Mail Time!

I've always been convinced that there are few things in life that are more exciting than getting mail with your name on it. Like the "for real" mail. Not junk mail. Or bills.

So you can only imagine how excited I was when the UPS guy walked up with a huge box with my name on it...and how much more excited I was when I found out that the box wasn't for me but for our little girl....

Thank you Katie and Donnie Nickey!!! Both for the baby gifts and for making my day so exciting.

 And also for making Josh laugh his "thats really cute" laugh everytime he walks by this:

 And word has it Katie is in labor right now with her little guy Trey... How exciting!!! Praying for you and your precious little boy.

Just barely sliding by....no pun intended.

I wouldn't exactly call last night's birthing class a success, but we can say we made it through. The video night consisted of four "all natural" births with "all natural" graphics and "all natural" sounds.

We both started out strong when the computer animation demonstration was going on, but as the real people started popping out babies with all the breathing and the grunting we both started getting a little antsy. I noticed that Josh's legs were getting pretty wiggly and his face was slowly draining all color, it was then that I knew it was time for a mint and ice water...keep that in mind people...it works miracles. With the help of our little miracle workers, and Josh being such a manly man, he was able to pull it together and watch all four without any trips to the bathroom.  Well done Doodie, well done.

Its safe to say that we are both thankful to have that over with and after an uneasy evening, filled with anxiousness following the class, we were able to make it through sleeping last night nightmare free. But as Josh does tend to talk in his sleep if he has had a stressful day, it was completely justified when he sat up last night, asked to borrow a pencil and  then looked through the sheets for a pen that he wanted me to borrow.


For Josh I think that all of his "uneasy queasy" is behind him and he is just plain excited now...I mean, how could he not be when he gets a new pair of jeans which match the ones I found for his little buddy...

As for all of that anxiousness that was created in my heart during class last night .... gone the second Josh turned to me and said "Can I tell you something....our baby already has my heart."  Bring it on birth, bring it on.

I feel like we earned a night to take it down a notch, so we decided that Playing Rummikub while eating cupcakes was just the key. The cupcakes, by the way, made by my wonderful husband all by himself....He is just too sweet.

 

Hello strangers!

Yes, we are still alive....

I've been trying to get back into this blogging business for the past month now, but everytime I login and hit the "Edit" button on the post titled "Hello Strangers" the feeling of overwhelmedness (I think I made that word up) starts creeping in...I have no idea where to start to get you filled in on the past 5/6 ish months of our life....after overwhelmedness -- sheer panic. Once the panic hits then comes frustration closely followed by a closed laptop.

So I've decided we won't try to do that in one post. My new motto: Keep it simple, stupid.

 I'll catch you up as we go along but to start off, we'll cover the important ones....

1. We are still anxiously awaiting the arrival of our little girl...T-minus 10 weeks until D-day. Its taking way too long for us to get to meet this little one and to say we are excited is the understatement of the year. Its strange how after 7 months of her being with us Josh and I feel like we know her already.

2. Upon arrival back in the States, Josh and I have been blessed beyond belief with God's provision in our lives. We had no doubt that He would deliver, but man, did He deliver...Josh was offered a job within a month of being back, he started two weeks later and now we are fully insured with a steady income. Its amazing how much more important insurance becomes when you know you are on a timeline. "Obamacare" was sounding pretty good for a while...

3. My parents have been such a blessing as well, giving up their basement for the employed but still homeless us...especailly when they were on the brink of finally having the house to themselves after 28 years of raising 4 kids.

So thats good for now on catching up, we'll talk more about that later... Lets talk about tonight...

Here in about 3 hours Josh and I are headed to birthing class #2 where they show the videos of birth. I'm a little concerned. I wouldn't be as worried about it if he wouldn't have gotten whitish/green faced and ran to the bathroom after our first doctor's appointment where I had to get a "girlie test" and blood drawn ...true story. He says its only because it was me. He's precious and I love him.

I'm sure he'll do a great job, especially because there is a Sonic run waiting for him at the end of our movie date. But then again, he might not want to eat.

I'll let you know how it goes...