Well, we are getting closer and closer to meeting this new baby! And to be honest this hasn't been "real" for me until very recently! My lower back is getting worse, my hips keep me up at night, my right rib cage is painful at night (for some reason), it's HOT, and my heartburn is barely manageable. And I don't care even a little! If this baby comes two weeks past his or her due date I won't care! All these ailments getting worse, the pelvic pain, the stronger braxton hicks contractions all mean I'm getting closer to meeting our new family member! This baby's movements are very impressive and strong! And I say, "bring it on!" My stomach is HUGE! The kids are marveling at it on a regular basis. And I love my belly! I know I'm gonna have a heck of a time losing weight after this baby (although I have done WAY better with weight gain than I did with Wild Man, so that is a plus) and I don't care! I'm just so thankful to be pregnant with a living baby. A month ago a lady in sunday school asked me how long I had and I responded with the "2 months" answer I knew would get the sympathetic astonished look. I smiled and said, "I know I know. I'm full all the way up to here (pointing to my diaphragm) but there is plenty of growing room out here (pointing about a foot in front of my belly)." HA! And just for anyone wondering the same thing I hear all the time when I'm out, NO! I am NOT done! If I was done, I'd have a baby in my arms. : ) I want a big healthy baby, I am not wishing for an early baby. Every day that I'm pregnant I feel more blessed. I wake in the morning and thank God immediately that I can feel this little dude or dudette rolling around and hurting my ribs for another day. I LOVE how excited my kids are! Especially my girls. They are just coming out of their skin ready to cuddle this baby! I told them I was gonna hold the baby all the time and I would slap their hand if they tried to. Tender giggled, knowing I was joking, but I got a serious glare from Hurricane before I explained I was joking. It is an overwhelming joy to bless them in this way, by giving them a new baby brother or sister. Well! I suppose I've overdone my counting of pregnancy blessings! Sorry to go on! Oh, and physically and emotionally this has been my hardest pregnancy yet! Isn't it amazing how the Lord uses the hardest times to bless us? I'm just in awe.
Today is Jasper's fourth birthday! Last year his birthday was really hard but this year it's been alright. Not too terribly emotional. In memory of him we are doing our normal baking of dirt cupcakes and singing to him. Hurricane organized a "Fun Run" and her and the other kids ran that this morning and on the last lap they decided to yell "Happy Birthday Jasper" over and over while they ran. Except The Boy, he yelled, "Jasper loves God". Also I thought I would share a story that I don't believe I shared with very many people before. All through Jasper's pregnancy I went to Zumba class at the Y. So all the ladies there knew me and were excited about our baby too. I went back to Zumba about two months after he died and everyone there quickly found out that he had died and they were treating me really awkwardly. Except this one day when I went and an elderly lady that I hadn't seen since the death came in late and waved at me all excited having seen me not pregnant anymore! She was happy for me! She wasn't mortified or dodging eye contact. So after the class she ran over all bubbly and excited and said, "Oh!!! You had your baby!! What was it?! A boy or girl?" I was so blessed by her happiness over my son that I didn't tell her he had died immediately. First I answered all the normal "just had a baby" questions smiling from ear to ear!! It was such a great moment. When she had satisfied her curiosity and started to walk off I stopped her and said, "But he died. And it's okay, thank you so much for asking about him. I love to talk about him." I had to tell her it was okay because immediately she wanted to apologize for talking about him. I don't suppose she knows how much I loved our conversation because she didn't believe me when I told so. She probably thought I was being nice and trying to help her not to feel so bad. SO, we have a busy month for birthdays!! Jasper is today, and Wild Man is August 20th! We are gonna do a little party that day and play with water guns and have a lego shaped cake (hopefully!). I'm hoping the new baby's birthday will be at some point after Wild Man's birthday, not during or before! Otherwise Daddy will be trying to bake a lego cake and that might be scary! ; ) Otherwise, we have little planned until this baby is born except preparing for the new school year (which we will start a few weeks after baby is born) and preparing for the baby.
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This week Daddy brought home about 15 pounds of wild apricots from the farm he works at. They are about the size of quarters and very sweet! The kids loved eating them fresh but they were all gonna go bad before we could finish them all so we made Apricot Crisp Bars, apricot fruit spread, and the girls halved and pitted 4 pounds of apricots to dehydrate. They are quite a bit more tart after you cook them but that doesn't stop the kids! They loved them!
We were invited to three different parties for the 4th but we ended up going to our church's get together. It was at our Sunday School teacher's house. He's a horticulturist and grows lots of yummy things! He had his blueberry patch ready for anyone to pick as much as they wanted! The bushes are 20 years old! And we had watermelon (currently my favorite craving) and shot fireworks and the kids ran and ran and played and played. We headed home and our neighbors invited us over to shoot fire works with them so we went over there and ended up getting to bed by 11:30! Quite a rare experience for our children! This week is my 33 week prenatal and then in two more weeks will be our Home Visit! Which means that I will officially be far enough along that I'm cleared to have a home birth and the midwife will come over and learn the ropes of our home so that she can clean up after the birth and do laundry and get around in our kitchen and such. It's an exciting prenatal appt because we have to officially have all of our all of our supplies ready. In other words Robert and I have 2 1/2 weeks to organize all of our birth supplies and put the cradle together and then we will just be waiting for God's timing and this baby's unknown birthday! It's been very busy for Robert in the last few weeks. He is rarely getting home before 7:00 and sometimes not until 9:00. But that should pass soon as they finish harvesting. Me and the kids are enjoying the summer. We've been swimming and we go to the library. I go to the chiropractor every other week and I'm seeing a counselor at a local church once a week (as long as I can get a babysitter). Tender won an I Spy contest at the library a couple weeks ago! We are slowly trying to get the freezers stocked for the post-partum period so that I have much less to do for preparing meals. This week we did breakfast burritos and two meals of Red Beans and Rice. Next week I am hoping to get some pizza crust made and maybe some homemade cinnamon rolls! : ) |
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