I know where they are and 2. they are nowhere near me. The spider yesterday was up by the shower head, visible yet far away, so I was fine with it. Then, after I washed my face and got my hair wet, I looked up and the spider was gone! I looked all around, even on the curtain (which would NOT have been ok for him to be there)but didn't see him anywhere. Unfortunately, I didn't have my contacts in so I couldn't really see anything so I went as far as to turn the water off and get my glasses to do a careful search. No spider. Finally I even checked my hair just to make sure he hadn't gone there for some reason (I put that one off because I did't want to touch him if he was there). Once I was sure the spider wasn't lurking anywhere, I calmed myself and continued on with  my shower.

That night, I told Jason my shower story. He said that the spider often goes between the wall and the shower wall once he water turns on so he doesn't get wet.That was probably where he had gone. Apparently, you can see that if you are tall enough.

This morning, our spider friend was way up by the ceiling. Apparently he doesn't want to be close to me anymore than I want to be near him. And I'm ok with that. 

Resolutions

I've been thinking about New Years Resolutions lately and thought I would share my thoughts here, they seemed too long for a Facebook post. I was thinking that a big reason a lot of resolutions fail is that people look on them as an all or nothing option. Like the first time you don't do something you're trying to start or do do something you are trying to stop, it's all over and you have failed yourself for the year. This strikes me as less good. So I am thinking of it as more of a process. I figure I have the whole year to work on it and hopefully I can have the new habit firmly in place by the end of it. So for me, I'm trying to not stay up past midnight reading or watching shows. I have had a couple of slips but there have been nights when I don't even pick up my book so I'm getting better and staying positive.

Another resolution I'm working on is the dreaded weight-loss one. Now, I'm not looking for a huge weight loss, my goal is to no longer look pregnant before I get pregnant again. However, it is kind of tricky for me to know how much time I have to work with because my body is a little... unpredictable. For that reason, I've been putting off getting started. A couple of things have happened lately that have helped me make it a priority. First, I was talking to Jason about an article I read that talks about the movie Frozen and the characters' proportions. We were saying how men tend to be bigger than women (their wrists specifically) and Anna chimed in and the conversation went something like this:

A: Some things on Mommy are bigger than on Daddy.
Jason: Yep, her chest is bigger than my chest.
A: And her tummy.
Me: That's because there was a baby in there, it stretched it out.
A: But that was a long time ago Mom.
Thanks kid.

Fortunately, he's so cute I don't even mind.

Then yesterday, I was watching my friend's girls and the 5 year old said that my tummy sticks out so there is a baby in there (her mom just had a baby so it's fresh in her mind). I told her that there is no baby in there but she wasn't convinced.

Guess it's time for me to do something about this. So I came up with a plan. In school, Anna is working on counting to 100 and her teacher said she needs to practice at home. So, we are now going to have me do 100 crunches while she counts. This way, she is practicing her counting and I am moving towards not looking pregnant anymore. We'll see how this goes.