My other highschool moms Mrs. Anderson!
and Mrs. Terhune! 
Henna Belly Fun
Mandy's artistic designs...how amazing are you!??!!!
I started to feel very unprepared and not ready for everything when I returned home from Orlando. I felt like the past six month went by in a flash. Just when I started to have my third trimester freak out, I walked into "showers" of love and support from family and friends. God is so good! What perfect timing!
We spent New Years Eve in D.C. eating a deluxe meal and toasting at home with RBz. I slept for one hour and then woke up to fly first class to Chicago and bask in the great feeling of being "home." Nana picked me up in Chicago so I didn't have to take the bus. Yea! We stopped at the outlets and got some maternity shirts, sweatpants, and sweatshirts.
Then, I walked in the door to what I was told was going to be a "circus shower." TTTTTTTTAAAAddddddAAAAAAAAAAA! Instead, I found myself in the middle of an India shangrala paradise! Nana went nutz! She gave me a shower I will never forget! We walked around the house talking looking at everything she has been doing for the past few months. There was no way I could sleep...too "cited!," as your cousin Hailey used to say. We talked and ate admiring all the lanterns, ornaments, beads, henna, fabrics, handmade pillows, food, candles, bracelets, and handmade baby items Nana had been preparing. VuVu got to see my belly for the first time and said, "so little?!!!" a comment I would hear from everyone who saw me. (Don't worry love, I think you're perfectly fabulously H-U-G-E!)
I slept in my princess bed, next to my princess closet, in my princess room, with my princess bathroom and realized why your Dad wants a giant house in the future. It feels pretty nice sometimes! Ahhh! I got my hair done and recieved a mani and pedi while listening to meditation music on my new IPOD that your Daddy got me and really started to feel like a princess. Now this is what pregnancy is all about! I'll take four please! Angels just like you of course!
The shower was wonderfully fun and exotic. I got to see people I hadn't seen in years. It was so nice to see everyone, hug everyone, hear advice and baby stories, and really feel blessed and supported through this process.
Mom had kept most of the shower a surprise so I kept on getting surprised throughout it. I recieved several baby books as presents (a nursery library is so important to me! I just adore children's literature and I hope you will too!) and found out that it was a "book shower" where everyone brings a book along for the new baby. I had to read all of them before I could pack them up. How many times have I sat in aisles reading kids books my eyes welling up thinking about being a mom and what a privledge it is and now I get to read them to you! I can't wait!
I love everyone so much...thank you for all coming out & sharing in the incredible time with us!!!
1 comment:
The shower sounds like it was sooooooo perfect for you! :o) I am so glad. I wish Kayla and I could have gone, but tickets were super expensive. Looks like you had tons of fun though!
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