I’m 21 weeks along tomorrow! I haven’t posted in a few days, but as I’ve said before, not for lack of stuff to write about. Things have just been busy. We had a level 2 Sonogram on April 14th and not only did we not find out if we’re having a boy or girl (the umbilical cord was right between the legs all up in the way), the doctor said that she saw a “bright spot” on the baby’s heart. She said not to worry about it right now, that these things usually turn out to be nothing. My question is, what mother to be, especially when it’s their first baby, is not going to worry when something is found? I fully believe that God is in control and that He’ll take care of my baby, but when you hear something like that, even if just for a moment, you’re worried about the baby. We have another sonogram scheduled for May 12th, so hopefully we’ll get to see little boy or girl parts, and find that nothing is wrong with the baby. They said that these “bright spots” in no way indicate any type of heart defect, but can be a soft marker for something else. So we wait ’til May 12th.
The baby is definately active. There was constant movement during the sonogram. So much so, that the technician had trouble getting all the pictures that she was wanting. I told Josh that it’s so weird to see that much movement on the screen and not feel hardly any of it. I’m starting to feel more, and definately rounding out. My waist has almost disappeared. I didn’t have any morning sickness during the 1st trimester, but have had several nauseous mornings during the 2nd. I had some round ligament pain for the first few of weeks of my 2nd trimester, but that has almost resolved now. I’m enjoying the changes my body is going through, and very excited to start feeling more movement. I also got a cradle for the baby a couple of weekends ago. It’s so pretty! It has a cherry finish and I love it. I got it at a garage sale. My sweet mother-in-law found it and told my husband to tell me about it. I went after work that day and it was still there. I called Josh & he came over to look at it, and told me if it’s what I wanted, I could have it. So it sits in our house, waiting to rock our sweet little wonder to sleep.
We are still working on getting our house in Genoa. We have submitted the floor plan and credit application to the mobile home people so they can get us an estimate on the triple-wide that we’re wanting to build. Our salesguy was very impressed with the detail on the floorplan, and that felt good. I worked hard on it. I did learn a few things from my dad. We have run into a snag on the land, but hopefully it will be resolved soon. The land we had previously picked out was being surveyed and we were just waiting for a call from the owner to let us know the outcome. We have left several messages checking the status of the survey, and no one will call us back. We had noticed the other day when we were driving by the land, that a mobile home has been moved onto part of the land. It’s quite a way from where we were wanting to build, but we’re wondering if the owner sold all the land to someone & just hasn’t told us. Now we’re looking for other land to consider.
Josh and I will be joining forces with some friends of ours and starting a church next week. We will start off going out to different churches to minister in praise and worship throughout the summer. We will be meeting (when we’re not ministering in another church) in one of the couples’ home at first. We are very excited about this new adventure. Things are moving right along at break-neck speed for us, and we are so enjoying the ride. I will try to start posting more often, but I make no promises.
