Being Pregnant.

I love being pregnant.

At this moment, while I’m sitting here with a cup of coffee writing this post, it feels like she is doing some karate practice.

I don’t know how I’m going to be able to keep up with this wild little girl once she’s born!

It’s one of the best feelings in the world when your baby starts wiggling around and kicking! All you other mamas out there will understand. Feeling your baby moving is a feeling that isn’t like anything else, so it can’t really be explained.

Her daily morning stretch is something I’ve come to so look forward to! I can feel her whole head, back and bottom pressing sideways against my belly. We also have this little game we play in the early morning when I first wake up – where I start gently massaging a spot on my belly and then she starts pressing up or kicking that spot, then I’ll move over a little bit and we do it all over again. I had no idea how much you could actually interact with them while they are still in the womb! I feel like I already know her so well.

But, let’s be honest, even though I absolutely love so many things about being pregnant, it isn’t always a piece of cake.

Did someone say “cake”?!?!

I’m starting to get that signature pregnant lady waddle and I can only get my own socks on about half the time. Plus when I do get them on by myself it can take me 15 minutes. Luke has been such an amazing help through everything…he helps me put on my shoes and roll out of bed and gives me some awesome back massages that take all that pressure away!

And sometimes my pregnancy brain and hormones get the better of me. Sometimes I just can’t handle it anymore and something as stupid as a pot of water taking a long time to boil can make me cry.

Yes, my friends, it was a pot of water that did me in.

Just seeing it sitting on the stove, doing all of it’s not-boiling while I was already tired and just ready for dinner to be made, left me in angry and resentful tears.

I know, I know, I can be pretty dramatic…Luke agrees with you too!

If you need any hormones, you’re more than welcome to come and have some. I’ve got enough to share.

I’ll even make you a cup of coffee to go with ’em.

And let’s not forget to mention that I have to pee approximately 71,584 times a day.

I am about 30 weeks along now and it’s just starting to dawn on me that in a little over two months we will have our own little child.

That is a terrifying thought.

And yet such a wonderful thought!

I don’t think anyone is ever ready to be a parent, you just jump in and do the very best you can, and trust it all to God.

I can’t wait to welcome this little soul into the world and bring her up to know and love God. To have her with me every day, teaching her all the things that are important for ladies to know. I know it’ll be really hard at times – but isn’t everything worth having, a little difficult sometimes?