Changes everything.  I know this to be true, as I just had my third.  With each baby changes were made in my household and in myself.  I believe this one will be no different.  One of the changes I have noticed in myself, that seems to come on almost immediately but slowly fade away is that of being a better housekeeper. It’s the nesting thing I guess. I want everything clean and neat.  Maybe it’s the constant visitors to see the new baby, or a need to have everything around the new little one clean, but for some reason for a few weeks or so I’m a regular June Cleaver.  Unfortunately, it doesn’t last.

I am trying to figure out for the life of me how I can keep that quality around for longer.  But normally things tend to get busier as the baby grows, and is able to go with us and resume normal life rather than staying home so much with a newborn as we do at the beginning.

Has anyone else  noticed this? Or is it just me?

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A week ago today I gave birth to my third child. For the first time ever I journaled just before being induced. Here is my journal entry:

This is the first time I’ve ever journaled or written anything down just before giving birth. With my oldest, I was young and scared only 23 and had no clue what awaited me. It proved to be 2 long days in a hospital bed before giving birth to my firstborn, a rambunctious little one.

With my baby girl, I was so excited and anxious to see her I had planned out everything in detail for her, clothes, nursery theme, none of which I thought much about with my son.

With Brady, whose mere existence caught me by surprise I feel so different. Anxious yet in a new way, I’m more prepared more aware and therefore more reflective and introspective. This is after all in my plans the last time I’ll ever experience this. I do not plan to birth anymore children. After all this one took me by surprise. I believe that God has something planned, bigger than my plans for this child, because it was HIS plan. And, his plan are always greater than ours.

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I have so much to say I honestly don’t know where to begin. I’m sure this little update on my family will turn into a series of blog posts since I tend to be long winded.  I am amazed at how I feel today. First day home alone with a new baby, a 16 month old and a 4 year old nad I’m actually not freaking out, I have had a shower and the kids have been bathed, I have actually checked email, eaten and am now blogging, but the best part….. I squeezed into my favorite pre-pregnancy Old Navy Flirt jeans!!! I am rockin’ , but no seriously I am blessed. I fully expected to be a blithering bundle of nerves hiding under the bed by the time my husband arrived here at 4:30 pm today, however it is 2pm and I am sooooo happy and feeling soooo blessed.

Readers of my blog, let me tell you what I am attributing this to.  The power of prayer.  It’s funny, the other morning, in fact the first morning I woke up in  my own bed after spending days at the hospital God put a quote in my mind.  Where else would it have come from? I’ve never read this anywhere that I recall, though for the purpose of not plagarizing I won’t say it is 100% original.  But the quote was

“I do not believe in the power of despair, but I do believe in the power of prayer.”

I didnt’ know at the time what that meant or why I had just all of a sudden had it put into  my mind, but now I do.  God put it there and I prayed that I’d be able to handle all this.  Now, sitting here I feel as though I can. I know I can because PRAYER WORKS and even if I’m the only one praying for me, which I know isnt’ the case, I will NOT despair.

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Wow, It’s time to do this again?? I completely forgot until someone linked here saying they got the idea of a “weekend” recap from me.  EEKKK!!

Anyway, this week honestly has been quite the “blur”.  I started out the week in hopes of having baby #3 quickly. However, as I sit here with him still “baking” as some say, you can tell that didn’t happen.  Hopefully tomorrow is the ever fateful day.  I am going to the doctor at 10 am on Monday, pray he puts me in for induction.

So, recapping this week. Monday was the doctor’s appointment. I had dilated but since then nothing.  Tuesday and Wednesday my mom and grandmother came over to help out with the kids and house. Praise God that was a blessing.  Thursday I had to go it alone, and Friday Greg ended up off because his state car went capoot.  We went out to lunch and out for supper, yay no cooking and had a good time spending time together.

I made mammoth to do lists this week in an effort to “stay busy”, which I pretty much did working online on my websites and installing two Wordpress blogs and doing customizations for two clients.  This is sort of one of those “hobbies” I get paid to do.  I know it’s not something I really have “time” for, but it’s relaxing and fun to me, I know I’m wierd, a nerd, go read yesterday’s post you’ll understand why I say that.  But seriously, I learned Wordpress over time and I have come to love tweaking and playing with it.  Fortunately for me there are people out there who hate doing this sort of thing but want a website or blog set up so they pay me.  Win-win!

So, between all that and doing ministry related stuff, I booked a speaking engagement this week and worked out the details on that, I’ll be in Senatobia, MS speaking to Moms and daughters at First United Methodist Church on Saturday, August 23.  Excited! I have stayed busy this week, ever so impatiently waiting for baby Brady to make his arrival.  I am beyond ready and hope upon hope tomorrow is the BIG day!

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As I am ever so impatiently awaiting the arrival of my third child, yesterday I posted a picture of myself and my 2nd child, Lily.  I think I confused some newcomers to the blog who thought this was a “new” baby, but no she will actually be 16 months on Wednesday.

Hopefully by then we will have another picture, this time of the new baby, a boy who is due on Monday, July 14.  Let’s hope he makes it here on or before that date and no later.  Thanks for the congrats anyway.

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