Manic Monday

So, I was actually having a really hard time coming up with a story for Manic Monday. This bothered me for so many reasons. The first and most important reason is because I am crazy and know full well the extent of my own craziness. I don’t try to hide it – I embrace it. That being said, there should always be a crazy story – shouldn’t there?

Flashback to yesterday. I was telling Dad a story and he was the first person to really appreciate the extent of my stupidity. I thought y’all might appreciate it - so here goes:

I get this weird pain right around my belly button. It’s very hard to describe. It’s on the inside, it is somewhat sharp and if the baby plays for too long in that area, it can become very, very tender. This spot has been getting progressively more painful as the days pass and there is less room to play in Mommy's belly.

Crazy moment: I had myself convinced it was the baby pulling on its umbilical cord. ‘Cause you know, the baby’s umbilical cord is attached to my belly button. So every time I would get the pain, I would say: “Baby, stop yanking on that cord!”

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I only hope that I have given y’all sufficient time to absorb what I just wrote. I had myself convinced that the baby was yanking on the umbilical cord, which in turn was really hurting my belly button region.

Although it may have taken me months – there did come a time when I realized that the baby’s own umbilical cord had nothing to do with my belly button and furthermore, that the baby surrounded by my womb did not have direct access to my belly button.

For the record, I had thought of myself as a fairly intelligent, well read individual until this realization. The moment it became clear I wracked my brain to try and remember if I had uttered this stupidity out loud! My concern was this…if I had said it out loud – was it so dumb that anybody who heard it wouldn’t have said anything for fear of being THE ONE who clued me in to an anatomy lesson I should have been very familiar with by this point?