Reasons My Husband is Awesome: Pregnancy Edition

Being pregnant is tough work, you guys! DUH Seriously, this little baby is sucking the life out of me this week! {{He or she is so worth it, though!!! *smiles*}} Thankfully, I finished my last paper of the semester today, and I have the whole summer (well, after work!) to rest, relax, and grow this belly!

The beach I would be going to every day this summer if I didn't have to work everyday! #grownupproblems

Anyway, my poor husband has been putting up with miserable cranky pain-in-the-butt whiney me so well these past two months. To all you single mamas out there, or those who could not be with your significant other during pregnancy, I give you so much credit - because personally, I don't know how I'd be surviving right now without my husband!

{{Side note: today I'm feeling inspired by Marquis' post, My Husband is Awesome... Even When He's Not! Check out her blog!!! }}

Reasons my Husband is Awesome: Pregnancy Edition

* He brings me water and toast every morning in bed in efforts to circumvent my morning sickness complaints 

* He puts up with the preggo monster my hormonal mood swings

* He ignores or pretends to ignore the fact that I eat all the food in the house

* He doesn't yell at me when I carelessly spend the money for the electric and gas bills at the maternity store

* He doesn't make fun of me when I have to return said clothes to the maternity store in order to pay said electric and gas bills

* When I worry about the baby's health, he calms me down

* He supports my decision that leggings are in fact, business casual, when the baby belly bloat makes my work pants too small

* He doesn't think it's silly that I'm writing a journal for the baby

* He takes five minutes out of watching the game to see my nursery ideas on Pinterest

* He tells me how great it's going to be when the baby is born and I can do "mom things" with my "mom friends"

* He comes to my doctors appointments even though he's scared of the tools they use in there!

I love you, my awesome hubs! Can't wait to see you to take care of baby as well as you take care of me!

December 6, 2013

"For this child I prayed (and prayed and prayed and prayed), and the Lord has granted me my petition which I asked of Him."

* 1 Samuel 1:27 *

I'm SO EXCITED to announce that hubs & I are expecting our first child on December 6!

Baby at 7 weeks 3 days old!

Today marks the 9th week of pregnancy and yes, I'm feeling tired and nauseous but YES!, it is SO worth it! 

We found out on March 29 - I had a hunch that "this might be the month!" so I took a test the absolute first day I felt like the results would be legit! Hubs was on the phone with his mom at the time - and as soon as I saw the "PREGNANT" I bolted into the bedroom and whisper-screamed "GET OFF THE PHONE AND COME HERE!!!" He came into the bathroom to find me on the floor crying tears of happiness :)

I'm so excited to enter this next phase of our lives! God has surely blessed us so far in the relatively short time we've been married! 

The "It Factor"

I've known Gail for almost my whole life, and I have never heard anyone speak a bad word about her. After all, what bad is there to say? Gail has this way of making each person she comes in contact with feel special - I believe she accomplishes this so easily because she truly cares about each and every person she becomes acquainted with. She just has that "it factor" - the quality we all aspire for - that makes it easy to put her on a pedestal. Gail is the picture of joy, strength, and most importantly, trusting God through trials and tribulations.

Photo by Jacqueline Leigh Photography

(Also, she's beautiful, right?!)

Jesus himself identified this "it factor" in Luke 11:33-36 (NKJV) when he explained, “no one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a secret place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, that those who come in may see the light...Therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness. If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, the whole body will be full of light, as when the bright shining of a lamp gives you light.”

The enemy tries to steal our light every day. Sometimes, things get so bad that {{forget the light switch}} Satan tries to blow the entire fuse box! Gail learned about Satan's thieving ways better than anyone when she endured the tragic loss of her son a few years ago. However, the light of God - the "it factor" within Gail - still radiates from:

every word she speaks

hug she offers

and smile she passes on from across the row.

Jesus's love is contagious, when you come into contact with Gail, it's impossible not to catch it! 

Let's all aspire to be like Gail this weekend, and let the "it factor" - the light of Christ - shine through us to inspire the people around us!