I am thankful that our prayers are being heard and that my MIL did remarkably well during her bone marrow transplant Tuesday. Although these past two days have been harder on her, she is staying positive and continuing to fight. My SIL, Jessie, made a video for her mom that puts into images what words fail to express. It shows love in it’s purest form.

I am thankful for my own mother who would do anything for my sister and I. She drove up to Cleveland today to pick up my sister’s dog Neo (Brit is going to Niagara Falls for the weekend to celebrate her 22nd birthday - Happy Birthday Brit) and we went looking for a dresser for Kade. She is so patient with Kade, which allows me the time to actually shop around (that can be a dangerous thing too - so I don’t know how Kyle will feel about this one). To make it even better, I think I may have actually found a dresser that will work!!

I am thankful that my husband loves his job and that he works with great people. They all went to the Indians vs. Tigers game yesterday as a company and I think he had a great time, which he really needed - given the events of the past week and a half. Sometimes I wish I could trade places with him for just a day or two, but I know that at the end of the day I really have the greatest job in the world.

I am thankful that my OB finally gave me an idea of when Liv will join us in the outside world. After blocking the door to the exam room and forcing him to answer my questions he said he won’t let me go past 39 weeks, which means she will be here by August 26th, but I still don’t know exactly when. It was so much easier when I could just let my baby decide and go into labor naturally. My next ultrasound is on the 17th so I guess that narrows it down from the 17th to the 26th (THAT IS 3-4 WEEKS AWAY - OMG!!!!)

I am thankful for my loving and patient husband because he has had to put up with a crazy woman throughout this pregnancy. I have been having these irrational thoughts for a few months now that he is cheating on me, which I know couldn’t be farther from the truth and even though I know that - I still have the thoughts (which is why they are irrational). I feel so bad that I make him defend something he didn’t even do, and I pray that when the pregnancy is over, these crazy hormones will go with it and my dear husband can have his sane wife back.

I am thankful for this website. If any of you who are reading this are mothers, you HAVE to check it out. It really helps you to embrace your body and the changes that came with it when you became a mother. I’m hoping it helps with my irrational toughts mentioned above, because I think they stem from my recent low body image due to my growing body. This site helps you see that mothers and their bodies really are beautiful.