I guess we'll have a Chrsitmas baby.

I have until Monday to have this baby naturally and then the doctors will induce. Please pray that baby will come before Monday. Some people fear spiders, but I fear medicine. It's not a conviction, it's not even that thought through; i'm just afraid. It is easy for me to believe that God has equipped my fallen body to handle things such as childbirth, but it's not so easy for me to believe that God has allowed us medicine that can aide the process. I know that's not reasonable, but especially at 41.5 weeks pregnant, i'm not a reasonable person.

If baby doesn't come we will go to the hospital on Sunday night for the doctors to put some kind of "let's make the cervix ready" cream in me. That could send us into labor. If it doesn't send me into labor I can see Sunday night going two ways..... 1- I cry all night because the cream isn't working and i'm in a hospital and i'm afraid of labor with drugs or 2- I am comforted by all the great hospital staff and have more confidence in God's provision of medicine by Monday morning. Let's all pray for the second!! (But most of all let's pray that baby comes before Sunday.)

Here's me last weekend outside the Memphis Zoo. I heard that babies like to come when there is a full moon, so i made sure the moon saw my full belly. It didn't work. All the walking didn't work either... or the primerose oil... or the caster oil... or anything else we tried.



But we will have our sweet baby this time next week... all 8 pounds 6 ounces of her if the ultrasound predicted right. ;)

I am really excited about being a mother and about seeing Jon as a daddy. It will be nice to sit (or stand bouncing and hitting a baby's bottom) on Christmas day and ponder the birth of Christ along with the birth of our baby. It makes things a little more real this Christmas season to be soooo GREAT with child.

Excited!!!

I'm super excited for several reasons. First, our baby is due on Sunday. I can't wait to meet her!! It will be so nice just to get to see what she looks like and to kiss her sweet face. Please pray that she comes soon, that the labor goes well, and that she is healthy. I really want to have natural childbirth, so it would be really nice not to be induced and not to have to get an epidural. Jon's been GREAT the last few weeks. He is going to be such a help once I go into labor. I have the BEST husband.




Reason #2 for intense excitement: Yesterday was my last day at work. I was going to work until the baby came, but I changed my mind. Funny thing is that I didn't change my mind until yesterday morning. Jon said he was all for me quiting early, so at 9:00 I asked my boss permission and at 11:30 I left Forest Cove for good. Yesterday afternoon and today have been so great!!




Reason #3 for being super excited: It's Christmas. And Christmas is my FAVORITE!!!!! This Christmas is extra special because it is Jon and I's first Christmas as a married couple. It is so fun to establish our own Christmas traditions. We went to get out tree on Sunday, the first Sunday of Advent. Jon had never been to a Christmas Tree Farm, but I insisted and I'm glad I did. Jon says he will look forward to going again next year. Growing up I would look forward to picking our tree all year long. I can't imagine not having a real tree. They smell so good.

Here's me hugging a random tree.

This is the one we finally picked out. It was the first one we saw, but I made Jon chase me through all the other trees anyway.
I like that the baby is in this picture!!!


Here is almost the finished product. Since then Aaron and Alice have lent us a box full of extra ornaments that some of the girls at church made last year. The lights are Brian and Cindy's. I like that our first tree is full of other people's things. It makes me happy to think of them when I look at the tree.