Thank You God for Motherhood

Hello world! One exhausted mama here. Coffee is my new best friend and sleep is a long lost friend I wish I could connect with more. Laundry and I get together every weekend. She is an annoying but necessary friendship... what are ya going to do? My brain no longer comprehends silence, or peace and quite. I'm singing Elmo songs and Baby Einstein music continuously. Oh! My child clapping her hands was the most exciting part of my week! =D It was her most exciting part too. 

This is where we are on our parenthood journey right now. A place where the words "I'll babysit!" are tear conjuring on a hard day. A place where, some nights she sleeps just fine but then she will go three nights in a row of waking up every couple of hours just because she is lonely.... 

Can I just say by the way, playing peek-a-boo with my daughter is the greatest thing on the planet. She hides behind a doorway, or hides part of her face with her tiny little hand and starts playing with you. That smile.... priceless. 

I can think of nothing on this earth I would rather be than her mom. We can have a really horrible day. She will be constantly screaming, irritable and everything. I can be at my wits end.... but then I sit down to rock her to sleep for the night.... she snuggles into me.... and I tear up..... This little girl is MY daughter.... I take a few moments to thank God for such a wonderful blessing and then sit there to soak up the snuggles before bed. 

So here we are. She is almost a year old (time please stop!!), and I am still in awe of the blessing God has bestowed on us. She will be walking so very soon. She has a tooth! She can clap, play peek-a-boo, blow kisses (when she wants) and I am still constantly amazed. Her smile melts my heart. 

There are days where motherhood can be so hard (as I know many already know), but there isn't a day that goes by that I don't stop and thank God for allowing me the privilege of getting to be her mother. For the good and the bad. The ups and downs. The laundry, the dishes, the mess, the exhaustion and the annoying little songs in my head. 

Thank you God for motherhood and all that comes with it!

La la la la, la la la la, Elmo's world.... wait... sorry... 

-Kelcy J.

 

SURPRISE!!!

So I wanted to start by saying thanks to everyone who has been praying about the opportunity I mentioned in my last post. God, however, had other plans and allowed that opportunity to fall through. We were upset at first. We were really hoping things would work out but God's plans are better than ours and not long after he said "I have something better" he showed us that something better.

I've waited to post this so that I could go ahead and let you all know that my husband and I are expecting a sweet little blessing in October of this year =D That's right.... WE'RE PREGNANT!!!

We were just as surprised as I'm sure some of you are but we are thrilled nonetheless. I would've posted on here sooner but things, as I'm sure many of you can imagine, have been a little crazy and a lot busy since finding out. I have had more doctors appointments than I would like to have had due to some problems I was having and I'm learning quickly that this doctor will probably be my new best friend by the end of these nine months.

Anyway, we are super excited to start this chapter of our lives together. The gym took a little bit of a back burner position once I found out because we didn't know whether or not my doctor was going to let me continue working out the way that I have been. Much to my surprise everything seems to point to a healthy pregnancy (other than my diabetes which I am now checking several times a day), so I can start working out again and I can't wait. I have missed it. Now if I can just get my husband to calm down and understand that doc says I'm okay, so I'm okay. He has been so super protective since we found out:) It's hilarious.

So now we wait. Wait for the next appointment. Wait for the next ultrasound. Get everything ready and wait some more. Everyone keeps saying these nine months will be over before I know it but so far it's passing at a normal rate.... oh well.

A new journey is beginning and I think I need to get all the sleep I can before it truly does.

Goodnight!
-Kelcy J.