Where Has the Time Gone?

I got off the phone with Sean today and realized that Baby Marks is fast approaching his debut into the world!!! And only 17 days left untl Sean come home! It just seems like yesterday we got married and started our life together even though it has been literally miles and miles apart (for now!). Since my last blog, many things have changed. I have been slowly making my transition into motherhood with various experciences, typical worries and anxieties and of course those of you that know me well- prepartion! I had two rounds of wonderful baby showers- one in San Diego and a virtual one in NJ where I got to see family and friends. Both were great and really got me into an excited but nervous mood about labor and after labor. I am sure a year from now I will be repeating, "I can't believe how old the baby is!" but for now I am trying to imagine life with the baby. I have put my focus this week on balancing my life so that I am a great mother who is very happy. My first priority is my family and my faith and then everything else follows. I am looking forward to the little things in life that I had once just walked by and ignored. For instance, spending time on a blanket with the baby just looking at the trees and the sky, spending the day at the beach with the baby and Sean. I cannot wait to go to the lake cottage in Michigan and watch them both on the dock fishing. I cannot wait to have the little guy jump onto both of us at 6am on a sunday morning to wake us up. Instead of shooing him away I see both of us grabbing him and having an informal playful WWF match in the mountains of pillows and sheets...I cannot wait to hear his laugh, see his face and just sit and stare at his toes and little fingers for hours on end. Baby is going to teach me much more about life than I ever thought- he will reintroduce me to it!

6 Months Down, 3 Months to Go!

So I have made it 6 months into being pregnant and there are alot of things I am experiencing along the way. The most sacred is late at night or early in the morning. I will lay in bed or slowly wake up to Baby Marks kicking me telling me to get up. "Mom," I can hear him saying in there, "Get up, Now! Baby is hungry!" And that he is after gaining 23 pounds in 6 months! I have found myself changing my diet to better my energy levels and make Baby Marks much more happier and he has responded very well and so has my energy....it's funny, everyone asks how I am feeling. I reflect back on the past 6 months and I have dodged morning sickness, I don't have weird cravings, and I have stayed in fairly great shape for a normal person riding out my former athletic body but there is one thing I did notice......one small thing....not sure if I have always been this way or the pregnancy magnifies it, but being 6 months pregnant and 23 pounds front heavy I have noticed...that I am now extremely clumsy!



I guess it happened 2 weeks ago. I was cooking company some hamburgers and was walking around the pool. I happened to step right through a plastic cover for the pool filter and well you can see the damage in this picture....afterwards I found it pretty funny but of course I freaked out and decided to get no topical pain killers to be the best mom ever. I endured the stitches and blocked out the pain (precursor for labor perhaps?). 1 week later I needed to treat myself and so I rode my bike over to the nail salon. After elongating the ride to a full hour around town I wheeled it into the salon exhausted and everyone turned at my grand entrance...I knocked down their Buddha shrine with the bike! After apologizing and trying to fix their bowls of sacred water and oranges I did a quick 'in the name of the father, son and holy spirit' and then couldn't help myself. I burst into laughter right along with the nail technicians....after all a pregnant lady busting into a nail salon with a bike knocking over a Buddha shrine is not something you see everyday!