Posted on October 27, 2008
Okay, for starters I’m normally a rather unemotional person. Wait…let me re-word that I’m actually very emotional, as in the emotion of ANGER…it flares up pretty often when I hear about anything about children being hurt, anything that is of a political nature that is the opposite of my personal opinions (and yes…my opinions are 100% correct, no one better try and sway me! LOL!), anything that involves someone slamming my Jesus, anyone that cuts down my family (I’m VERY Godfather-ish in my intense love for my family, if anyone slams them or ever does them wrong I will hate them forever!). At any of these instances I will feel my heart begin to race, my nose automatically flares and I get so overcome with emotion my voice will shake and I’ve been told I look SCARY!!!!! Hee-hee. So I suppose a better way of explaining my regular emotional state is – quick to anger, slow to crying. But lately I find tears coming pretty easily, over really odd things. Here are some examples of things I got teary about recently:
1) We went to Trier this weekend and walked around FOREVER…had a wonderful, amazing time as a family and as we were driving back home I was just overcome with love for my little growing family. I was also overcome with pain in my legs & lower back and I realized my 3rd trimester self just really can’t walk forever on uneven cobblestone streets for hours at a time and I wondered to myself how many minutes of this pregnancy my legs & back have hurt (they hurt OFTEN!) and then I had the thought, “Every minute of leg pain, back pain, indigestion, labor pain, recovery pain will be worth it just seeing our new baby girls face for the first moment” and on come the tears. This overwhelming love for this little precious girl who I haven’t even seen yet, but gosh she’s totally adored already!
2) After the Trier trip we came home and got Kate in bed and David could see how much I was hurting from being on my feet all day and I’d joked around saying I needed a back and foot rub…not only did he listen he DID IT! Rubbed my fat pregnant back and my ugly un-painted toenailed feet. Him being so sweet caused more tears. Happy ones though!
3) We went to the base movie theatre to see Beverly Hills Chihuahua (we went for Kate…seriously not something David and I would have chosen!). And at base movie theatre’s they play the national anthem at the beginning of the movie, so we stood up and put our hands over our hearts and I see Kate’s little hand over her heart and couple that sweet moment with the sound of the anthem and on came more tears.
4) One of the previews was for some movie about a little girl who’s father isn’t in her life, but her uncle discovers she has an arm for football. I can’t remember the name of the movie, but seeing the sweet relationship between her and her uncle made me yet again tear up.
These are just examples from THIS WEEKEND alone. This isn’t taking into account all the other random times tears come on cause David or Kate says something sweet to me, when I see photos of newborn precious babies, when I talk to my sweet Mama and she makes me feel special, etc., etc., etc. In a way I almost like being this emotional, it makes me truly cherish EVERYTHING and not take any special moments for granted, but then it also just makes me look like a emotional goofball…but oh well. I *think* when you have a pregnant belly even strangers are a little more understanding. And just so everyone is aware, my true description of teary is just when my eyes get a little wet, I don’t have like full on tears streaming down my face, a big swollen red clown nose and a ugly distorted mouth. So I’m not completely shaming my reputation!
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I know how you feel. A couple days ago Bear was being bad and not listening and needed to be punished. I was so frustrated and at the same time felt so bad looking over at her cute puppy dog eyes I just couldn’t hold it together. I also got emotional (ie watery eyes and sniffles) in church yesterday when the pastor was describing how he felt when his baby girl was born last week, it was sooo sweet, he even teared up! Isn’t it crazy how pregnancy makes you feel everything so much more, deep down in your heart!
It doesn’t get better when you HAVE the baby! I used to be steel, now I’m mush…MUSH! The kid hugs me and I melt.