With only a few weeks left to go in my pregnancy, I couldn’t be more thrilled. I’m terribly excited about meeting my unborn son. I’ve started collecting baby things and receiving gifts from family and friends. It won’t be long before the baby shower is held.
There’s one gift I’d like for myself at this stage in my pregnancy and something no one has given me. It’s something nobody would ever expect anyone to really want. I’m talking toilet paper. Not just any old toilet paper, but the really very soft kind that I can’t afford anymore.
Being 35 weeks along in the miracle of gestation, I go to the bathroom a lot. It’s not that my bladder is constantly full or that I have some sort of infection that causes frequent urination- It’s baby pushing relentlessly on my bladder. I spend more time visiting the bathroom than anywhere else.
I manage to go through enough toilet paper to serve a small country. It gets expensive. So my family buys the off brand now. I get chaffed. I’m in desperate need of some cushy toilet paper. It’s bad enough that I use the bathroom umpteen times a day, but it’s worse when the experience becomes less than physically pleasant.
If you throw me a baby shower, please, please, please don’t forget that I need a little special something too. If I get anything for playing a valuable role in life of baby, please let it that really soft, fluffy kind of toilet paper. I’m not asking much for me. A couple of packages will do- just to see me to through the next 5 weeks. It really is the simple things in life that mean so much. |
