Here it comes, my first real full day alone with five kids. I didn't realize it until Brian said something this evening, after the older kids went to bed. Friday Mom was still here half the day. So tomorrow will be my first day of the real deal. I don't think it's going to be a problem. I'm feeling so great, even the tenderness I was still getting in the nether regions is almost gone. I'm just going to take things one at a time, and see how far I get. I'm not going to restrict myself, since I don't think I have any physical limitations, but I'm not going to be unrealistic and expect to get everything done. Good grief, I wasn't getting everything done before I had a baby, I'm certainly not going to with a nursling to tend!

I'm interested, though, in how it does turn out. What was it, last Wednesday or Thursday (I don't remember which), I got all of my routines done. I got up, got lit, showered, got breakfast...I got my whole morning routine done before 11:30. Pre-baby, it was taking me until 12:30 (or later!) to get it all done. Last week, it was just no big deal, zip zip, the way it should be. I can't believe how disabled I was by all that pain. It came on so gradually that I didn't notice, I guess. Now, just two weeks out, I feel like a whole new woman. It feels almost like a dream, it's so absolutely mind-boggling to go so fast from being so disabled to being normal again. I just can hardly believe it.

At any rate, I can't wait to see how things go this week. I wish Beth hadn't had to leave town like that, now I don't have anybody to talk to. Unless I call Jill...