27 was a big year of changes for us... We left a city that we had grown to love with a lot of friends that we loved even more... to move "home" to a city that we have not lived in for about 10 years! WOW!! Talk about a culture shock! So, then, we decided to make the HUGE adult purchase of a home, which again, was a HUGE shock (who knew you could make the biggest purchase of your life in one day?!)!! And then, the biggest SHOCKER of them all was learning that we are going to be a mommy and daddy to BGT!!! So, as I have closed out and made it through year 27 of life, I have learned a lot, hopefully grown up a lot, and am as ready as I can be for year 28!!!
As most of you know, I am HUGE on birthdays. Whether it be my own, or other people's, I LOVE-LOVE-LOVE to celebrate birthdays! To me, it is such a fabulous way to show friends how much you love them, and well, it's a random celebration in the middle of the year... who doesn't love that?! So, this year is a bit different! As I turn 28 today, which is such an uneventful year (typically), I will not be "celebrating" per say or as Dan says, I'm"temporarily hanging up my karaoke hat" BUT I am looking forward to my 28th year of existence and all of the NEW that will be joining my life!!! And well, it is totally worth NOT "celebrating" to make sure my little darlin' girl has all of her body parts (ears and whatnot) and is healthy and happy... I can "celebrate" A LOT when she gets here:)
On to BGT... I just met a lady who hesitated to ask if I am pregnant... I think she was being nice because there is nothing about me that doesn't look HUGE and pregnant!!! As we began talking, I asked her if she was one of those women who "loved being pregnant"?? She smirked and with the sweetest under her breath voice said "yes". But then she explained that they had a hard time getting pregnant and that she had to give birth to her baby girl at 20-something weeks and she didn't make it, so her situation was different. I thought to myself (as I am in my mid-20 weeks), no, it's not different, it's actually very, very,very common. So hearing yet another tragedy, I can only think that whether we were "ready" or not, the Lord chose us to be parents NOW and we must embrace and obey Him!!! And so far, we have a healthy baby girl on the horizon and we cannot be more thankful and excited!
We have started to piece together her room but as you probably know, I'm a perfectionist and can't make any decisions! I'm afraid the room won't be perfect and well that isn't ok!!! I haven't found any bedding that I love and I think it's because I'm not a very "themed" person. I personally hate patterns and most prints so it's hard for me to have an explosion of anything in one room... I have found these pillows from Guatemala that resemble the Mexican Oaxaca dresses we "San Antonians" used to wear as kids and I'm trying to go off of them. I'm thinking bright, solid bedding (turquoise, pink, lime, orange-ish) colors, with maybe one wall of something cute like butterflies or something. But again, I'm hesitant because I want to, and want BGT to LOVE it!!! Other than that, we have her first 2 outfits that are so stinkin' cute and that's about it!
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