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The Finish Line

Posted in Me, Motherhood, Pregnancy on April 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »

My mom was consistent from the very beginning.  She said that “you can count on only one thing: it won’t go the way you plan it.”  She was talking about my delivery and she was right: it didn’t go the way I planned.  I knew the risk of having a cesarean was higher with an [...]

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Reflecting on my pregnancy

Posted in Me, Pregnancy on January 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I LOVE: My Stretchmarks
I feel like they are so symbolic of this beautiful thing I get to do.  They are the marks of my son.  They are the battlescars of pregnancy.  I will wear them like badges of honor because I am a woman and I have been given the gift of creating life.

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He Must Really Love Me

Posted in Marriage, Me, Pregnancy on August 21, 2008 | 5 Comments »

With my first trimester coming to a close, I am finally starting to feel grounded again after this pregnancy knocked me off my socks.  I definitely got off to a rocky start with all of the unpleasant symptoms of maternity.  But if you didn’t know that I was sick so often that I lost weight [...]

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Help This Precious Child

Posted in Me, Pregnancy, Religion on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Train up a child in the way he should go,
Even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6 NASB
Dear God, I thank You for the gift of this child to raise,
this life to share, this mind to help mold,
this body to nurture, and this spirit to enrich.
Let me never betray this child’s [...]

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Road Rage

Posted in Me, Pregnancy on July 16, 2008 | 6 Comments »

I wasn’t quite prepared for this pregnancy.  Ryan and I had vowed to have one year of marriage before even bringing up the topic of children.  People asked us all the time, of course, “when are you guys gonna have a baby?”  We always shooed them away, bragging about our one year vow.  Our one [...]

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