Super Mama Senses

Today's word of the day....

capacious \kuh-PAY-shuhs\, adjective: Able to contain much; roomy; spacious.

hmmm...can't really comment on this one as I'm not really impressed by it. Why not say spacious instead of capacious? Capacious sounds...ummm...I don't know...it sounds wordy. Or maybe nerdy? Not sure. It kind of reminds me of supercalifragilisticexpiallodocious...*humming* "...if you say it loud enough, you'll always sound atrocious..." ya ya ya ya...Mary Poppins and her magic bag have nothing on my magic ability to grow dust bunnies.

Back to today's topic...super senses. Something about becoming a mama has altered my hearing. Suddenly, I'm able to hear the slightest change in K-man's breathing while the baby is sleeping on the other side of the house. I can be in a deadasscoma (see? now there's a useful word!), and he can change positions and I'll hear him rustling in his crib. Hubby and I can be talking in the kitchen, with the tv on in the living room, and the air conditioner making it's usual humming noise (we're too cheap to get new air ducts, so we live with the noise and just turn the tv volume up louder when the ac kicks on), and that baby can gurgle and I'll be in his room in a split second. Which leads me to my next super power. I had a c-section, I'm still healing, it's been a difficult process, it sucks. No, I don't exercise every day. No, I'm not that super mom that can run a freaking marathon one year after having 6 babies. No, I haven't lost all the baby weight. And yes, when I do exercise a little it can make me so sore where I had the surgery that it'll put me in bed with a heating pad and a bottle of ibuprofen. BUT, if that baby makes an unusual sound, I can spring like lightening through that house to get to that child and never feel a thing. I'm like a mama blur whizzing around the pack-n-play and hurdling the jumperoo. Adrenaline is a good thing...a very good thing.