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. |
