ready or not...

i am ready. i am so ready to be not pregnant anymore...not so sure if i'm ready to take care of a newborn through all hours of the night and spend the whole next day chasing around a two-year-old...but definitely ready to be normal again. i mean, as normal as one can be postpartum...which really isn't that normal when you think about it. but at least i will be able to lie on my back again. at least i will be able to cuddle my husband without this huge bump in between us. at least i will be able to breathe again. of course, i'm trading all that fun stuff in for leaking milk and having a person latched onto me for at least a year and never sleeping again, but who cares about sleep and independence and dry shirts anyways? that stuff is way overrated. these early years are supposedly easier than the teenage years, too, right? the best part about all of it - pregnancy, birth, and postpartum - is that i will have two amazingly beautiful little girls to snuggle and love and watch grow into amazingly beautiful women.