We went to the doctor today for my weekly appt a few days early to see what the baby was up to before Adam left town tomorrow. Apparently he's pretty comfy in there. I'm not dialated at all or anything so it'll probably be at least another week before he decides for it to be his birthday. I'll certainly keep you updated if he changes his mind.
:)
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Well I'm still here
I'm still hanging out. Here at work. I've been trying to finish projects (at work and home) in anticipation of this momentous occasion that seems like it will never occur. But I know it will, it may just still be a while.
My ticker says I have 11 days until my due date. Will he come before then? I don't know.
This weekend I even got down on my hands and knees to clean the bathroom and kitchen floors (I'm sure it was a great sight) and not even more than 3 hard contractions before they went away, so I can only assume he's not ready yet. Or maybe I haven't cleaned enough
I'll be back at the doctor tomorrow (so that we know where I stand before Adam leaves town) and so we'll see then if there's any action. I've just been having back aches and cramps, but still nothing consistent, although they are getting stronger.
Until then, I'll just keep refolding the baby clothes in my obsessive kind of way. And have a party this weekend with just the girls while I'm "baby" sat by Darci. Those should be good distractions.
My ticker says I have 11 days until my due date. Will he come before then? I don't know.
This weekend I even got down on my hands and knees to clean the bathroom and kitchen floors (I'm sure it was a great sight) and not even more than 3 hard contractions before they went away, so I can only assume he's not ready yet. Or maybe I haven't cleaned enough
I'll be back at the doctor tomorrow (so that we know where I stand before Adam leaves town) and so we'll see then if there's any action. I've just been having back aches and cramps, but still nothing consistent, although they are getting stronger.
Until then, I'll just keep refolding the baby clothes in my obsessive kind of way. And have a party this weekend with just the girls while I'm "baby" sat by Darci. Those should be good distractions.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
37-38 week appt
I'm still hanging around. Nothing much is going on. This little boy seems very happy to just be hanging out in there and is in no hurry to get to the outside world (even though his mommy is really anxious for him to get here).
We all know the longer he stays in, the healthier he's likely to be and that's fine with me as long as he would let me sleep well at night. :-)
I'll be back at the doctor Wednesday before Adam leaves town on Thursday for an extended weekend away. Hopefully, by the time he gets back we'll have a better understanding of what future holds for us. We'll share all that when we know something definite.
I'm still crafting, but it's slowed down a little. Well not really slowed down, but some long unfinished projects are being finished up (including an afghan I started a year ago and never finished) and some gifts are being made, so they need to remain secretive until that time in which it can be revealed what they are. I'll get some picks up as soon as I can.
If you think of it, pray for us. Adam's traveling a week before my due date makes me a tad bit nervous (even though everything is accounted for) and I'm just feeling a little in limbo trying to understand myself in these few weeks before I adjust to my new role as Mommy.
Mom mentioned to me today that this weekend is the last weekend of "just Adam and Cara in Texas." Next weekend Adam will be out of town, then it's Graduation Bonanza weekend with friends and family in town from all over the country, the hopefully by then we'll have a third little person in our family (mostly hopefully because so many people want to meet him while they are here for graduation). So we are celebrating "US" tonight with dinner and a movie. And we saw a movie last weekend. Man it's nice to just get out of the house whenever we want wiithout a lot of drama. I know that's soon coming to a close. :-)
We all know the longer he stays in, the healthier he's likely to be and that's fine with me as long as he would let me sleep well at night. :-)
I'll be back at the doctor Wednesday before Adam leaves town on Thursday for an extended weekend away. Hopefully, by the time he gets back we'll have a better understanding of what future holds for us. We'll share all that when we know something definite.
I'm still crafting, but it's slowed down a little. Well not really slowed down, but some long unfinished projects are being finished up (including an afghan I started a year ago and never finished) and some gifts are being made, so they need to remain secretive until that time in which it can be revealed what they are. I'll get some picks up as soon as I can.
If you think of it, pray for us. Adam's traveling a week before my due date makes me a tad bit nervous (even though everything is accounted for) and I'm just feeling a little in limbo trying to understand myself in these few weeks before I adjust to my new role as Mommy.
Mom mentioned to me today that this weekend is the last weekend of "just Adam and Cara in Texas." Next weekend Adam will be out of town, then it's Graduation Bonanza weekend with friends and family in town from all over the country, the hopefully by then we'll have a third little person in our family (mostly hopefully because so many people want to meet him while they are here for graduation). So we are celebrating "US" tonight with dinner and a movie. And we saw a movie last weekend. Man it's nice to just get out of the house whenever we want wiithout a lot of drama. I know that's soon coming to a close. :-)
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Why my friends are awesome
I've felt your guys' love lately, so if you've been leaving me messages (you know, on here, facebook, myspace, cell phone, email, outside my apt door, visits) I've loved every single one. I haven't been able to return all the love, but I love it.
I'm feeling well. We'll see at the doctor's tomorrow what's going on. I'll have an update. I promise.
Keep the love coming, it's really the only thing keeping me going some days. I just can't promise I'll get back to you soon, but know that when I read a comment or listen to a voicemail I pray for you, your various situations, and for your continued ministry of encouragement, because you sure have encouraged me.
Today I watched a wonderful friend with a wonderful honor of preaching to the students and faculty of DTS. Bill Koogler did an amazing job at challenging the students to beware of worldly distractions especially in the ministry and struck my heart with his words. But what is truly amazing (and what made me tear up a couple of times today, and again right now) was sitting towards the back of the auditorium with the Carters on one side and my husband, Darby, and baby Kate on the other was realizing the beginning of the end of this era.
The Kooglers were our first friends in seminary, we met having dinner at their apartment sitting on a freshly purchased futon (which eventually became our futon) and scrounging up chairs (one was an exercise ball) to have dinner around a second hand table. I remember feeling almost sheer desperation at wanting a friend so badly at that point (we'd lived here almost three months without making any real "friends") and I found that with Darby, as well as Adam finding that in Bill. The Carters quickly became friends with the four of us after that and we've had some fun times over the years.
Today as we sat there, all of us looking at future ministry in different fields and perspectives and capacities, I felt the enormity of God's grace and provision for each of us over the years. Getting to celebrate Bill's achievement today allowed me to celebrate God's goodness as well. So way to go Bill, I am truly proud of you like a sister.
This morning also signaled, as I wrote in an email today, the beginning of the end for us. Truly the closing of an "era" in our lives. I've spent so much time and energy lately focused on the near future (having this baby, moving, Adam candidating and interviewing) that it snuck up on me that time is drawing to a close in this chapter. From here on out for the next two weeks, it's picnics and parties, and friends visiting, and family, and runs to the airport. As always, I'm sure it will be so busy, I'll forget to enjoy it and then be left with that post holiday season feeling of "where did it all go?" with a twist of regret and emptiness.
So I want to enjoy the feeling of anticipation now while I have it and enjoy the excitement of the unknowns still there for our friends and us who will begin the ministries we have been dreaming and planning and learning and ultimately CALLED to for the past 2-4 years. That's really it, I love the feeling of knowing you are CALLED to do something by God, knowing that there is something there but not quite knowing exactly how it will work or what it will be like. It's kinda like knowing you are going to be surprised, but not knowing how or when or where or why, but all the same you know there is going to be a great and wonderful thing there.
I'm feeling well. We'll see at the doctor's tomorrow what's going on. I'll have an update. I promise.
Keep the love coming, it's really the only thing keeping me going some days. I just can't promise I'll get back to you soon, but know that when I read a comment or listen to a voicemail I pray for you, your various situations, and for your continued ministry of encouragement, because you sure have encouraged me.
Today I watched a wonderful friend with a wonderful honor of preaching to the students and faculty of DTS. Bill Koogler did an amazing job at challenging the students to beware of worldly distractions especially in the ministry and struck my heart with his words. But what is truly amazing (and what made me tear up a couple of times today, and again right now) was sitting towards the back of the auditorium with the Carters on one side and my husband, Darby, and baby Kate on the other was realizing the beginning of the end of this era.
The Kooglers were our first friends in seminary, we met having dinner at their apartment sitting on a freshly purchased futon (which eventually became our futon) and scrounging up chairs (one was an exercise ball) to have dinner around a second hand table. I remember feeling almost sheer desperation at wanting a friend so badly at that point (we'd lived here almost three months without making any real "friends") and I found that with Darby, as well as Adam finding that in Bill. The Carters quickly became friends with the four of us after that and we've had some fun times over the years.
Today as we sat there, all of us looking at future ministry in different fields and perspectives and capacities, I felt the enormity of God's grace and provision for each of us over the years. Getting to celebrate Bill's achievement today allowed me to celebrate God's goodness as well. So way to go Bill, I am truly proud of you like a sister.
This morning also signaled, as I wrote in an email today, the beginning of the end for us. Truly the closing of an "era" in our lives. I've spent so much time and energy lately focused on the near future (having this baby, moving, Adam candidating and interviewing) that it snuck up on me that time is drawing to a close in this chapter. From here on out for the next two weeks, it's picnics and parties, and friends visiting, and family, and runs to the airport. As always, I'm sure it will be so busy, I'll forget to enjoy it and then be left with that post holiday season feeling of "where did it all go?" with a twist of regret and emptiness.
So I want to enjoy the feeling of anticipation now while I have it and enjoy the excitement of the unknowns still there for our friends and us who will begin the ministries we have been dreaming and planning and learning and ultimately CALLED to for the past 2-4 years. That's really it, I love the feeling of knowing you are CALLED to do something by God, knowing that there is something there but not quite knowing exactly how it will work or what it will be like. It's kinda like knowing you are going to be surprised, but not knowing how or when or where or why, but all the same you know there is going to be a great and wonderful thing there.
Monday, April 21, 2008
This is Adam at Disney's Epcot Japan this past Christmas
This is the robot we bought for some decoration in the retro space room that our child will have someday.
Coincidence? Of course not!
A little about this Robot from here.
Robot Lilliput represents a snapshot of a time when the promise of factory automation and dreams of space travel were only grand imaginings. But the dreams had to start somewhere, and Robot Lilliput was there — self-propelled, humanoid and ready for adventure.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Twenty Days!
Twenty Days until my due date. Will I make it? I don't think I will.
My contractions have been stronger and last night got down to 7 minutes apart for an hour. But then they slowed down when I laid back down to get some more sleep. But they are getting stronger and more consistent. Will he come this week? We hope so! We can't wait to see his little face and meet him.
My contractions have been stronger and last night got down to 7 minutes apart for an hour. But then they slowed down when I laid back down to get some more sleep. But they are getting stronger and more consistent. Will he come this week? We hope so! We can't wait to see his little face and meet him.
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