I think we can all agree that we are thankful for this warmer weather. To celebrate the warmth, I walked the trails for over 2 hours yesterday with another mama just soaking in the breeze and the 76 degree day. Mr. Winter has lingered on for way too long in my opinion and overstayed his welcome…. so, please don’t leave us warm weather! PLEASE!

Last summer, I was very pregnant. What goes hand in hand with summer pregnancy? The feeling of not being able to escape the heat. I was always SO hot in my pregnancy… hence the reason I hibernated indoors most of the year. Well our AC is an older unit so it decided that it wanted a break last year. The first time was while Patrick was in India! That was crazy. The second time it stopped working was the weekend of my baby shower. I was 31 weeks pregnant in July and the AC stopped working. I was miserable. Well, the good husband that I have, surprised me with one of the best gifts ever while I was away at my baby shower.

I came home to a hot house and was instructed to walk upstairs. As I climbed the staircase, the temperature began to lower. Well this is weird. I was then instructed it go into our room. Ok…..? Sub artic temperatures hit me. What is going on??? I look into our bathroom window and Patrick had installed a window unit while I was gone. It was the most glorious thing I had seen. Most of the summer I felt like I couldn’t escape the heat but my bedroom was transformed into my own little artic oasis. I remember just standing in the bathroom for extended amounts of time just to feel the 60 degree air being blasted on my body.  Have I mentioned that my husband is amazing?

Well, I’m obviously not pregnant anymore but pregnancy has left me feeling more hot in temperature, especially when  I sleep. With the low in the 60’s last night, I thought I would be fine if we didn’t turn the AC on for the house. I seriously tossed and turned all night. I was so hot and uncomfortable. I was even sleeping without any covers on! I kept checking the monitor to make sure Bennett wasn’t trying to squirm his way out from his covers. Surprisingly he didn’t move much last night.

Anyways, by 3 am I gave in, got up and turned on our bedroom AC unit. We sleep with our door closed so it started cooling the room almost immediately. Sweet relief. Under the covers I went and I quickly fell into a deep sleep.

This morning though, Bennett woke me up by coming over the monitor with his usual babbling. I got out of bed, threw on the robe to go feed him and when I opened my door and the warmth of the rest of the house hit me, the feeling took me right back to being pregnant. Like I’m pretty sure if I reached down, I would have felt a watermelon sized belly. It literally stopped me in my tracks. It AMAZES me how certain smells, songs, feelings, etc take you back to very distinct times in your life.

The “How He loves song” takes me back to the night my dad passed away. Leaving an artic-ly cold room on a warm summer morning apparently takes me right back to being very pregnant.

Do you have any “Takes me right back” moments? I would LOVE to hear about them 🙂