Getting Aprehensive

I'm beginning to get apprehensive about labor as the inevitable date approaches. Today in church while singing "How Great Thou Art" the phrase "That on the cross, my burden gladly bearing, He bled and died to take away my sin." things began to come into perspective. If Christ can handle being beaten and hanging on the cross then I should be able to handle the labor pains.

As I thought about the subject more I also realized the pain and agony that occured when God turned his back on his son. This act was far more painful than any of the physical pain he was experiencing. God has promised his children "I will never leave you, nor forsake you". Because God keeps his promises, every one of them, I don't have to experience the abandonment Christ felt. I can walk into this phase of my life knowing the Lord will be with me every step of the way.

Another avenue of reasoning began to develop- how difficult was it for God, righteous and sin free, to see his son take on the sins of the world. I can only imagine how difficult the act of rejecting your child would be, let alone adding the whole spiritual aspect into the mix.

Prego Friends

We were able to get together with a few friends from College on Memorial Day. We're all pregnant (all the ladies) and due within one month of each other.

Baby Shinabery plays Softball

We had a little bit of excitement on Thursday night at James' softball game- I caught a ball in the stomach. It was a lot of things gone wrong: a bad throw, a missed catch, and sitting behind the first base man. There is a paramedic on James' team and another fan is a nurse in the OB department at the hospital I'm delivering at. They both checked me out pretty well, the baby was moving, no bleeding or leaking of fluids, and I was not having any contractions. After the game however we figured we'd play it safe and go to the hospital to get checked out. Since it was a pretty hard hit, and I was having minimal contractions (no worse than I had been having prior to getting hit) they decided it would be best to stay so they could monitor me overnight. The night was very uneventful and we had an ultrasound in the morning which showed everything to be fine. I have my regular check up on Tuesday morning so they'll be sure to go over everything very well.

The whole thing worked out well actually, James and I both really needed to sit and relax for a while, but there have been so many things that needed to be done around the house. This whole thing forced us to take a time out, and the long weekend ahead gives us a little extra time to do that.

Don't strain your eyes too hard when looking at the picture below. We've removed the letters from the blocks. We're down to two names, both of which have the same amount of letters. We thought you may enjoy a little bit more information.

The Old House

So many people are going through very difficult times right now. Things hit home a little today when I was told our old house (our first house) went back to the bank last month. This is effecting me in ways I don't really understand. When we purchased the home, from the bank, it stank like stale urine from the 3 dogs that were living there (oh yeah, and the 3 adults & 2 kids) all in a 1000 SF home. The pipes were burst, and we bombed the house several times to get rid of all the spiders. We completely gutted the 1900's house, shored it up and gave it a new lease on life. New roof, kitchen, carpet, drywall, paint, insulation, appliances and the list goes on. Here are some pictures of our little bungalow. I'm really glad I dug up those Iris & Hosta plants now!!

Nursery Border

So here's the pictures of the infamous nursery border as promised. I suppose it's kinda nice-you can't actually see the flaws in the picture. You can't see the dots very well, but they are the same tan & yellow as the walls and green.

On Saturday we set up the crib, which was also pretty frustrating. I set it up while James was at work, which ended up being just fine until I put the drop side in. The side didn't want to stay up. It would latch on the one side, but not the other. James came home and saw the problem soon after looking at it. We disassembled a few parts, put it back together, and it's working just fine now.