So let's just recap the changes I've had so far this year. It's about two months in and I have taken over conducting my kids choir and am in charge of their entire program this spring. My husband and I are looking at working in a professional capacity at a church. There's a big change right there we weren't expecting anytime soon! I got a new job and am getting used to not being a bum anymore. I've had to change my schedule completely due to said job. I'm looking at moving in the next few months and even buying a house. Now, you say, what else could possibly change? At least that was what I was saying. Well, I'm pregnant. That's not exactly a tiny change. Funny how you can be trying and still be completely taken by surprise when it actually happens. I guess they do say that it happens when you least expect it.
What's taken me by surprise the most is not the uncertain future of pregnancy or the fact that I'm pregnant, but the effect it's having on me here and now a measily five weeks in. I'm barely pregnant and my life has already changed drastically because of it. My stamina is cut about in half, I need to eat twice as much, I need to drink about twice as much, I need to cut my caffeine in half, I spend most of my life going to the bathroom yet again and, for the first time in my life, I can finally faint like Scarlett O'Hara. After only five weeks! My schedule is completely shot. Every Sunday morning I get up at the crack of dawn to get to the church around dawn and don't end up eating breakfast since food does not sound good that early in the morning. Then I conduct/sing through one rehearsal and two services, sometimes getting a snack but sometimes not, and I'm perfectly fine. Not anymore. Let's just say I was physically done half way through the rehearsal and almost fainted during the service. That would have been a funny scene. The conductor falling in a heap on the floor in the middle of "You're My All in All." I just cannot do what I used to do and it is monumentally frustrating!
Some things still coming up that there's no way I will physically be able to do:
Second service
Two kids choir rehearsals tonight
Conducting again next Sunday
The second half of all future rehearsals
Teaching and conducting all Palm Sunday music
Preparing for Palm Sunday music
Oh, and I saved the best for last! Conducting the entire Easter service three times back to back without a break. And I might even have actual morning sickness by that point and be throwing up. Maybe I should just keep a trash can next to my music stand?! Or run off periodically and tell they congregation we're in intermission?
Oh Lord, help!
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