Music Monday -You're Gonna Miss This

As of today, Monday, May 20th...I am 39 weeks, 6 days pregnant! Tomorrow I will be FULL Full term! 40 weeks and it will be my estimated due date! Hopefully it won't come and go, but it probably will! 

Either way, I heard this song the other day and it made me think about these last few weeks and days of pregnancy.

You're Gonna Miss This

By Trace Adkins

Don't get me wrong...I CANNOT WAIT until my baby boy is here and I am holding him in my arms, but pregnancy has honestly flown by! And from what I am told, it only goes faster once they are here. 

I remember being that girl in high school just wanting to be done and get to college. Then just wanting to be done with college and start adult life and get married and start a family. At the time it felt like those things would never happen and time was dragging by. 

Now, as I think about where I am, time really flew!! Especially from graduating college to meeting my husband, getting married and starting a family! I was just talking with hubby yesterday about how I have lived my life with this life that we have as my goal. What do I do now that I've reached it?? I keep trying to think of what my new goal should be. Where do I want to be in 5 years, 10 years? 

I'm realizing now that maybe its time to step back from accomplishments. I've lived my life striving to obtain and accomplish things and I've been successful. But did I ever really slow down and just soak in and enjoy the blessing of each season? Maybe a little, but not enough. I miss those seasons. 

I love my life and feel so blessed to be where I am today. But I don't want to wish this away to get to the next thing. I want to learn to soak it in and just ENJOY! 

In just a few short days (a week or so at the most) and our baby boy will enter this world and our lives will forever change. He will never again be in my tummy where I can fully protect him and feel his every move. It will be a long awaited blessing and a fun change...but it will be different and I will miss pregnancy (at least that's what I'm told...right now it's hard to imagine :) ) 

So today I'm enjoy THIS season. I'm not going to rush it. God's timing is perfect and we will get to meet Christian on the day that God has already planned! 

What season are you in and what are you doing to enjoy it and not rush it by? 

 

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Music Monday - Daddy Songs!

As May 21st gets closer and closer, I can't help but be reminded by how wonderful of a daddy my hubby is going to be for our sweet little boy, Christian! 

Hubby helps with the children's ministry programming at our church, Hosanna! Usually he teaches the 4 and 5 year olds (preschoolers), but yesterday he got to help in the nursery instead! He always comes home with such cute stories about his interactions with the kids and this week was no different. 

His love for the kids is great and he always makes sure to have fun interactions with all of them! 

Whenever I hear Rodney Atkins' "Watching You" I think of how kids, especially boys, watch their dads and want to be like them...I can rest easy knowing that my hubby is going to be a great example for Christian and I hope he grows up to be "just like him!" 

 

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Music Monday

After sharing some songs last week, I've decided to start a 'Music Monday' post! Check back every Monday for an inspirational song. 

Check out this oldie, but goodie! It was my theme song my senior year of college in 2009. 

Robbie Seay Band - Song of Hope 

I was really involved in a Christian Organization called 'Intervarsity Christian Fellowship' during college. The semester that I graduated, I was recognized at a Large Group gathering along with all of the other graduating seniors. We all got to pick our favorite worship song to be played during the worship time. This was the song I picked. 

Just a few weeks ago, it was my prayer that God would make himself known to me and how he has been present in my life. 

I help with the high school youth group at my church called Catalyst. It was during the worship time at Catalyst a few weeks ago that this song was played. It's not exactly one of the 'regulars' and I haven't heard it since! 

It was such a great reminder to me that during my time of hopelessness as I was graduating and entering the real world  and my plans weren't playing out as expected, that God was near me and at work. He came down and put the desires of my heart into a plan, but in His timing and it was perfect. 

I had always thought that I would graduate and get married and start a family right away. I just wanted to be a wife and a mom. But God had other plans for me. He had some work to do in my and my future hubby before we were ready for each other. 

About 2 years after I graduated, I met my future husband. He had moved to Minnesota from New York and I had moved to Minnesota from Wisconsin. We both had gone through a lot of refining and were ready for each other. God had come done and had been with me through all of that...through every season and is with me now. 

Such an encouraging thought for me this week as I think about all that is to come for our little family! 

I know God is with you this week too! What are you trusting Him for? 

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