Giving Thanks (inspired by)


Thanks be to God, Father, Son and Spirit, for the abundance of good things he pours on His children.
We are but few, but His blessings are many.

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Things that DO NOT bring on labor

Wanting to go into labor

Praying to go into labor

A week of sleep-deprivation due to contractions, restless legs, and nesting

Vacuuming underneath the furniture

Having long discussions with the baby about how nice it would be if he would decide to see the outside world TODAY... really baby, it might be very noisy out here, but there is MUCH more room to move around!

Long walks down a country road while herding toddlers

Taking long hot baths

power vacuuming

power mopping

power window washing

power dancing

Laughing so hard your insides hurt (thanks Mary Anne and Anette!)

ENORMOUS amounts of adrenaline coursing through your body after what looked like a major head injury to Aggie (she is fine!)

Running full speed through a parking lot in a thunderstorm (after eating too much fried onion!)

Watching MICHIGAN STATE clobber UCONN! Whoo hooo! (During the game even Marcus learned how to say "they're going DOWN" ...of course it sounds more like "GO DOWN!"

So as you can see, we are still waiting. It is nice to know that we will not have to wait any longer than this wednesday (the 8th) when I will be induced. In the meantime, we are enjoying our oddly quiet house... the 3 older children left with Grammy Pammy and Bump for vacation early this morning! It has been a fun day so far spoiling our little Marcus, babying the baby who will not get to be the baby much longer!


PS I can't wait to see you mom!!!!

1 comment:

Jeni said...

OH Emily! I had to laugh out loud when reading your blog!!!! It is SO TRUE!!!!!! NONE of those things work! I would also like to add the "unmentionable" (which got us into this in the first place), getting a massage and pushing on pressure points, weather pressure changes or eating spicy foods. Guess it should just show us that these babies come when THEY'RE ready! Praying for you!!!