1. These babies are HEALTHY, i mean that in both ways it can be taken... They're bodies are developed and functioning properly=healthy. They are... not lightweights=healthy!! :-) 3 weeks ago they both weighed right around what any average singleton would weigh at that point (one even a little heavier!) This is good! and what Hubby and I pray and faith the L-rd for because he has promised it to us! And if I have to get the size of a... a... well I can't think of anything right now... everything I can think of (basketball, beach-ball) I'm already as big as. Well ANYWAY if I have to get 20X bigger because these babies want to be 9 lbs. each! AWESEOME!2. I am HEALTHY, Blessed once again that, although I have done some minor exercises to strengthen my back and body to carry the weight and still be able to carry Tater, it almost seems impossible how much the L-rd took my small efforts and magnified them. I remember back pain in the 1st trimester before gaining ANY weight that has not been an issue since!
3. The enemy, prince of lies, thief, is NOT going to steal my joy during this pregnancy. And I don't have to give in to his efforts because my FATHER says i don't! So I don't consent to the thoughts that I have to feel/be: miserable, achey, in pain, feeling like a cow, discouraged, not sleep well, worried about anything. I am being gently taught that THANKSGIVING(how appropriate for now) is the best way. Ladies, I want any and all of you that are or will be pregnant to love, enjoy, cherish the 9 months the way it was intended and also not be stolen from. So here's the deal: Letting thanksgiving be on my lips! negative things are just going to be spoken over you, to you, and around you regarding your pregnancy and you. Slowly... (sneakily on the enemy's part) you can slip into this negative thinking. You might Start taking things on as if you have to submit to what everyone in the world says is "true" about it! Well, ya don't! and please don't! So you can have LIFE and JOY! So here's what I am reminded of today:
- I am healthy
- I have been blessed with 1+2 healthy children!
- My body is still able to go and do and have energy
- I am still able to carry and take care of my first born (who weighs 30 lbs!)
- I am still able to do most anything just sometimes slower and more cautiously
- I have an amazingly supportive husband
- I have an amazingly supportive family, extended family, and fellowship of brothers and sisters in Christ
- I am a daughter of the KING of KINGS and heiress to his Life Abundant here and now, and forever!
- I am LOVED-How deep the Father's Love for us! Vast beyond measure!
Ok there are many many more things, too many to list here, but when I start focusing on these things instead of all the junk that us pregnant women are presented with I start to feel... not pregnant! (at least not the way the World says pregnant should feel! :))
BUT!!!!... just for giggles!! seriously just for fun, let's take a look at some of the crazy things total strangers will say to pregnant women in public!! my girlfriends and our hubbies say that having an obviously pregnant belly must be like wearing a sign saying: "Please come say any weird/rude/negative thing to me" because this is the only time it seems socially acceptable... (seriously, please don't be offended on our behalf's, these ARE true stories, but I'm just posting them so you might get a laugh. I have laughed these things off, do not regard them at all, and am not looking for your comments to assure me or combat these things, so don't feel the need to do that)
- (when I was pregnant with my first-ONE baby, I got this a lot) "are you sure there's not TWO babies in there?... " um.. yes, pretty sure that would've come up by now...
- (to my girlfriend who still had a couple months left before DD) "Oh you're HUGE! and you still have HOW LONG left?" Well that REALLY makes me want to tell the truth about the two months thing... um... soon is a relative term right?
- (with my singleton) "When are you due?" in 2 months "OH, you POOR THING!"... um ... ok.
- (With the twins) "How much Longer?" 3 months, but there's 2 babies in there... "Oh, you'll never make it that long, Honey!"... ok...
- (From aquaintances not seen in recent months) "WHOA! You're pregnant!" yep, and there's 2 babies in there "NO, there must be like seven babies in there!!"
- (To my friend in walmart, pushing her 1-year old in the cart, also about 7 months pregnant at the time) A woman just walked up to her, looked at her baby, looked at her belly, and started to laugh and mumble something like "oh, honey, you poor thing..."
- (to me this week) "When are you due?" Feb. 6 "Really, I was gonna guess tomorrow!"...
- ( and finally, while waiting in line at Starbucks) a woman seemed excited about my pregnant belly and "cute clothes" as she kept commenting on my cute maternity clothes and finally asked when are you due? I didn't really have a good opportunity to mention that I was having twins, and I just told her Feb. 6th... I think she was expecting to hear "within the month" because she just stopped, disgusted look on her face stared at me for a second, then turned around in line and never said another word to me... I think she was kinda offended or something, or truly disgusted, or she maybe thought I was joking with her... it was bizarre! and I laugh about this one the most!
There are the occasional nice things people say too, so its not ALL bad. But these are funny! Once again, please don't feel the need to type and tell me that these things aren't true or these people are rude. None of this bothers me, but I hope you got a laugh! :-) I do! LOL.
