Here we are again. Another week has past, and sweet Pippa is growing strong. She is certainly making herself know to on lookers, which means my days in non-maternity clothes are coming to an end. Anyone have any they want to loan a sister?! ha!
I really have been struggling with being excited at all for this baby/pregnancy lately. It could be the lack of sleep, sick kids, or feeling fat, but man my joy is not there. Even Sam struggles with it, so it’s hard for me to “fake it” all the time. I DO want to be excited, but it’s just not there yet. I had hoped Sam and I going to the ultrasound this week would really spark our joy, but I ended up going by myself and Sam had to stay at home with the sick kids. At my appointment the tech just rushed through everything, the pictures were hard to make out (even for this experienced mom), and I left there in tears. I’m just feeling like all of this sucks (not the baby, just the lack of excitement). Believe me, I WANT to be excited, to enjoy it all, but I’m current indifferent. Isn’t that bad!?
Man this week has been rough! After a fun and busy weekend, our week started off with sick kids…and that theme has continued straight through. Ugh. Wednesday night I was up the entire night with Titus and Penelope, and honestly dreaded the day when Thursday morning came. “Suffering” through the day with sick kids is one thing, but when that rolls over into your sleep time. Woah baby…you will go crazy! As Penelope struggled to fall asleep on my lap that morning I sent out this tweet and picture.
And I kid you not within 30mins I had a friend text me and ask to bring over lunch and Starbucks. I literally began to cry. I was so overwhelmed by her thoughtfulness. But it didn’t stop there. In the serious of an hour I had that friend show up with lunch, dinner, and Starbucks; another stop by and drop off some groceries, and then another brought dinner as well. I was shocked. How did this happen? I never expected anything like this at all, but man did the water works start flowing. I stopped and called Sam to tell him what had happened, and I said, “I thought today was going to be one of the worst days ever, but God had other plans.” All I can say is that we are truly blessed with great friends who go out of their way to bless us. Thankfully last night we headed to bed early and slept the entire night without interruption. Hallelujah! We are still down one sick kid, but I’ll take that! And so celebrate I even showered for the first time in three days. We are all thankful for that!
Have you ever had a friend(s) do something that just blessed your socks off? What was it?
So beautiful!!