Pregnancy Hormones, They Are Raging

Let's talk about pregnancy hormones here for a minute. I am a crazy mess a lot of the time right now. I have no idea how it is even possible to go from a raging ball of stress to a blubbering baby in the matter of 2 seconds flat. But it is possible and I am mastering it.

I got tears in my eyes while watching How I Met Your Mother, really? Seriously? Have you guys watched that show? Not an emotional show but somehow I managed to cry in it this week. I also got tears in my eyes at Senior Night for a college team, for boys I have never met in my life. I also cry at adoption gotcha day videos, which is pretty normal but doubly worse right now, we are talking ugly cry people. (Insert blubbering emotional pregnancy hormone here)

I also come home from work a stressed out mess, I look at my house and feel like the walls are closing in, that every inch of it is covered in hair that I will never ever get rid of, there are muddy paw prints on the wood  floors, there is a mound of mail and junk thrown on our kitchen table, and Lydia has usually gotten into a cabinet or two while Matt is cooking dinner and I walk into it strewn across our already too small kitchen. (Insert CRAZY pregnancy hormone here)

There are moments that Lydia is an absolute angel and so much fun I cannot wait to have another just like her BUT then there are moments that the terrible two's sneak up on us and she is a defiant little independent person who is going to push every button mommy has. Those moments I feel like I'm going to drown as a mom of an infant and a toddler. (Insert panic stricken mommy hormone here)

Also, Matt told me the other night that my IQ has significantly dropped this pregnancy and I believe it! There are times I start talking and end up somewhere totally different then where the conversation originally began and have no idea how I got there. OR I start talking and just stop because I forget what I was saying. I sometimes just feel plain stupid like my brain is not working at all. (Pregnancy has taken my brain hostage)

We won't even talk about the crazy dreams…

Pregnancy hormones you are something else, something that is totally normal and anticipated for pregnant women but for some reason you are ruthless this time around.