Feeling Good

I'm finally feeling good again...well, actually I have a cold, but that doesn't seem like much after months of morning sickness! My ultrasound has been scheduled-so I'll have gender news in just a few weeks...I can't wait! Tomorrow I'm going to Michigan to spend a week with Mom. I'm very excited to hang out with her, but I have such a hard time leaving Luke. He's the best thing that ever happened to me-and I always get this nervous thought about something happening to one of us while we're apart. Silly, I know. I think I must be in love :P I'm hoping the majority of our house will be framed by the time I get back.

I guess I don't really have any more news. I thank God for bringing me out of the pregnant "zone" that I seemed stuck in for the last couple months! Now I can be a normal, cheerful, active person again!

I think a bird is making its nest in my air conditioner right now!

Yay for Warm Sunny Days!

Not that I don't like spring storms, but I'm rather excited for some warm temperatures. I'm still waiting for that "I feel the best I've ever felt in my life" moment that is supposed to come 2nd Trimester...but at least I know I'll have a special little life-changing package at the end of it all! I haven't had much interest in decorating or working in my apartment lately...simply because all my brain power has been spent imagining the fun I'll have decorating a house this fall...poor neglected apartment. I'll confess, I've felt a little bit like the apostles: beat up and thrown in prison. Three months is quite a long time to be sick and tired. But I'll share some verses that encouraged me today...and I actually read them in my special, old King James Bible that was mom's years ago. So, hope you can interpret Old English okay.

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory; recieving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

Growing out

I'm beginning the stretch cream phase of pregnancy...and wish I could find the perfect (cheap and cute) maternity clothing store-no luck yet.

And one more thing....

I really love the bedspread and shams...but the reviews are iffy. Does anyone know a reason why I don't want a Chenille bedspread?

Things that have caught my eye!

April Showers...

I know I've been so bad at keeping this blog updated. Truth is, I don't have anything new to say really. Life has just been life since I found out I was pregnant....you know: some throwing up, nausia, queesiness, tired, etc. Fortunately, I'll be into my 2nd trimester next week, which means I should start feeling a lot better. I almost lost Grandma and Grandpa last month, and it's been a lot of work and waiting and watching, but they seem more stable now, although they need a lot of care. I definitely struggled with my changed status at Grandma's, as others have stepped in to meet needs there. But I'm glad it has given the family a chance to come together and be an encouragement to each other. Our house has been coming along slowly because of all the precipitation...but we do have a basement :) I have been busy with family visiting, midwife appointments, excercising, church ministries, Grandma, and just a million little things. I guess I'm actually feeling a little numb right now...like I know I am so blessed and I love Jesus Christ so much, but I can't seem to make my emotions and attitude quite connect with that truth right now. I think being pregnant makes me feel overwhelmed and I'm just sortof in a "zone". Well, I'm quite sure the Lord will pop me back out of that zone...and the sooner the better!

Luke has been a dream! He cooks breakfast for me (the midwife says I need to eat more protein and start gaining weight). He rubs my sore back every morning. He does everything I have to do so that it won't be as hard for me. What a sweetie :)

Oh, let's see: Jenny visited a few weeks ago and we had a wonderful time! Mom was able to take a break from caring for gma and gpa last week and she came to my apartment and we made soap. Luke is teaching me to play the drums...we practice every Wednesday before youth group. And I got to hear my baby for the first time this week! I guess those have been my highlights in the last month or so. Yikes, and I better stop gabbing because I still need to finish my laundry, get groceries, read a bunch of pregnancy info, and work out at the gym. I hope everyone who reads this is looking to Christ and finding joy and peace in His presense...I'm trying to :)