7. With only a few exceptions, our new home is finally put together...and we LOVE it. Love it!!! Pictures to come soon!
6. Since February when Patrick and I found out we are going to be parents, our lives in many ways have increased to be intensely more complicated, wrapped in a myriad of adult-like decisions that we must find solutions for. However there is ONE step into adulthood that we have excitedly taken, even cherished: last Wednesday, Patrick and I traded in our futon for a couch. That's right: a real, live, adult-like couch. No way you'd ever see this sucker in a dorm room. Anyone need a futon?
5. I'm still sleeping through the night, for the most part, which I've heard is somewhat rare.
4. Every time I put my tennis shoes on to exercise, I am immensely grateful that I have not been pregnant during the winter where items like socks and non-slip-on shoes would be essential.
3. I've been able to share my colossal size and end-of-pregnancy with one of my oldest and best friends, Monica, who's been in DC visiting this week.
2. Patrick and I monitor my belly button every few days, each day with the same question: is this the day it's going to have popped out? It's so close. As silly as this sounds, today as I was looking at my belly button, it hit me that what I was looking at was my - everyone's - biggest bodily reminder that we were all babies once, physically connected to our mothers not all that long ago. In just a few days, my my mom and mother-in-law will be here to share in Patrick's and my very first baby shower. I am so thankful for my mother and the close relationship we share. I am also incredibly thankful to have such an amazing mother-in-law. Our families have already been so supportive of us every step of this pregnancies; it's humbling to be connected so much love!
1. I am feeling LARGE these days. I mean, really, really L-A-R-G-E. And I recognize that there is still a month and three weeks (only a month & three weeks?!?) left of major growing (I have already passed what I had hoped would be my total weight gain for the entire pregnancy). HOWEVER, this is by far one of the most incredible experiences that any human being could ever be a part of, and I am often struck, usually as I'm feeling our baby flip and turn in my belly, at what an honor it is to be allowed to play this kind of part in the process of creation. What more can be said of that than just...Wow.
If everyone could be as sweet and as positive and my wonderful daughter-in-law!! I know our granddaughter will be just like her. I love you all three so much!
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Great post! It is amazing, isn't it? We were watching the movie Juno the other night and I got all teary when she had the baby--partly b/c I think women who give their babies up for adoption are incredibly brave, partly b/c it's still just so amazing to me that God choses to use us to contain and nurture and grow OTHER HUMANS! crazy and beautiful!
ReplyDeleteIt is amazingly awesome when you think about creating a baby, and feel her moving and kicking...inside!! Such a bond, and soon will be here for us all to marvel and love! I feel so blessed and privledged to be a grandmother - Just WOW, is right! Lv, Grammie (can't wait to see you all, and your adult-like COUCH!)
ReplyDeleteJust wait til you go through labor. I mean that in a good way. I think although it was hard....it was the most amazing thing I have ever done in my life. And then to see Zoey for the first time. I felt so much more love for Joey and I was just amazed at the miracle God created.
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