Newness

My new thing is watching the baby move. If I lie back at the right moment, we are treated to a display of bulges and ripples and bumps. I spent hours last weekend doing just that. It's awesome.

And yesterday I had a new feeling, a sort of longing, a tingling in my
arms... hard to put it into words, but I was feeling like... I can't wait to meet this baby, to hold it and care for it and be it's mom! We're not ready yet by any stretch, still in the process of putting the furniture together, sorting through hand-me-down clothes and toys, adding to our registries, decorating the baby's room. We still have to sign up for and attend birth classes and figure out how and where we will actually be meeting this baby.

Suddenly I am starting to feel ready though, really ready for all the challenges and change, like any anxiety I had over the impending addition to our family suddenly melted away in one cathartic, reassuring tingly feeling. It will be okay. It will be more than okay, it will be great! Three more months suddenly seems like a long time to wait!