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A Florida Christmas December 31, 2008

Filed under: adventures — hokiecaryn @ 8:37 pm
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This year, we traveled at Thanksgiving and decided to stay here for Christmas. My parents graciously offered to come down, as well as my brother, to us so we could have family.  Traveling at Thanksgiving was a good trip, but I was fairly miserable, and figured another 8-10 hrs in a car, or a few hours on a plane might make my back hurt too much, and just make me uncomfortable, so it was nice to be home.

Here are some photos from our various activities leading up to Christmas 2008.  I need to get the photos from my family of my family while they were here; didn’t seem to manage to get any of those. :(   I also didn’t get a photo of my pies and my Christmas meal. Should have, but we were too hungry and dug in too quickly!  I did make a pretty good apple pie; I have to say it looked really nice! It even had a christmas tree and two star cutouts on top.  The pecan pie was TASTY, too.

Christmas 2008 12/31/08 6:47 PM

We also went to the ICE! display at the Gaylord palms. hopefully I’ll have more pictures of that soon. It was again, another wacky Florida thing to do…we’re so warm here, that they bring a room to 9 degrees and people pay good money to go in and look at ice…go figure! Ha. It’s a lot more elaborate than that…it was a really cool display.

 

Keeping Up Apperances, Installment 1 December 31, 2008

Filed under: around the house — hokiecaryn @ 8:28 pm
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While I haven’t named them that here, I like to call around the house updates our “Keeping up Appearances” section. If you have not seen the britcom by this same name, you don’t have to, but we kind of got into it some in preparing for our trip to England last year. For my sake and yours, we can be thankful that I am nothing like Hyacinth Bucket (that’s “bouquet” to you!). But anyway, here goes a household update…

We got close to completing our master bath just before my folks came at Christmas. Scott has done a great job with it. We just have some finishing to do – caulk, make sure the sink and shower are sealed, and finish putting up towel racks, the light fixture, etc. I think it looks awesome, and with all of our work, has become a much larger, usable bathroom than what it started out as. I can’t wait to fully use it! Here are some photos!

Bathroom Remodel 12/2008

I also got to working on a project that was supposed to be an anniversary project for us/Scott, but….that was May and this is December, but it’s done! Finally a piece of graphic art up in the house done by me!! I am really happy with it. The project uses lettering from a company called Uppercase Living. I prepped the canvas (textured with stucco paint) and did the stenciling and layout. Scott hung it for me! :) yey!

Uppercase Living project 2

At some point we’ll get to decorating and preparing the baby room. We’re running out of time, I know, but I also know that he won’t notice any of it until he’s much older! :) So we’re just taking things one step at a time. We do have some of the pieces to put into place…but it required completing the bathroom and getting the toilet out of our second bedroom before we could really make any progress! Ah, home ownership…

 

Attitude December 30, 2008

Filed under: pregnancy — hokiecaryn @ 4:15 pm
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People keep asking me how I’m feeling, and I have to say that I feel like for the most part, this pregnancy has been very “easy”

Having different perspective helps.

Having different perspective helps.

in many ways, physically. I know that so many people’s bodies respond differently throughout, and while there are discomforts, and limitations to accept and tolerate, and learn how to manage, mine have been fairly minimal. At the same time, I have tried very much to adopt the right attitude about this pregnancy experience from the beginning. While I cannot control the difficulty level of much of it, I wonder now how much can be attributed to the helpful advice I have acquired from the many wonderful women who have encouraged me to explore the natural childbirth research and information. Rejecting the attitude of pregnancy and birth being this illness to get through, or this nuisance with great rewards, I have tried to actually embrace the journey along the way.

While I toss and turn many nights or feel incredible acid reflux that is never comfortable, or when I forget that I can’t just reach down and pick something up always…I’m creating (or my body is creating) a person! Every moment of my experience is a time of development, creation of not only this little person, but my own transition into motherhood and understanding what it is to really devotedly care for another being that is completely reliant on me. I’m even completely reliant on my body working because I sure don’t know how to make feet, legs, grow small fine hairs in the follicles, develop brain tissue, teach my baby to accept nutrients from the amniotic fluid, etc. The mysteries and beauty of it all is something that I have to sit back in awe of, and take the time to understand as much of that, appreciate as much of that, and work alongside this process.

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my new soul mate December 29, 2008

Filed under: pregnancy — hokiecaryn @ 4:09 pm
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I titled this entry what I did because I thought it would be kind of shocking in a way. I know “soul mate” is often tied directly to the person you are married to; anymore it’s watered down even more than that. I believe I have experienced what that term “soul mate” is getting at with my precious husband. But I’m actually talking about our first child. This is the beginning thoughts about my journey to getting to know this little person who has developed a relationship with me at a most intimate level in some respects, and yet he is someone I don’t even know. It’s a quagmire (is that a good word?); a mysterious relationship that I don’t know how to define, and look forward to unpacking as we continue this journey.

Many moms have told me about their experience feeling that they’ve bonded with their child while they are growing in the womb. This being my first time, I was of course worried “What if I don’t feel bonding happening” like you worry about EVERYTHING at least for a moment or two, if not days, weeks, etc. And I reassured myself that it was normal to worry about that and doubt my experience. I realize that in the first two trimesters, it was very surreal. It still is to some degree, but the gradual process over 7 months has warmed me up to my growing belly, and the active alien inside. Going from first hints of feeling him kick and wondering if they were even real, or whether it was just indigestion…to now KNOWING he’s there on a fairly regular basis as he moves, squirms, kicks, punches, and whatever else he’s doing in there.

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