I honestly feel like I was just announcing I was pregnant! Where does the time go? It has really flown by and I can’t believe that in mere weeks we will be a family of 5. I just wanted to offer you a quick update on our life as we prepare for this joyous event.
Our flight back was the last time I could fly. I am officially stationary the rest of my pregnancy. My mother-in-law will be flying in a few days before my due date so that my husband and I can hopefully have a weekend away before the baby comes. We are really hoping that baby stays! Of course, as many of you know babies have a mind of their own so we will see what happens. We won’t be booking any hotels till that morning. My husband and I have never spent a night together apart from our kids. That is kind of crazy, right? It is very difficult to accomplish without family nearby.
We have decided not to sell our house (for now). Honestly, it felt like too much change at one time. As many of you know selling and moving are a lot of work and accomplishing this while pregnant felt like too much. Also, my husband’s office isn’t moving untill next year. Wells’ loves his preschool and to continue on there and not have to find a new one was such a stress relief. He will get another year with his best friend. We will see what happens in the future but right now I feel content with the decision. I am making it more of my goal to just take life day by day. It is so much less stressful!
How am I doing with pregnancy? This pregnancy is a lot harder than the last two. I thought this would get easier! It is so drastically different and my body is not handling well how close together these two pregnancies are. Isla and her sister will be 20 months apart! I am in a lot of pain physically and not able to be as active as I like to. I am trying to free myself of that mom guilt of not being able to do as much with the kids. It is so easy to feel that guilt but sometimes you have to accept the limitations of your body. I go to my physical therapist about once a week and my husband is great about helping me with my exercises. I just keep telling myself that it will all be worth it and I will of course forget about all this pain. It always happens, otherwise how would I be on my third kid?!
This is what is currently is going on in our lives. Also, I’m trying to figure out summer camps for Wellington and my friend is throwing me a shower in a few weeks. I am happy to get together with all the amazing moms I know. Being surrounded by exemplar moms makes all the difference in my life. I hope you all have a group of women to encourage you and the bonus is sometimes their kids turn into your children’s best friends!
Are you pregnant? How is yours going? I would love to hear all about when your baby is due and how you are handling pregnancy! Please email or comment below. We can get through this together!