Full Term!!

Yesterday I reached Full-Term!

So exciting...now I can experience those last few days/weeks of waiting and waiting...just wondering when labor will start. I'm not always very patient about it, but I do try to just enjoy each day that comes...especially when it is a beautiful sunny day like today.

I recently read an awesome book called "Stepping Heavenward" by Elizabeth Prentiss. She wrote this in the lat 1800's and man did women have a much harder life back then! Her main theme is that suffering can draw you closer to God and you can experience peace when you submit to God's will for your life. Here is a precious excerpt from the main character after she found out about her 4th pregnancy and someone remarked how much harder her life would be:


"Well, This is one side of the story, to be sure, but I look at the other. Here is a sweet, fragrant mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul to train for God; and the body in which it dwells is worthy all it will cost, since it is the abode of a kingly tenant. I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all, to whom, while I minister in Christ's name, I make a willing sacrifice of what little leisure for my own recreation my other darlings had left me. Yes, my precious baby, you are welcome to your mother's heart, welcome to her time, her strength, her health, her tenderst cares, to her lifelong prayers! Oh, how rich I am, how truly, how wondrously blest!"