Now that blogger is finally letting me put up these pictures I'll get to tell you about Thanksgiving and pregnancy and such. It'll just be an extra long blog.
This is the bassinet that my sister-in-law is letting me borrow and I could not be more grateful. I went through my baby registry and was a little overwhelmed about how much baby stuff costs so to be able to borrow something that I will probably only use for the first month or two of my baby's life is so reassuring to me.
This is me and my bump at 25 weeks. Silly me I thought that I would make it through my whole pregnancy without having to buy maternity shirts. This week I found some great deals and bought 6 more maternity shirts just to wear wherever ( my mom already had bought me a few nice ones to wear to church ) and I also upgraded to maternity garments. I have 2 pairs of pants and a skirt so I feel good on the bottoms.
I must say that getting larger out front has made me realize a few things about myself. I used to be really skinny. Like borderline anorexia skinny. My doctors had told me that quite a few times during my teen years... and now I finally believe them. Not that they ever told me that I necessarily HAD to gain weight or anything, just that if I lost any they would start to worry big time. It's only really starting to get to me because I know that I'm going to have to work really hard to get even close to where I was. Granted, I've only gained a little less than 20 lbs so far, but I really want to be able to wear my jeans again someday. No worries though, I promise not to become obsessive about being super skinny. I'm having a baby so being "fat" is okay. Not that it would really stop me from stuffing my face with yummy food anyway.
These are the two newborn outfits that I absolutely love and absolutely can't decide between as a "coming home" outfit for my little boy. They are both just so cute. I'm thinking what will happen is I'll just take them both and then whatever one I get to first when its time to come home with be it!
Not many of you will notice or care but on my countdown to my due date I have officially gone down to double digits. Today for instance is 98 days until my due date. Also, just a week from today will be the start of my 3rd trimester.
May I just say that I am absolutely terrified of becoming a mother, of being responsible for a life other than my own. However, I have confidence that the Lord will help me become the person I need to be to care for this precious baby. He is already so important to me; I love him so much.
Thanksgiving this year was really quiet and fun. No pictures. We spent Thanksgiving Day over at AJ's dad's house with his Dad and Step-Mom, Uncle James and cousin Kristen. Dinner was wonderful! Then we played a couple board games and then a few card games. All in all just a nice quiet good time with the fam.
Then on Friday we went and had a second Thanksgiving with my family. I got to spend time with my two lovely nieces whom I love and adore. We didn't play any games but a good time was had by all.
It was really nice to spend time with both of our families.
I love that our families are all so close by. It makes the holidays fun, for me at least, to be able to go from house to house and spend a little time with everyone. It even extends the holiday sometimes when we spend one day with one family and the next with another.
I love Christmas and have been listening to Christmas music since the first of December and am really excited to start singing Christmas hymns at church. My favorites are O Little Town of Bethlehem (which we didn't sing last year) and I forget the name but its on either the page before or just after the one above and I don't have a hymn book close by or I'd look it up. But I really hope we get to sing both of those this year. I love them.
Okay, well, I apologize for this disjointed blog post, but thanks for reading anyway.
Also, this Christmas season, I am reading this amazing book Jesus the Christ.
This is the bassinet that my sister-in-law is letting me borrow and I could not be more grateful. I went through my baby registry and was a little overwhelmed about how much baby stuff costs so to be able to borrow something that I will probably only use for the first month or two of my baby's life is so reassuring to me.
This is me and my bump at 25 weeks. Silly me I thought that I would make it through my whole pregnancy without having to buy maternity shirts. This week I found some great deals and bought 6 more maternity shirts just to wear wherever ( my mom already had bought me a few nice ones to wear to church ) and I also upgraded to maternity garments. I have 2 pairs of pants and a skirt so I feel good on the bottoms.
These are the two newborn outfits that I absolutely love and absolutely can't decide between as a "coming home" outfit for my little boy. They are both just so cute. I'm thinking what will happen is I'll just take them both and then whatever one I get to first when its time to come home with be it!