I am officially on maternity leave from work! It’s a crazy feeling, kinda like finishing your last ever final in college, you still yet aren’t graduated but you know that gradation is right around the corner. You are filled with so many mixed emotions as you walk out of your last classroom with the knowledge of a major life shift is right around the corner. The books have been read, knowledge has been poured into scantrons and blue books, caps and gowns have been purchased.
The end of a pregnancy is a lot like that. You are standing at this great edge of life looking down knowing that the jump is ahead. And the questions of will there be a safe landing and where exactly will I land keeps repeating itself over and over. There are so many emotions and they seem to be felt in rapid fire progression and they are all counter opposites of each other. Your hormones that quelled for a bit are rearing their ugly heads again. You wake up some mornings questioning your sanity. But then you realize; A. you are sane because you are questioning your sanity and B. this is the nature of being pregnant.
So in the next two (or so) weeks I plan on taking it easy. Enjoying what time I have left of being pregnant, go to yoga, do aquasize with the older ladies, nest in my home, write in my blog as much as possible, and prepare for that tremendous leap of faith off the ledge from singlehood to motherhood.
