Not really, but I feel like it! :)

The night of the big Farewell Ceremony, I got a call from Joe's dad, who was in Denver, who said he had seen me on the news that night. Then the next morning, in The Gazette,(on the cover, I might add) our local paper, were our names and story. It was a pretty good article I thought. we were proud.

Anyway, I had a bit of a scare the other day. Well, I thought it was a scare, but in all actuallity, I'm a spazz. I woke up on Thursday morning with this bad pain at the top of my stomach and I didn't feel Luke for quite a while. So, I called a friend of mine here who told me to do a stress test. It's something you do to test the fetal movement. You lay down and count the movements you feel from within and if you don't feel him move more than 10 times in two hours, you're supposed to go right in to the hospital. Whenever I do this test, he moves 10 times in like 20 seconds, so when he didn't move much, I was nervous. I hate the idea of "crying wolf", but my friends said, "You have free insurance, why not go in and check, just for your peace of mind?" She obviously knows me pretty well, because I knew I would spend all day worrying. So, we went in and they hooked me up to all these little monitors and of course he was fine. It was so nice to hear his little heart beat again, it's been a while. They had to strap these monitors to me and I immediately was made aware of HIS discomfort, because this giant kick from my belly moved my stomach so much, that Theresa could see it across the room. Through the test, they found out I had been having contractions and that my cervix was soft, preparing for dialation!! AAAAAHHHHH!! It hit me, this could happen really, REALLY soon!! I'm ready though. I know I just said that I can't have this baby yet, but I couldn't be more excited to meet my little boy and see his sweet face! Oh, what a good day that will be!!

Things may be changing in that department, though. Joe may not leave for another couple of weeks and that will put me at 38 weeks, which isn't an unlikely time for me to deliver. So, whether I stay here and have the baby, then go home after or just try and make it home before he gets here is still WAY up in the air. We still have lots of thinking to do and I need some SERIOUS advice from my parents. I know they would love for me to be there when he gets here, but it would also be very difficult for us to get everything set up before he comes....AUGH! My life is SO wierd!! We'll figure it out though! I've just gotta have a little faith!!

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