Brenda’s Pregnancy Journal

I’m still amazed that I am 26 weeks pregnant - that Elliot has (thanks to God) stuck around…and the reality of holding my little boy in my arms is getting more possible every day. WOW! My friend Steph shared with me a neat saying the other day, and I can’t remember how it went exactly, but it talked about how when God allows us to go thru trials and waiting periods for something, it makes us all the more grateful when we finally recieve the gift. Truly, the significance of holding a living child in my arms is so much greater, now that I’ve known the loss of others, and had to wait longer than I expected to have a baby.

God is so good, and it is also amazing to look back and see how He has transformed trials in my life into blessings. I got to spend time with two of those blessings on Tuesday night. I have two special friends that I wouldn’t even know, had I not dealt with PCOS and had miscarriages. They are very special women and are treasured gifts from God. It is a true reminder that when future trials come, I can more easily accept them, knowing that out of them God will bring wonderful blessings.

The weeks seem to be flying by…and I have so much to do before he arrives! We want to start working on the nursery but we have water damage from the rain & the contractor is having a hard time getting our upstairs neighbor to arrange a time for them to get into her condo to fix the problem. It’s quite frusterating & I’m not sure what we’re going to have to do to get it fixed. But once it is we’ll begin! I took some ‘before’ shots yesterday so we’ll be able to compare the transformation - I can pretend I’m on one of the home-decorating shows on TV. Except, I won’t be painting of course - Charlie will have to take care of that! :-)  Neither one of us wanted to do a big ‘theme’ but we will have some basketball stuff in there for accessories. For example, we’re going to have his name on the wall in wooden letters, and the ‘O’ will be a basketball. The practical side of us wants most things, especially expensive things, to easily convert to unisex if we were to have a girl later on & still live here.