Samuel James King
The crib is up.
His clothes are folded and organized in drawers.
The diaper bag is packed.
I’ve officially stopped sleeping at night.
AND, my toe nails (is that one word or two?) are freshly painted.
Baby boy, we’re all waiting on you!
I’d like to say a word about Gluppity-Glupp. Also, Schloppity-Schlop. (Unless you’ve read The Lorax a million times like I have that reference will make no sense to you.) I’d just like to say how much fun the last week of pregnancy is! I just really love being unable to sleep, eat, or breathe. I love having swollen feet and ankles and not being able to bend over. I love being an emotional nut case (no difference there from normal, really) and crying and raging alternatively (or simultaneously). I especially love waiting for this huge impending event over which I have no control. Right now it is 4:46 am---what are you doing? I’ve been up for a while, had a snack (bread with jam and butter and a glass of milk) and now I’m posting like any 38-week pregnant woman would be doing. I hope to fall asleep again before I have to get the troops up at 6:45.
Thanks for letting me complain. It really will all be over soon, or just beginning, however you look at it. And I KNOW it will all have been worth it. I just can’t wait to meet our little (okay, big) guy.
P.S. He still has no name. Any ideas out there?
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Goodbye 2008, hello 2009! Goodbye to being pregnant (only 18 more days), hello to a new baby…………….goodbye to being 34, hello to being 35…………….goodbye to 3 children, hello to 4………….goodbye to 11 years of marriage to my F.P.I.T.W. (favorite person in the world), hello to 12….goodbye (hopefully) to unrealistic expectations, hello to a more moderate approach….goodbye to “sport shopping” (as R calls it), hello to being less materialistic……goodbye to my high-strung personality (let’s don’t push it, Kelly), hello to a calmer, more peaceful me…..goodbye to negative habits, hello to positive ones…..goodbye to making lists of things to do, hello to becoming the person I dream of being---spiritual, kind, thoughtful, beautiful, gracious, intelligent—you know, your basic stay-at-home-mom with the perfect house/kids/husband who has it all together and……….WAIT! What was that about unrealistic expections? Ooops! Maybe I’ll just try to be me this year, and to be happy with that. Now THAT would be something to celebrate.
A very merry Christmas from We 5 Kings! Whew! Here’s a holiday review of what happened at the King’s castle…………..
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Christmas Eve we spent at Rich’s parents’ house with the grandparents and our BFF the Knoxes. Most of you know that Eva and I have known each other since birth (our moms were pregnant at the same time) and we really love spending time together with their family. We ate yummy food, exchanged gifts, played games, sang carols and had a wonderful time. We have a family tradition of drawing names to give a homemade gift on Christmas Eve to each other (not with the Knoxes, just the grandparents and we 5 Kings). The gift MUST be HOMEMADE. We all really look forward to this simple gift tradition and its always fun to see what Garrett gives (a hand-painted photo frame to Grandpa D). Cassidy sewed Ben a hat, scarf, and pillow out of Dodger-printed fleece; Ben made his Dad a treat box out of popsicle sticks; I made Garrett koolaid playdoh; Rich gave his mom a picture of Garrett; Grandpa D gave Cass a photo frame with pictures of her in it; Grandma C cheated this year and gave me a printed t-shirt that said “Baby King under construction”; and Grandma B gave Grandma C hotpads that she made. Did you want to know all that? It was a wonderful way to spend Christmas Eve!
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Christmas Day was a blur of ribbons and wrappings! Santa had come and that was all that mattered. We stayed home and the grandparents came to us, winter weather and all. It really is so much fun giving gifts to the ones you love. Even Baby King got two gifts! Now if only he would get here……………
My shopping is not done.
Cass is an amazing singer and she sang Saturday with the LCC up at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. It was fun to drive up there in a blizzard (not) but we love seeing her perform. She has a real talent for memorizing lyrics (she gets this from me) and we look forward to seeing her this Wednesday in her big Christmas concert. As for the other picture, well, that's what you get when you ask a complete stranger who evidently doesn't know how to ZOOM in to snap a nice tight shot of our family. Maybe its better this way. Maybe I don't look quite so chubby (nice thought).
