Nicole stood on tip-toe and pushed the box up onto the closet shelf. She thought she had it until it caught on the flap of another box and twisted, tumbling back off the shelf and onto her arms Trying to balance it while she pushed it back up, Nicole huffed in aggravation. A pile of blankets tumbled off the shelf and fell in a jumbled mess on the floor. Flushed, exhausted, and in no mood to bend over and start cleaning, she tip-toed through the blankets and plopped down onto the couch. Closing her eyes, she was aware she could easily fall asleep. Between heartburn keeping her up at night, pressure on her chest from her growing belly which made it difficult to take a good breath in and having to get up every twenty minutes to use the restroom, she was worn out.
“Wow,” David said from the d
