Dr.'s Visit

I felt Deborah kick for the first time last Sunday (January 31) We were in church and I was getting all baptisity as Ryan likes to call it (worshiping) and she just joined right in, kicking several times. It was the coolest sensation ever. Now it's fun because she'll go after it for a while and stop, go after it for a while and stop. But it's nice to know I don't have to wait for the doctor's visit to feel her and know she's in there.

I am almost in my third trimester so last Tuesday was my monthly check up at my OBGYN's office. I have high blood pressure. I am doing what she told me to do, exercise and watch my eating but it still hasn't gone down. One of my coworkers let me borrow her blood pressure machine so I have been taking it on my own at home to see if there is a pattern or something that makes sense. So far nothing. Please pray that it will go down. I have been walking at lunch and am tracking points on WW. Also, I'm trying to rest better and not go all the time. But let me just say when you're trying to move into a new house and are having a baby that is just plain hard!

Onto the house, Ryan and I went out and looked at it yesterday and wow, we now have grass and a tree and shrubs in our front yard and our back yard has grass in it. They basically have one more week of work on it, which would be putting the carpet in, cleaning, touching up paint and then it's ready to go!!! I'm so excited. Ryan scheduled the movers so it's real. Rounding that corner yesterday was so cool....it felt like we were driving home!

We also went to a parent conference yesterday at our church. It was such a good time of learning and reminders. It also helped me relax a little because they talked about parenting with intentionality, which made me feel more at peace. Normally I am a very intentional person, however, with a baby I wasn't sure how to be intentional about parenting because I have no idea what I'm doing. However, they gave some really good pointers as far as the spiritual training of the child and emphasized that it is the parent/families primary role to train a child spiritually which I really appreciated. My parents did that for us and I feel like I have benefited greatly from that training and it is also some of the best memories that I have as a child. We also were reminded how important it is to establish a good marriage as children develop a perception of marriage and relationships at an early age from their parents and that perception doesn't normally change much as they get older.