This happens every year.
In the blink of an eye lazy summer days are over and you are sitting
down with your family for Thanksgiving then running around like a crazy person
getting things together for Christmas.
Each year that passes feels shorter and shorter and it feels like there
is only a week between Thanksgiving and Christmas rather than a month. So you can only imagine how I feel to have
the normal holiday pressure with the added physical weight and lack of mobility
of this baby sitting on my bladder causing me to run to the restroom every half
hour and creating endless back pain. Oh
yea, and I am now in my third trimester which means that I only have about 80
days left before baby girl makes her appearance into this world.
I feel like the checklist of things to do before D-Day is constantly growing without me crossing anything off the list. Plus everything was put on hold to do just
the normal day to day stuff that happens this time of year. Christmas shopping, work, decorating, holiday
parties, etc. I’m not trying to complain
– these are all fun activities and I don’t want to skip out on them, but each
obligation in my day means one more day to push off the other responsibilities that
I have. Setting up the nursery, taking
the classes at the hospital, setting up an appointment with the pediatrician,
etc. What I would love is for time to
stop for about a week. In that time I
can sit in a cozy chair, snuggled up with a cup of hot chocolate enjoying this
amazing week Florida gets once a year where it is cold enough to wear a sweater
and reflect on what the Christmas season is all about. I get so caught up in the consumerism side of
the holiday that I forget to reflect on the amazing gift that gives me a reason
to celebrate this joyous day each year.
But alas, I don’t have the super power to stop time so I will just have
to make an effort to make the time to have a little quite moment to be still in
reflection.
Logan and I did get a short moment to spend in reflection of
all the accomplishments we’ve had over the past year and what we have to look
forward to in the year to come on Saturday night. He just finished a big project for work that
his boss rewarded him for with a date night out with his wife. So for the first time since being pregnant, I
got all dolled up for a night on the town.
It didn’t hurt that we did a maternity shoot earlier that day so I
already had my nails and make up looking good.
I found a dress that didn’t make me feel like a manatee, threw some
curls in my hair and let my man wine and dine me. The whole time I couldn’t help but think
about how much our life is about to change.
These date nights are going to be few and far between. Some people might see it as depressing that
my night is ending at 9 on a Saturday and I’m looking forward to getting a good
night’s sleep vs. the days where I didn’t start getting ready to go out until
9. Or that I’d rather spend a Friday night
after a long week of work in my PJs sitting on my patio with a glass of wine
then listening to a local band at a bar.
But these are changes that we are ready for and are excited about. Besides, if a fancy date night or a night out
to the bars becomes a rare occasion rather than a weekly norm, we might actually
appreciate and remember those experiences vs. just being a part of the blur of
the past year that always overcomes me right around Christmas. 
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