One Month!!!!

What?!?!?!  How is it possible that my due date is one month from today?!  Where did the time go?  When I was in the early weeks of pregnancy and quite sick I didn't think this time would ever get here, and yet it is so fast approaching.  Now of course February 8 is just an estimate, she could come earlier or later, but still we are looking at around a month!  I switch between nervousness and excitement!  What I have prayed for so long is finally happening and yet now that it is here I don't know what to do!  It's kind of like right before I got married.  I wanted to be married for so long and it was days before my wedding when I began to freak out a little, I realized I had never been a wife and was scared that I wouldn't know what to do and that I might be a bad wife.  I have no idea how to be a mom, this is all new to me and sometimes I am scared I might not be good at it! But then I remember something, I am not alone.  Of course I have Joey and we are in this together, but more important than that, the Lord is with us.  Just as He led me through His Word to know what a godly wife looks like, He will lead us both into how to be godly parents as we seek Him first.  It is nice to know we don't have to look to this world or to other people (though we do have several godly parents that we gleam from their years of experience of raising children)  but we just lift our eyes up and seek God's way of doing things. 

In other news, I have begun to waddle!!!  Yep, I'm a waddling pregnant lady!  Not all the time, but when I get up from sitting or out of the bed, I waddle!  Things have begun to get a little, shall we say...crowded? tight? uncomfortable?  here at the end.  I have really tried hard not complain about pains and other issues.  It was really hard for me to deal with when we were trying to get pregnant and I would encounter a pregnant lady who only complained about how hard it was and how much she was hurting.  In the beginning when I would get sick I would try my best to thank God in the midst of throwing up, because being sick was a result of the baby growing inside of me that I had prayed so long for.  As she grows, there is less room for things that have always had plenty of room inside of me, like my lungs, or my stomach, or my bladder!  But soon and very soon, she will no longer be inside of me, but in our arms and we will be able to hold her and love her and cuddle her.  I know in a lot of ways I am going to miss this time of being pregnant and her inside of me.  It's still so neat to me that she is IN me and that I can feel her moving around and kicking, punching, twirling, jumping, I don't really know what she is doing in there, I just know she is active! 

So are we ready for her? well you take a look and tell me.....

This is her room!  Yep, one month to go and no walls or floor!  She really doesn't need a room right now, she will be with us in our room at night for quite some time.  But I didn't want to be under construction with a newborn so Joey is working very hard to get all this ready before she gets here.  But where did we put all the stuff we have been getting for her, well in the living room, which looks like this: 

We are in what Joey calls "chunk mode" we are chunking out a bunch of our stuff.  Throwing some away and giving away plenty as well.  We are trying to simplify our life because we simply have too much stuff.  I have really been trying to limit the amount of baby "stuff" we get too, but it's hard to know what you really need until she is here.  But I am daily chipping away at this chaotic mess and we are getting organized and I am getting EXCITED!!!

Ok I promise pictures are to come soon of me and my belly, which really aren't two different things, though my belly quite large!  I am having some baby showers and I will be sure someone will take some pictures, it's just hard to take pictures of yourself!