Haters going to hate, but I absolutely can’t wait for Christmas this year. I have a lot to look forward to. As fantastic as being in the Caribbean is, last Christmas was the first one I have ever spent away from home and it was pretty rough on me. I blame my family for being so wonderful and impossible to stay away from. Just in general I LOVE everything about the Christmas season, and I can’t wait to be back in Canada for it. I want the snow, the cold, bad road conditions that make extra long road trips with great people while Christmas carols are blaring on the radio. I can’t wait to be reunited with all my amazing friends, family and enjoy all the at home comforts I have missed oh so very much (this is a shout out to you Laundry Machine, may we never be separated again).
But beyond my usual love of Christmas and my increased desire for its arrival -due to it signifying the time I will be back in my home world, with my family,- there is an extra added excitement looming over this next Christmas.
Joel and I are having a BABY, which is due to arrive December 25, 2013.
We are extremely excited, a little surprised and immensely grateful for all the excitement and support we are receiving from friends and family. You all rock! We have been praying for 4 years that a little one would enter our lives and all of a sudden I am 20 weeks pregnant and the baby is almost here. Waiting so long for this occasion was not a pleasant journey. I know so many people that are still on their journey. I hope you can all find comfort within your trials and support from those around you. Your prayers will be answered too, at some time when you least expect it, but until then, no matter how bad it is now, you ARE strong enough to get through this. I promise. I know for me it was sometimes very difficult to hear other people’s pregnancy announcements. I wanted to be happy for them but sometimes I was feeling too bad about myself and my own situation to muster up any genuine enthusiasm. That was wrong of me and I feel bad about it. In case any of my wonderful friends that I know are still fighting this battle are reading this, and this post serves as a reminder of what they are going through right now, I get it, I am sorry, and I will do my best to soften the blow. Hopefully I can still put a smile on your face.
One of the best reactions I received when I started telling people I was pregnant came from my way too amazing friend Teri who responded to the news thusly “I knew you were going to get pregnant while you were gone! I know you have been trying for years, but come on, I mean, even Vampires can apparently get pregnant on tropical islands.” Touché Teri Touché! I don’t know why Joel and I could ever have been surprised by this when clearly there is sparkly vampire magic in the air.
I had my first prenatal appointment and ultrasound done last month when I was 16 weeks. If you are interested in the details of this experience I invite you to message me personally since what went down in a third world clinic is not something the general public would want to know about, and I will happily save you from having to read those details. The exciting thing was getting the ultrasound that revealed that Joel and I are expecting an Alien....seriously...Along with sparkly vampire magic, I am adding unconscious Alien abduction to my list of possible explanations for how we are pregnant so “out of the blue”. I was trying to explain this to my brother via facebook. He was trying to reassure me that he was sure it was normal and all ultrasounds look like that. I tried explaining many times that, No-No, it seriously looks like an Alien. He didnt buy it, so I scanned my picture and sent it to him.
He couldn’t see the Alien. I zoomed in, cropped the photo and tried again. Here I have also added a picture of what I see when I look at the ultrasound for comparisons.
He still couldn’t see my Alien. I put the picture into Paint and best I could highlighted my Alien.
Now he can see it.
A few more months of growing will hopefully turn this Alien into a cute little baby. However the only chance of that is if this baby is going to take after Joel. I was looking through baby pictures the other day. Joel is seriously the sweetest looking baby I have ever seen. I on the other hand seem to fall slightly more into the big and awkward looking category. Please oh please let this baby look like Joel!
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| Baby Joel |
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| Baby Chelsey |
Whatever our baby ends up coming out looking like, whether Vampire, Alien, or even Baby me, we are still excited to meet the little one and we thank our loving Heavenly Father every day for this incredible miracle.
Admit it, you are a little more excited for this Christmas now too aren't you?
