Thanks to all those that check in on the three of us from time to time. We have taken somewhat of a break from blogging due to the craziness that we have called life since January 11, 2009!
We surely started the year off with a bang. We were getting used to the idea of being pregnant then a week after a nice vacation to the beach for New Year's with our best buds it all fell apart (or so it seemed). Between "the flood", the passing of Trey's grandmother and all the hospital time leading up to her passing, the morning sickness blues that began at week 14 and lasted till pretty recently , preparing to move out of our house for the repairs and then actually moving out for 2 1/2 weeks it has all been a blur.
Fast forward to today.......it has been exactly one week since we have been back in our house and our burdens seem a little lighter. While I am not one to place value on material things per say I did miss my house. They say when it rains it pours and while the things that have affected us are things we have conquered they all brought their own set of difficulties.
All of the things we have been dealing with have to some degree taken away from the fact that we have been trying to prepare for the fact that WE will be bringing a baby into this world in August (ready or not). That is what I thought anyways.......the more that I think about the past three months I think that it was a roundabout way of shaking up our otherwise fairly calm existance. Therefore, preparing us for the the changes this baby will bring.
So far we have not registered, picked out (or really even talked about) names, decided on what to do with a nursery etc. and somehow I feel at peace with that finally. I feel like we have been working on conquering other things much more important. We have been refining our ability to deal with the element of suprise, working on our patience, working on being more understanding, learning to deal with work limitations from being sick and figuring out how to best support each other through each of the various obstacles. That is all much more important than the "stuff" that the baby needs. I feel like we have been led through all of this and come through with some attributes that will come into play in different ways once the baby arrives but will still be quite useful.
I think all of this has really been a blessing in disguise. We learned a ton, gained some new perspectives and were reminded time and time again of the amazing people we have in our lives.
With that said......we are refocusing as of Sunday of this week! I am 22 weeks pregnant and we are ready to begin working on all the "physical" stuff we need to do to prepare for baby! We plan to talk names (and nail down clear options), clean out the room that will soon become the nursery, go shopping for some maternity clothing since I only have 1 pair of pants I love and kind of wear the same thing over and over ;) We are heading to Nashville next week hopefully to inaguate this refocusing. Do some shopping at Old Navy Maternity and go to USA Baby to look at baby furniture.
Thank you for taking the journey with us and I look forward to blogging again about this pregnancy and hopefully getting house pics posted next week and soon after that getting my talented husband to take some recent pics of us to begin documenting the pregnancy. And just maybe somewhere in there we will finally find out what we are having ;) Lots to come so hopefully you will stick around ;)
Healed by Mercy
3 days ago
3 comments:
Bri, you guys have been through SO much in the last few months. I hope that things continue to get better. I can't wait to see the before and after pictures of your house.
so glad to hear you're back at home! it sounds like you've been able to maintain a good perspective through all of this. good persepective certainly makes parenting much easier & much more enjoyable :) have fun picking out all of the "stuff"!
I'm glad you're back to blogging and happy you finally have your house back. I can't imagine what all you have been through over the last few months. I'm glad that ya'll have learned so much and tried to keep the right perspective...even though it hasn't been easy. As moms we want to have everything "ready" for our little one (or ones in my case), which is natural. I had to "let it go", too, once I went on complete bedrest at 24 weeks. It was hard to not be able to do all of the last minute things I really wanted to do. Really, though, that baby just needs a mommy and daddy that love him or her...and maybe a place to sleep, food and diapers. That's about the necessities. :) I'm happy you can start getting ready now, though. Can't wait to find out what "it" is.
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