Before it's here it changes your life

I am so excited to be prego! I tell you what, it has changed my life already and baby Madison isn't even here yet. (Every time I say baby Madison I think people are going to think we are naming the baby Madison, but then it would be Madison Madison and we are just not that crazy). He or she is due at the end of June or beginning of July, which seems so far away and yet so close. I think until I develop a belly the reality of what is happening has not set in yet. I am 11 weeks and going in for my first ultrasound next Tuesday. That will be an amazing moment to finally see a baby in my belly.

BUT, I am definitely having those lovely prego symptoms:
- Sick
- Tired
- Forgetful
- Clumsy ( I am telling you this child has already taken my brain)
- Did I mention TIRED
- Headaches

I am sure I am forgetting something, but you get the gist. As much as those things might be an inconvenience I am still so excited to be pregnant. It changes your life instantly. I have to take more vitamins, be careful of how I exercise, getting rest, what I eat. I am already responsible for another life before they are even actually here.

It is quite amazing to think that I am as we speak forming a new life. God is knitting together a child in His image for Steve and I to care for and raise up as a fully devoted follower of Christ. An independent, kind and compassionate person who contributes to society and to others (well that is of course what I pray). It really is amazing, that God has blessed us with this child. I can say that I did not know when He would allow this in our lives. I knew He promised it to us, I knew we were meant to be parents, but you just never know when God will unveil His promises.

That has been the greatest miracle to me. Go told us that a child was in our future. He spoke this to me in my prayers and in the moments I watched other become parents and rejoiced with them while inside wishing for that in my own life. What I do know about God is that He knows when we are ready when we may not. We are ready now (as ready as you can be to be a parent), and he has placed each step needed in front of us by His grace. I still feel undeserving.

On another note...I would say my best prego moment so far is dumping a can of beans in the blender (including the lid) and turning it on. Ah, the sound of blended metal :) I thought in my head I may have dropped the lid in and the normal Laura would have looked, yet prego Laura just let it slide... And knives, just take them away, I have the motor skills of a 2 year old :)

The second best part about being pregnant is being 8 weeks behind my sister. It is her first child and I am excited to share the experience with her!
- Cravings (Luckily this doesn't happen to often, but when it does, watch out!)