Getting ready

On my list was to wash and fold all the baby clothes and wash our bassinette bedding. My wonderful mother is here and is helping me with this. It is pretty exciting looking at all those cute little sleepers -- and sharing it with the boys who are so very excited. Joel kept saying "aw ... it's just so cute Mommy".

Today I am 32 weeks and 6 days pregnant (this is one day more pregnant than I was with Joshua.) I am so very thankful for my precious Joshua -- my sweet little 22 month old. I thank God for how perfect he is. I am also so very thankful for this pregnancy ... believing for a full term baby and an easy delivery. God is so very good to me.

Holidays in Hand

I'm taking the Jessica Sprague Holidays in hand class (I think today is the last day you can sign up ... it's free).

Today's assignment was to think about Holiday values: (and making a goal for how these will happen in this Christmas season)
1. A time to remember Jesus and to be thankful for what He did (and continues to do) for us.
2. Time to be with family
a) our immediate family
b) our extended family
c) the friends that have become family
3. Blessing the people we love.

Words that describe some of my values:
Peace, family, togetherness, friends, laughter, food, lights, gratitude, sparkle, fun, sharing, giving, connecting, joy, beauty, music

Goals are a little tougher ... and will require some thought. Need to plan some immediate family time (maybe a movie with the kids, maybe a date with Matt) I need to think about how to make value number one more prominent this year.

32

Today I am 32 weeks pregnant. WOO HOO! Every day that this baby continues to incubate is a blessing! Believing that he or she will stay in there the full 40 weeks!

I've been working hard on baby quilts ... I decided to make a pink one first. It's gone really quick - I had all the fabric cut on thursday morning and tonight I finished the quilt top. The process goes much more quickly because there is no longer any hesitation for me - in cutting the beautiful fabric, or sewing the beautiful fabric. I spent the most time trying to figure out what I wanted to do ... lots of thinking, some conferring with my wonderful MIL who is great with picking fabrics, and lots of Flickr surfing for inspiration (it's amazing to me how much inspiration is on Flickr for quilting).

A frosty morning ...

Having a wonderful morning with my boys ... and spending time working on my projects. Here is a sneak peak at my next quilt (working on a baby girl quilt).

Working on stuff ...

I got my December CK magazine and was inspired by Kayleigh's layout ... this is my lift. I haven't scrapbooked in ages and so tonight while I should have been sleeping I was scrapping ... so theraputic though.



Today I am 31 weeks pregnant. Planning on incubating this one for 9 more weeks (even though I feel ENORMOUS!) Thanks to Allison and Glen for the new sweater (I finally used my birthday gift certificate!)



This morning I washed all my fabric (I pink the edges first so that they don't fray) and went shopping with my MIL to the fabric store ... I had such a lovely time. I love you R!

So as you see, I need to work on some stuff before this baby is born (I need all nine weeks)!
Peace to you!

It is finished!

I finished Joel's quilt this afternoon! I really really like it ... so glad that I spent the time to "fix" it. Next time I need to a better job with the binding. Excited that he get's to snuggle under it tonight (and so is he!)

Gotta start the next project ...

PS, Happy Birthday to the love of my life.

Turn Baby Turn

I had another ultrasound on Monday ... I'm 30 weeks along and the baby is growing well and everything is good. The only thing is that this baby is STILL breech. But, I believe that he or she will turn and be head down soon. Josh was transverse and he turned ... and so will this baby. (And just in case you were wondering ... having a monthly ultrasound is not a normal thing in Canada - my Dr. is having them done to watch me closely because Josh was 8 weeks premature.)

My giraffe and my lion ...

The lion and the list

This roaring lion got to go to playschool today. He told me he had fun and that there were lots of princesses at school today. Then the lion said: "I can't tell you anymore because I'm too busy roaring."

Today I've been thinking about all the things I have on my list to do in the next 10 weeks: (some are must do, some are want to do)

1. Finish Joel's quilt. I'm in the quilting stage. This has taken me forever because I was having a lot of trouble with the tension on my machine when I was trying to freemotion quilt - so I spent several hours picking out all the stitches and now I'm just putting horizontal lines on it (they are far from straight - hoping I'll like the wonky look).



2. Make a quilt for the new baby (I'd really like to make a pink and a blue ... we'll see if I even get to this).
3. December Daily. (This will be a project I've done three years in a row. A project inspired by Ali Edwards. I'm close to having the bones of the album finished ... then I will just have to journal and take pictures every day in December - a fun little commitment with a wonderful keepsake at the end).
4. Get ready for Christmas:
a) buy and or make some gifts
b) baking (I'd like to have some cookies in the freezer)
c) decorate the house (not until December).
d) make and send out our Christmas cards
5. Get ready for baby
a) move Josh into Joel's room
b) pull out the new baby clothes and wash them
c) wash the bassinette and set it up in our room
5. Finish my 2007 blog book.

That's about all I can think of right now ... I'm sure I'll think of MANY more to do ... most important thing to do for sure is to keep incubating this baby (which is kicking me right now!)

Trust

There has been a whole lot of hype and talk about H1N1 (the swine flu) lately, at least in my neck of the world. So I wanted to just put my thoughts down. This is what we are going to do. My obstetrician has asked me to have the vaccine (apparently H1N1 has been particularly nasty to pregnant women) and so Matt and I have decided to immunize our whole family. AND (more importantly) we are also going to "give all our worries and cares to God, for He cares about what happens to us." (1 Peter 5:7) We are also going to trust in His healing promises particularly in Isaiah 53 "Yet He Himself bore our sicknesses, and He carried our pains; but we in turn regarded Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. But He was pierced because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; punishment for our peace was on Him, and we are healed by His wounds." (Isaiah 3:4-5). Planning on staying healthy and whole this year!