Attitude addition.

I have realized lately that l seem to be complaining a lot, "my stomach is huge, I can't sleep, I have to pee every 5 seconds, Acid is eating my throat, Yadda Yadda Yadda...."
Really how much are you people supposed to take?
Answer? As long as it takes to bring these babies safely to the world. I am big and getting bigger and I am uncomfortable and tired and grumpy!

That said, I am also profoundly grateful for this time of my life, so in addition to continuing to update on my pregnancy stresses, I would like to also enumerate my blessings, one for each day of November

1- When I am really sick, I have enough friends and family to cover all the bases for me so I can stay at home and take care of my family and self.

2 - The Brown Family from church brought us dinner last night, I felt a little silly when she called the night before to say that she was going to do that, but then I spent my day taking Liana to the doctor's and the X-ray Lab and getting Ella to-and from school, figuring out homework, and dealing with Nina who didn't get her nap. Never has a pork-chop dinner been so welcomed! Thank you Brown family

3 - A quasi healthy Liana (cleared by the Dr.) returned to preschool and Library time, allowing me to take a shower and actually get dressed.

4 - Ella's Parent-Teacher conference showed what we expected, she is an intelligent motivated learner who is at the top of her class.

5 - I am big, but I am still pregnant and still mobile, I go walking 3-4 times a week with friends who like me enough to go slowly and wait for my Braxton-Hicks contractions to stop. I know some really dedicated mothers who at this point of pregnancy have been on full or partial bed rest, hospitalized, or already had their little ones and endured the stress and heartache of having a little one in the NICU.

6 - Medical Insurance - I decided with the recommendation of multiple doctors and after reading it up to get the H1N1 vaccine, the down side is that my doctor didn't have it yet so I had to go to the County's walk-in clinic for my shot (translation 3 hours of waiting in various lines and rooms for 30 seconds of treatment) I am really grateful that I don't have to go through that every time I need medical attention.

7 - I am Greatly Pregnant. It would be really dumb of me to not recognize what a blessing it is that Eddie and I have been blessed to have biological children without medical intervention and that this time around we are doubly blessed. I am grateful too that interventions exist, because some of our very best friends have become fabulous parents of their own bio-kids with a little help. I am also grateful for adoption and the blessing that it is to the parents and children alike and because adoption has brought some fabulous people into my life.