"This baby's always been opinionated" says the Pregnant Lady.
It's 10:30 PM on D+3 and she's still pregnant.
And she says to me you didn't do your blog today, "oh no." Good thing I've got the mobile Blogger installed on my phone so I can just speak into it and it types for me.
So I was busy today cleaning the house dusting and vacuuming, preparing, cleaning, making the house as clean and dust free for Baby Mitton as I possibly can.
The baby doesn't like the vacuum cleaner, and the cats don't like the lawnmower. No, the lawnmower was not inside the house (I also mowed the lawn....)
So mom is ready to have the baby on the outside and so am I. Getting excited about having this little one around! I'm already fast forwarding to scenes that might play out four and five years down the road, but once this little one is here I'm sure I'll be slapped back into reality.
The suitcases are packed, the iPod is full of relaxing music, cameras are charged with plenty of space and I have hard drive space cleared off for the millions of pictures and videos to come.
I've been instructed, I'm not allowed to laugh at her pain during delivery but I like AFV and Wipeout.... I may not be able to help myself and I may get slugged.
We are ready... just waiting on the little one to make up its mind when it's ready.
Then again the Fourth of July is only four days away!!!!!!
But, she may not have slept all night. The Pregnant Lady is finding it extremely difficult to arrive at a position & location that allows for lengthy sleep.
She says "preparation for the sleepless nights ahead."
Not to mention, a bit too much laughter or coughing sends her running for the throne room...
She just said to me last night, "some women say they enjoy their pregnancies?" No so here.
Although chewable Papaya Extract has helped hugely in the last few weeks with the acid reflux!
There's not much to do but wait, search the web for info on what to do, and more importantly, what not to do...
Now it's just me following the lawn mower, but that's OK! I'm thinking it'll be a few years before Baby Mitton can do the mowing...
We eagerly await our little package, but we realize that all will change then...
The feet pushing out the side of Mom seem to indicate that the Little One is ready too!
I draw near to being a father (on the outside that is) - there is most certainly a baby rolling around inside the Pregnant Lady, I am a Dad!!!! No doubt about that!
On the day of, & this day after Dad's Day, I think not of myself, but of my lovely Pregnant Lady who has endured 9+months of:
- Sleepless Nights
- Restless Legs
- Growing uncomfortableness
- Kicks to the rib cage (the baby, the baby! Not me...)
- Chilled extremities
- 3am baths to seek relief
- Pregnancy Brain (which kinda makes me feel smarter.... :)
& Acid Reflux that makes the China Syndrome a personal reality.
Thank you Pregnant Lady for enduring all these things and more, and still managing to make our house a home, preparing for all that is to come, and keeping a sweet spirit through it all.
We are truly Blessed!!!!!!!
And to my parents, who went through this same amazing miracle of life growing within about 50 years ago, I say "Thanks for having me! I really appreciate it!"
And Dad, thanks for being a Man of God & showing me the narrow path!
Wish you could be here to see your Grandchild, but thanks for giving a legacy that leads to life!
So, about 1.5 weeks to go "officially."
We eagerly await Baby Mitton's arrival and continuing on this Adventure together with God!
Sooooo, people keep telling me "your life is going to change" often throwing in a "forever" at the end of that sentence...
Then they say, "in a good way," but it's almost like a cautionary statement.
It's OK. I don't mind if life is about to change, that's part of the adventure! It's ALMOST time I grew up anyway...
I am looking forward to our little ones arrival! We are going to pour into this child... Musical instruments, languages, lot's of learning... Lot's of travel (I hope/plan!).
So yeah, life IS about to change, somewhere in the next 18 days perhaps, unless the baby decides to stay put. The Mom, on the other hand is pretty much ready for the arrival & to have room to breathe again!
Perhaps one of the cooler things is I get to visit Toy Departments again, and play with, I mean, instruct in the proper usage of toy type thingys!
1973 - Sears Toy Department. Like going to Disneyland, but free!
Well here we are, within "one month" (officially). With that in mind, The Pregnant Lady said to me, "let's do a little get away while we still can..." So off to the beach we went.. A lovely 2 nights with an ocean front view, rest, relaxation, and some relief floating in the pool - relief for the Pregnant Lady, "taking the load off" so to speak...
Excuse me, you're blocking the view!
I must admit, I am rather excited at the prospect of becoming a father (on the outside - I already am, it's just the kid's still cooking). Something that I had given up on a decade or two past.
My father was 40 when I showed up, and he was a GREAT Dad, but I had announced to myself "If I'm going to have kids, it will be in my 30's." Ha! That's like saying to God "Please don't ever send me back to Orlando," and yes, that's where he sent me, :) albeit temporarily.
On this journey & adventure of life I am constantly reminded that my timing is not Gods timing, my plans are not His, AND the more I give up to Him, the more he piles on the blessings!
Example: We were blessed to journey to Israel 1 year ago with a group from church. Something we could not have done this year. Timing! God's Timing! AWESOME!
Joseph approves of the view.
God's timing: Christine & I met 20 years ago in church, almost got together then, but didn't (that's another story), reconnected a few years back, married 3.5 years ago and now we are both -
LIVING A SECOND LIFETIME!!!!!!!!
And what a blessing it has been.. Almost as if we've been thrust back into our early 30's. And yes, the records show that my body is 49, but to me my mind is that of 32. To my wife, 12... well, sometimes. :o
All that to say regardless of the milage, I'm ready to take this child on many more adventures. Already planning on buying the State & National Parks passports so we can keep track of our visits, and I'll have to take him or her back to "the old country Mate!" and if they were to say to me "I wanna backpack around Europe" my response will be "I'll pack right now!"
Cleo likes the fresh ocean air!
Eggs & Toast Cutout, the very first cook!
Not a lot of sleep or comfortable positions for the pregnant lady these days, but she's a trooper! She says it's getting her prepared for the sleepless nights ahead...
I surprised her last Friday with a new snap on electric range, so she can bake when she's not sleeping... Kidding! It needed to be replaced, and the Memorial Day sales were too good to pass up, and we'd been saving & looking for a year... Timing!
So now when she says she's tired, or she hurts, I say "if it's any consolation, I bought you a new range...!" And she laughs. :) She's so awesome, my Pregnant Lady!
Till next time!
PM
One of my favs!
Matthew 6
New International Version (NIV)
Do Not Worry
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]?
