It's been hard to put everything out there...post all the dr visit updates...my feelings...
I've been doing some paper and pen journaling to record my thoughts this time instead.
Feeling a little more guarded. Working on trusting the only One who is in Control...protecting myself, and you, from being so invested with all the details.
I know many of you have checked in several times over the last few months... and have found no new posts.
So today, I thought I'd share some of the pictures my friend, Kayte, from Legacy Portraits took a couple weeks ago.
It was one -on a short list- of baby steps I've been taking to "get excited" about nearing the end of my pregnancy and meeting this precious girl!! I'm thankful for some sweet memories on a very sunny morning :)
Ok, just to clarify, I'm 35 weeks today. The negotiating of Baby K's birthday has begun with my doc. I know he will continue to gently push me to make it to 37+ weeks. He'd like her to be about 6 lbs. He said at my last appointment that waiting is like shuffleboard...we want to get as close to the edge without going over. Of course, I've looked at the calendar - full of black ink and orange and yellow highlights- that show all the boy's baseball games, end of school, start of basketball camp, grad parties, family traveling in and available to take care of T & D etc... I think I know when would be ideal...we'll just have to see if baby and my doc and I can be patient enough to continue waiting for the best timing both physically and emotionally.
Meditating on some of these truths lately...
"We wait in hope for the Lord; he is our help and our shield. In him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in his holy name." -Ps 33:20
"As for God, His way is blameless...He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him. For who is God, but the Lord? And who is a rock except our God." - Ps 18:30-31
"Be strong and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in the Lord." -Ps 31:24
"This is the day which the Lord has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it." -Ps 118:24
"For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb...And in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them." -Ps 139:13-16
{This is the little bear hat I made for Baby Koning...still working on the blanket to match.}
"Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit." -Rom 15:13
