How to piss off a pregnant lady in 1 simple step! Tell her how fast her pregnancy has gone! I have heard or read those words so frequently over the last week from colleagues, friends, and a few people on social media. They are so right. The part that's gone really fast has been the part where we have been on lockdown and my face-to-face social interaction and "outings outside the house" decreased by like 70-80%. Or perhaps the 3 months I spent on my knees in our bathroom floor dry-heaving. That was like a blink of an eye!!! Time flies when you're having fun. Or vomiting. Okay, okay ... I'm just kidding around. But seriously - don't tell a pregnant woman (during a pandemic) that time has just flown by because it probably hasn't for her. In seriousness, my pregnancy has gone fast in ways. And I've mostly enjoyed it and had it pretty easy! But when I look back at when I found out I was pregnant at just 5 weeks..that seriously feels like eons ago. An...
Ruminations of a runner and recipe-maker, who serves up ranty cynicisms from time to time.