My baby baby boy...!

5 more weeks and this baby's time in my belly is up. For a while there I started having nightly panic attacks that nothing was going to be ready, that he would have to go bare bummed because we had no diapers and no clothes. I'm happy to say, amid the past week's haze of baby showers, we are now absolutely swimming in all things necessary to keep his bum clean, powdered, and properly clothed. Prime snuggling condition.

Last night as I was sitting on the floor in his nursery, absolutely surrounded with bags of bibs and blankets and binkies, I couldn't help but think, all of this for this one little person, this one little guy? I mean really, it took me a good two to three hours just to get the tags off of everything, do multiple loads of laundry, and then fold it all. But yes, it is all for him, all of these countless hours spent and more, because not only do people love our baby Rhett already, but I realized that they also love Clarence and me. During my pregnancy I have felt so much love and support, so much happiness and concern over my well being, and I cannot express how much I appreciate every word of advice, every pat on my belly, every tiny sock and mitten bought for Rhett.

Although pregnancy has had its moments of discomfort, I have never felt more blessed. I feel very fortunate to have had a healthy and relatively easy pregnancy. And although I have never felt more like a roly-poly bug, I have also never felt more proud to be a woman and in some ways I've never felt more beautiful. Now that I've gone through what so many other women that I admire have gone through--and I still have the labor to go through...--can I just say that women are truly amazing? The ability that we have to carry a child, the way that our bodies so perfectly adapt to these changes and sustain life, leaves no doubt in my mind that women truly are divine beings.

Life is truly perfect right now. Spring has come, and I can't get enough of the warm weather and blooming trees. Clarence will graduate in 3, yes 3, weeks! And our baby boy will soon be here, and our lives will change from that moment on. While I want these last few weeks to go as fast as the past 8 months have gone, I am also trying to enjoy every day we have now, because I know this time will never come again.