Love.

Good Morning.

These peaceful mornings are doing good things for my soul.

I am still feeling wonderful today. With no morning sickness yet, I can't help but wonder how little one is doing. After two extrememly sick pregnancies, I can tell that this one feels so different. Is the pregnancy just different? Or is something wrong? There is so much fear the first few months of pregnancy. With something so delicate...anything can go wrong. All I can do is hope for a healthy baby, and that everything is ok. It this one is easy though, I will be extremely thankful.

5 weeks and 3 days today.

Looking forward to a day of creating with my girls. I have tissue paper ghosts planned to make and hang around the house. I love having the time to sit and watch my girls make things. Children's curiosity and imagination amaze me. It is boundless.

I am very thankful this morning to be a stay at home mom. My husband gives me this gift so graciously and I love him so much for this. He is the most unselfish man I have ever met. I am the luckiest woman in the world.

Front Porch Pics

I love my front porch.

I love my daughters.

Fall Crafts

The Final Pregnancy

Knowing this is my final time being pregnant changes the way I look at this pregnancy. I want it to slow down a little... this is the last time I will ever be 5 weeks and 2 days pregnant. I cherish every little tenderness and twinge. I don't want it to end. This is what the little one looks like:

hard to believe this is going to grow into anything resembling a child. Some hilights of what is going on this week...
1. first signs of heartbeat begin.
2. umbilical cord develops
3. baby's blood is now pumping
4. most other organs start to develop
5. arm and leg buds appear

How amazing. I am so in love with this experience.

Oh my how life is changing.

I checked my blog today and noticed that I haven't made an entry since June. Yikes.

I am thinking it is a good time to start keeping a collection of my thoughts again becuase I am in for a wonderful change.

Jon and I have been talking for the last few years about expanding our family. Our minds were always set to no, but our hearts proved to have different ideas of thier own. Our baby, Ruby turned three in June. With this, I started realizing that I wasn't ready for this phase of my life to be over. I missed everything about being pregnant and being a new mother. I missed holding my babies, and being proud of all the new accomplishments. I yearned for another child.

The girls went off to preschool this august and it broke my heart. I started to feel less needed and empty. I knew that something was missing...and after months of talking it over, we decided that the missing piece was another child. Our family was great the way it was, and we are so lucky get to be Delaney and Ruby's parents, but it was time to add another member.

So, September was the month to try. I took two tests on September 29th with faint lines on both. I took two more tests on October 1st....and this is the result.

The little plus on the left means positive. Both tests turned out this way. If calculations are correct, then today i am 5 weeks and 1 day.

and so this begins....im am so happy...