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At 9 months pregnant...

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I am so ready I have found myself struggling a lot lately. I hate to write about it because it makes me sound ungrateful, makes me sound selfish, and makes me sound weak. But I am so tired. This pregnancy has taken its toll on my body. Perhaps it was spending half of it with a spouse deployed? Perhaps it's having two toddlers that constantly need me? Perhaps it's working? Perhaps it's living in a home that I detest and can't quite feel comfortable in? Perhaps it's because it's my third baby in less than 4 years? Perhaps it's because I'm getting a Master's degree and school is time consuming and cuts into my sleep. Perhaps it's a little bit of everything that's making this one so much more exhausting- emotionally and physically- than I've experienced in the past.  I'm grateful for this blessing, I'm grateful for the gift of pregnancy and will forever acknowledge that it is a gift. That there are enough out there that struggle