Jessica Kelso

I love being pregnant. Let me say that again to convince myself, I love being pregnant!

Really, I do.

I find myself complaining about how hard it is to get up out of bed already (we have a low platform bed), and my booty going numb if I sit in the same spot longer than 20 minutes, and other things I probably shouldn’t mention on here, but then I feel our little girl moving all around and it makes the uncomfortable things seem so silly. I’ve really started to feel her a lot lately, which never fails to almost bring me to tears. Kevin was also able to feel her a couple of days ago. It’s the most amazing thing I’ve ever experienced and I’m so thankful God has given us this precious gift. As hard as I’m sure it’s about to get to keep up with a 1 year old along with being pregnant, I plan on enjoying every second of this journey. For whatever reason, this is where we are and I think it’s exactly where God put us. . . so I’m just gonna go with it!

Although I thought it would take MUCH longer, we have decided on a name! Her first name will be Nola. Middle name. . . still to be determined! It has no significant meaning. It actually stems from the name Finola and means “fair shoulder”. I love how feminine it is and although we have no idea what she’s going to look like yet, I picture the name perfectly with her. We really wanted something short, easy to say and spell, but still unique. So I think we achieved our goal! Her wardrobe is already beginning and I think I’m going to start working on some headbands and bows soon.

This is a pretty busy week, but in return I get to go on vacation next week so it makes it a little more fun. We’ve had to finish up everything to renew our foster parent license and since it’s due a couple days after we get back from the beach, I busted my butt to finish it all before we leave and was successful! Our re-licensing counselor comes on Thursday and I am so excited I will have everything ready to give her early! As long as we pass our sanitation inspection today (which I’m in no way worried) we should be good to go.  Funny how they give us a month to do our part and the system gets almost 4 months to do their part. Ahhh, the joys of fostering. I can’t wait to get away for a whole week. Everyone knows we’ll be gone so hopefully we won’t have many interruptions and definitely no appointments scheduled, which will be a rarity as of late. We have a 3 bedroom oceanfront condo on Redington Beach that we’re sharing with another couple and their 6 month old daughter.

1 whole week of sun, sand, and making Kevin taking care of us. Bliss