How far along? 28 weeks 3 days
Total Weight Gain: hang on to your butts- we're up 13 lbs 😳
Maternity Clothes: #nopants has commenced, b/c honestly, who wants to shove a basketball in their pants and walk around like that all day. nope...no one.
Best moment of this week: Today!!!! Mother's Day has been, over the past three years, a day of absolute perfection. My family goes above and beyond to make me feel appreciated today, but to be frank, they do that all the time. I am one lucky Mrs. to have a Mr. that treats me with consideration, puts me in my place (tactfully) and puts me first when making all decisions. To say that I am blessed would be an understatement and let me never forget it!
Miss Anything? Walking up the stairs without getting winded, but mostly just sushi and wine.
Movement: Last night Paul and I were sitting on the couch watching The Great British Baking Show and we watched this kid play drums on my insides. He was jamming out to some tune in his head, either that or he really loved the taco bell I had tucked into earlier 😜
Anything making you queasy or sick? If I eat too much sugar I get a wave of nausea; I'm really looking forward to my glucose test Thursday, said no pregnant woman ever!
Gender: Boy
Symptoms: Two words: lightning crotch...tmi? Often times I imagine him jumping around in there like my cervix is a trampoline, which I assure you, it's not.
Symptoms: Two words: lightning crotch...tmi? Often times I imagine him jumping around in there like my cervix is a trampoline, which I assure you, it's not.
Belly button in or out? Totally flat, like a pancake, but with a tiny mound-like structure.
Wedding rings on or off? On
Happy or Moody most of the time: Happy! It's been a wonderful weekend and with only two weeks left until summer, the pool open already, and the grill fired up almost every night, we're in full-on summer mode!
Looking forward to: Getting this dreaded glucose test over with and the rhogam shot that goes along with it. On a more exciting note, Remy's birthday party is this week and she is over the moon excited. I am half- crying/half-cheering because she's four. How did that happen? Did I blink? I feel like I want to go back and slow motion everything from one year and on because who really wants to slow motion the newborn phase? All that spit-up, all that crying, no sleep and then there's the baby. What's that you say, we're doing it all again? Isn't that definition of crazy, but then you look at your four year old and say, totally worth it!
In honor of Mother's Day, I thought I'd like to take a moment to recognize all the women out there that find this day painful. In no way do I find the fact that I'm a mom for granted. This is a deep desire that I prayed for so many years ago and for so long. When we were blessed with Remy, we both knew that this was the part of life that was missing and my how it turned our lives upside down. We prayed again for her to have a sibling and again after a bout of tough news, the Lord performed a genuine miracle and this little sprout in my belly was conceived. All of science said no, doctors said there my be a small chance or no chance at all. This road was not an easy one, and I know how easy we had it in comparison to so many out there, but I felt strongly that I wanted it to be known that we see you, moms-to-be and we're rooting for you and praying for you. We so desperately want you to enter in the fray of motherhood, to join along side us in glitter or poop- depending on the day-up to your eye balls, those little hands that grip yours and those little hearts that engulf yours. You are not alone and if this is the desire of your heart, know that "Every good gift and every perfect gift from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change." James 1:17. It is in my experience and in my mother's experience as well, that He draws near to the broken-hearted and that He is faithful.
A Mother's Day Tribute:
In honor of Mother's Day, I thought I'd like to take a moment to recognize all the women out there that find this day painful. In no way do I find the fact that I'm a mom for granted. This is a deep desire that I prayed for so many years ago and for so long. When we were blessed with Remy, we both knew that this was the part of life that was missing and my how it turned our lives upside down. We prayed again for her to have a sibling and again after a bout of tough news, the Lord performed a genuine miracle and this little sprout in my belly was conceived. All of science said no, doctors said there my be a small chance or no chance at all. This road was not an easy one, and I know how easy we had it in comparison to so many out there, but I felt strongly that I wanted it to be known that we see you, moms-to-be and we're rooting for you and praying for you. We so desperately want you to enter in the fray of motherhood, to join along side us in glitter or poop- depending on the day-up to your eye balls, those little hands that grip yours and those little hearts that engulf yours. You are not alone and if this is the desire of your heart, know that "Every good gift and every perfect gift from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change." James 1:17. It is in my experience and in my mother's experience as well, that He draws near to the broken-hearted and that He is faithful.
