54

Today the sun felt so rejuvenating.

It was 54 degrees during afternoon recess and we soaked up the sun on the backs of our legs.  I know to most, temperatures in the 50s are still very cold. When it's 54 degrees where my sister lives in Florida, people take cover and pull out their Ugg boots and scarves. Here in Colorado, we walk around in tank tops and capri pants and exclaim how hot it finally is outside. 

We watched our students run wild without their coats on and for the first time in a long time they weren't going to get frost bite. One of my students rejoiced so loudly, "It's WARM!! It's WARM!" as she skipped around in circles.  We even walked extra slowly back inside after the fire drill just so we could feel the warm sun on our faces for a few more seconds. 

But it's just a tease. It's supposed to snow again tomorrow.  Is it like this every year? Snow after snow after snow? Or maybe I'm just so anxious for spring to arrive that winter is taking extra long just to be mean.  

Either way, I needed today. I've filled my spirit with warm sunshine and can dream about how in a few weeks Spring will be here and the world will begin to thaw. 

She'll Be My Little Bird

I came across the song Oh My Mama a while ago...before I ever knew I would have a daughter.  It was mentioned on quite a few blogs and the moment I heard it I couldn't get it out of my head. I listened to it over and over and dreamed that someday these words would speak true to my own life. 

The day we found out we were having a little girl I found the song again, tucked away in my iTunes library. As I listened to it, I couldn't help but begin to cry...maybe it was just my crazy hormones acting up again or maybe I realized at that exact moment that I'm going to be a mama to a beautiful daughter soon. That I'm giving her this life.  That it will be my responsibility to give her the wings she needs to someday fly off on her own. 

 I can't think of a more beautiful way to say it...

Nephew Love

Little Sanford, you melt my heart every time I see you.

we're half way little girl :)

I feel like my sense of time doesn't exist anymore. Time feels like it has flown by, but yet at the same time, it feels so slow.  Sometimes it even feels stuck, like the snow that just won't melt this time of year. There is so much to think about and prepare for and then time seems to speed up again, but then I remember I am growing a tiny person inside of me and time slows down. She needs time to grow and I'm perfectly content with having my little girl so close to me for twenty more weeks. 

When we had our appointment yesterday we waited anxiously through the whole thing until the very end when they were ready to tell us if we would have a daughter or a son.  From the very beginning of this pregnancy my husband and I have had such a strong feeling that we would be having a girl. 

I'm starting to really believe in the power of a simple dream.  I dreamt about her early on and ever since then have known deep down that that's who was inside of me. And it was just five months ago that I woke up from a very vivid dream and knew that I needed to take a pregnancy test...completely out of the blue.  I'm glad though that not all of my crazy and stressful pregnancy dreams have come true...especially the one where I took the entire Kindergarten, all 100 of them, on a field trip by myself to a parking garage...

These past few months have been such a roller coaster of emotions for my husband and I.  We are coming to the realization that come summer, our lives will be different forever. That it won't be about us anymore...staying up late, sleeping in until lunch, seeing how long we can go without grocery shopping. 

But then we realized that we want our child to be a part of the life that we already have...the great parts.  We want them to enjoy our lazy Sunday mornings and late afternoon picnics at the park.  We want them to enjoy riding in the car listening to their dad's favorite Bob Dylan songs. We want them to watch funny movies in bed with us.  It will become our new life together, the three of us. Some of it we will carry with us from the past and some of it will be created new as we grow as a family. 

{Thank you all for your sweet sweet comments! We are so excited!}

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We are so excited to meet our little girl!