Thursday, February 28, 2013
Friday, February 22, 2013
Shower Time - All Over the World!
I have been blessed with ridiculously wonderful friends.
In addition to our fun online time together, they, along with many others, created a blog for "Baby Keitt" & Co. Laci sent the link to me Saturday morning and I spent quite a few minutes on the couch reading the entries while crying, laughing, and overall just being amazed by how well my friends know me and how to love me best, even from so far away. If you want to see what I mean, just check out the blog:
I also just realized that I never shared pics from the shower I had here in January. It was a "surprise" shower thrown for me by my host/Chilean mom and a bunch of women and friends from church. It was pretty similar to stateside showers - food (of course), games, gifts, and chatting. We had a time of advice-giving from current mothers which was very helpful and sweet :) Overall, it was just another humbling reminder of how many people we have that truly care about us and love us well.
As far as Lil' Man goes, we are full term (37 weeks) tomorrow! But obviously with his mom and dad's punctuality genes, we're not expecting him to be early, if even on time :)
This whole having a baby thing of course is a really joyous thing, but it's times like these when it also makes you especially miss the people that know you the most.
So my friend Laci, techno-savvy that she is, decided to throw me a "virtual" baby shower, courtesy of Google+. (For those of you, like myself, that don't really understand the point of Google+, let me just share with you that while I don't know any other reasons to have it, it does allow you to video chat with up to 9 of your friends for free. AMAZING!) Saturday morning we all logged on, chatted it up, shared some fun stories, and of course played some trivia. If you know the goodness of a Skype conversation with a good friend or family member, just multiply that excitement by 9, and that's what it was like!!
And if you ever want to contribute to the blog, just send us an email and we will send you the link to publish one! I know that Lil' Man will appreciate someday, and his parents will now.
I also just realized that I never shared pics from the shower I had here in January. It was a "surprise" shower thrown for me by my host/Chilean mom and a bunch of women and friends from church. It was pretty similar to stateside showers - food (of course), games, gifts, and chatting. We had a time of advice-giving from current mothers which was very helpful and sweet :) Overall, it was just another humbling reminder of how many people we have that truly care about us and love us well.
As far as Lil' Man goes, we are full term (37 weeks) tomorrow! But obviously with his mom and dad's punctuality genes, we're not expecting him to be early, if even on time :)
Friday, February 8, 2013
Sleepless Nights
I've been meaning to come up with a new hobby since this insomnia is becoming ever more frequent these days. It's not even that I'm uncomfortable, it's just that I'm completely wide awake for 2-4 hour windows in the middle of the night for no apparent reason. And now I get really excited when I wake up in the morning and realize I made it through the entire night sleeping... Well, minus the expected 2-3 bathroom visits of course. Is this just practical preparation for parenthood? :)
Maybe it's the excitement that's getting to me. I know (supposedly) I have 5 more weeks left before we meet Lil' Man, but it seems so close now! And when I do sleep, I honestly wake up most mornings and kind of forget I'm pregnant... of course I quickly remember as I have to very literally "roll" out of bed... and it's like a whole new gift every morning.
It makes me think about other nights where the excitement is just too much and I can't sleep, like...
... the night before our wedding...
... the night before I moved to Costa Rica for a semester (well, more like the 2 hours I slept before my early morning flight since I put off packing until the VERY last minute, like always... Why is packing such a dreaded task???)...
... the last night of living in a dorm...
... the last night of living with my roommates...
... the night after the phone call with Tracey where we suddenly weren't just "good friends" anymore, and what the heck did that mean?? ...
... the night after we Skyped with Doug and knew Chile was exactly what God had for us...
... any night before taking a flight somewhere, (again excitement, but more likely due to my packing issue...)
... the night before my first day of teaching...
... the night before my last day of teaching...
... the night before my first half-marathon, (not a great time to not sleep...)
... the night before we knew we'd be picking Mere up from the airport... and then Joelpants and Claire a year later... and Jules if I had known she'd be flying in...
All these sleepless nights, including the present ones, just make me more and more grateful for the life I have already lived, the one I'm in today, and ALL the unknowns of my life in the future. And even if that includes sleepless nights that are due more to crying babies than they are to the excitement of the unknown... well then, bring it. It may not feel exciting at 3:00 in the morning or the next day when I feel like I've been hit by a bus... but as far as long-term excitement, you are already worth it Lil' Man!
Maybe it's the excitement that's getting to me. I know (supposedly) I have 5 more weeks left before we meet Lil' Man, but it seems so close now! And when I do sleep, I honestly wake up most mornings and kind of forget I'm pregnant... of course I quickly remember as I have to very literally "roll" out of bed... and it's like a whole new gift every morning.
It makes me think about other nights where the excitement is just too much and I can't sleep, like...
... the night before our wedding...
... the night before I moved to Costa Rica for a semester (well, more like the 2 hours I slept before my early morning flight since I put off packing until the VERY last minute, like always... Why is packing such a dreaded task???)...
... the last night of living in a dorm...
... the last night of living with my roommates...
... the night after the phone call with Tracey where we suddenly weren't just "good friends" anymore, and what the heck did that mean?? ...
... the night after we Skyped with Doug and knew Chile was exactly what God had for us...
... any night before taking a flight somewhere, (again excitement, but more likely due to my packing issue...)
... the night before my first day of teaching...
... the night before my last day of teaching...
... the night before my first half-marathon, (not a great time to not sleep...)
... the night before we knew we'd be picking Mere up from the airport... and then Joelpants and Claire a year later... and Jules if I had known she'd be flying in...
All these sleepless nights, including the present ones, just make me more and more grateful for the life I have already lived, the one I'm in today, and ALL the unknowns of my life in the future. And even if that includes sleepless nights that are due more to crying babies than they are to the excitement of the unknown... well then, bring it. It may not feel exciting at 3:00 in the morning or the next day when I feel like I've been hit by a bus... but as far as long-term excitement, you are already worth it Lil' Man!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)