Thankful Thursday!

Phew! Thankful Thursday is today and I have a long list of things to be thankful for that I wanted to mention. Of course I have to start with the most obvious one to me - Today is my due date! I have made it to the end of the pregnancy and now every day I spend pregnant feels like I'm pushing the envelope just a little more. Despite the incoherent thoughts I sometimes have about maybe being pregnant forever, it feels like nothing can stop me now. Labor and birth are the most special and precious moments I have had in this life so far. It is the beginning of what "makes it all worth it." My most favorite daydream right now is holding my baby (with a head of dark hair- a girl can dream right?) tightly against my chest listening to the contented gulp gulping of him/her nursing and watching the drunken ecstasy in their eyes as they roll back and forth into their head enjoying nature's milkshake. I love that feeling- I always feel like such a good cook whenever my babies have nursed to a contented slumber with sloshy milk bellies.

My sister comes in town tonight to be at the birth - what a relief that will be to have her here. I didn't want to have the baby before she got here and now that she is on her way I am smugly smiling at every little contraction I have today instead of thinking to myself - woowah Nelly!

I am so thankful for the long beautiful weekend I spent with my family this past holiday. We got so many things done around the house that were on my to do list of things that needed to be done before the baby came - and some things I didn't realize I wanted done. It was fun to pull out newborn clothes in either gender and remember how cute our kids looked in them. It made us intensely desirous to know what we were having. For the first time in the pregnancy it was horrible not knowing. We got to spend loads of time doing things games and activities as a family and we even had a small turkey dinner on Thanksgiving day.

I am thankful we put up our Christmas decorations inside. Why is it that once you put up a Christmas tree in your house, the spirit of this season just fills the room? Its our first Christmas at this house (last year we were in CO) and our first Christmas to have a fireplace to put the stockings up on. The picture is dark because we wanted to show the warm glow our room has now.

I am thankful we got the time to put up Christmas lights on the house. I love the Christmas season more than any other season and its fun to see lights on our house.
I am thankful for the funny things my kids have said recently. I have to blog about them or Ill forget them and then I wont have that record to laugh at years later. Lyman was saying the breakfast prayers last week and said "please bless the baby in Mommy's tummy to be healthy and to not look weird when it comes out." I was biting my lip to keep from laughing out loud for that one. My kids are so funny and I just love hearing their minds work through things.

Happy Thankful Thursday people!