Well I should have posted this a month ago...

I had Ken take this when I was 6 months pregnant (10/28) when I was 27 weeks pregnant. I am now 31 weeks pregnant and I should have him take another picture. My belly had fully popped out and others (who live far away) were curious how I looked.

I am really looking forward to this little one's arrival. I have tormented Ken with my endless nesting and preparing. I think I have it all together now. I don't have a nursing chair yet but they are so expensive I may just use the couch.

Ken got a job with a neighboring county and we have loved the stability of the employment. It is less money that he made before and that has been a real challenge for us to adjust to. We are still trying to make it work. Through it all our Heavenly Father has shown us what to do. It seems that we gained the stability of having a job but lost the stability I felt in paying for all the things we need. I just traded one tight rope for another. We felt like this was the job for him so we took a leap of faith. We have yet to see how it will all work out. For now, I pray and wait.

I am trying hypnosis for my birth preparation. I have a home study class that I am taking and I listen to a CD track every day for a half an hour and another one at night when I am going to bed. I want a different experience than I had with my first child's birth. I would rather be in control of how things go at the hospital and I am learning that some of the things I did not like last time could have been avoided. I come more prepared this time - watch out nurse, if we don't see eye to eye, I will fire you.

Thanksgiving is over now and I just have a few last minute gifts to get from the store. One of our children has proclaimed hate for things that we thought they would love. We have to return and re-buy for that one. We found our tree on the 27th and it is in the garage soaking in a bucket. We plan to put it up for Family Night on Monday.

We had several family things this week and have something almost every night next week. The weeks really pass quickly when we are so busy. I have some holiday baking and candy making planned. I usually make dresses for the girls for Christmas but I don't know if I can do that this year. I have a few sewing projects between the baby and Christmas presents so the dresses might not happen. They do not need them anyway, we have well stocked closets.

We were the recipients of others generosity this week and Kayla (who needed new clothes) got just what she needed. We are grateful of others kindness that heed the promptings of the spirit to help is in ways we did not know to ask.