I feel this week like we are 'connecting'. I know how she likes to fall asleep. I know most times what she wants when she cries. She's getting into a routine. She smiled at me the other day when I was fussing at her! She's been so sweet the past week and I am really enjoying her!
I have a devotional book I read that someone gave to me with one of my other pregnacies. It's called, "The Hand that rocks the Cradle." I am really liking each devotional and so many times it is exactly what I am dealing with that day. Yesterday, I read this ...
EXCHANGES - "Some exchanges are obvious. I've exchanged my elegant black purse for a suitcase-sized bag bulging with neccessities. I've traded a girlish figure for a matronly one with the stomach of a Shar-pei. I've exchanged my love-to-curl-up-with-a-good-book reading for Thomas the Tank Engine and Peter Rabbit. But the invisiable exchanges are far more priceless. I'm exchanging time spent on myself for time invested with my never-dying babies soul. I'm exchanging dreams of a career for the most worthwhile and precious one God gives - motherhood!" Dianna Overholt
Typiclly, I am one that does not really like changes! I would love for my little world to always stay the same. (I praise God for this though, because that must mean I have a great life! Not perfect. Not without trials. But great!) A baby defiantly brings on a BIG change into life! Change for an independant mom that has a 9 & 5 year old that can do most things without me right beside them. We were ready though for a baby. We prayed for this baby! But when I am getting up during the night to feed baby, it's not always easy. The past few nights she's only been up once through the night and I praise the Lord for that!
I made my own baby annoucement card ...
... 5 WEEKS OLD ...
