a sign of Spring and new life

Maybe it's the hit and miss sleep I've been getting, but I really did not hear my alarm this morning.

I woke up to my husband kissing my forehead before he left for work.

I started taking Mountain Meadow Herb's Gentle Birth Formula last week, which means I'm less than five weeks from Little Mack's arrival date.

I have papers on the dining room table from the Breastfeeding Basics class I went to last night, along with a page of stamps I bought yesterday to send out thank you cards. Under all that is the Easter Flower order spread sheet I made for church.

On the floor by my feet, there is a laundry basket of folded towels, napkins and cloth rags that still need to be put away from two days ago.

The counter is full of dishes that need washed and the dish rack is full of clean dishes that still need to be put away from yesterday.

On a chair next to me is an unopened scrapbook I bought to save and remember things from this pregnancy.

I started a list (on the back of my list from yesterday) of things I would like to do before Little Mack comes, some things being: finish writing thank you cards, organize the guest room, wash/organize cloth diapers, hang curtains in the nursery, sew ring sling...

It is so easy to be overwhelmed by all these things.

It would be so easy to stress out and worry whether or not I cross these tasks off my list.

On the table in front of me is a slender, blue vase with three daffodils that my husband found by our spring house and cut for me yesterday, a sign of Spring and new life.


It is really amazing that every pregnancy, labor and delivery is different.

As any first time Momma there are so many unknowns.

I ask Little Mack,

"When are you going to come?"

"Will you be early?"

"Will you be late?"

"Are you positioned in a favorable way for your Momma?"

I will continue to take this all in--

every kick, every nudge, every flutter.

I will continue to take this one day at a time.


My to-do list will get done.
Maybe not today or the next day.

I will continue to count all these as blessings and rest in the peace and comfort that I have.

"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

Philippians 4:6-7

 

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