34 Weeks and Knitting

It has been a while since my last post, so I thought I would take a moment this afternoon to give everyone an update. Everything is going well with Lucy, and I am still feeling good with little to no swelling or backaches. I'm just tired constantly, mostly because my nightly routine involves me falling asleep on my right side, waking up with my right side numb and an urgent need to use the bathroom then hoisting and stumbling out of bed to the bathroom. Upon my return to bed, I give my left side a try, and if I'm not asleep within the hour, roll with great effort back to my right side and repeat the entire process every two hours. I think this is probably nature's way of getting me used to being up all night with a newborn.


And if having a 5 lb. baby wriggling around in my stomach isn't enough to keep me awake at night, the fact that Will and I had an offer on our house this week is. We are now looking at the prospect of moving in the next couple of weeks, and am not sure how the timing will work out with Lucy's arrival. We are extremely excited that our house has sold in this marketplace, but now have to wait on our bank to approve it since we are selling it for less than what we owe. To make a long story short, the bank is in control, and we won't have much notice if and when they decide to approve the sale. In the meantime, we have started packing items that we use the least in an attempt to maintain some sort of control over this and the much anticipated arrival of our daughter.


It continues to amaze Will and I to watch God's plan for our lives unfold. Believe me, if I was in charge we would have moved months ago. But God's plan is perfect, and I keep reminding myself that he doesn't want Lucy to arrive in this world homeless. This past week we signed on with a new realtor who happens to also be a friend of ours, and within hours of our condo's pictures being posted online we had a call for a family to view our house. An hour after the family viewed our house, they put in an offer for $4,000 more than we were asking for. Our realtor keeps saying that this is amazing timing, especially in this economy, and she believes that she is just an instrument for Divine Intervention. I believe she is right, and God sure did pick a sweet and oh so capable woman to help unfold his plan. For now, our prayer is that our mortgage company agrees to the sale and that we are able to coordinate a move and a new baby with grace and enough sleep to remember what is really important here - the much anticipated arrival of our baby girl Lucy.


Here's a picture of me and Lucy at 33 weeks and 6 days, taken by Will on Saturday.

And here are some pictures of the cute little things I am knitting Lucy, while my feet are propped up and she wiggles around inside of me. Does life get any better than this?