Baby Girl #3

So I have been really awful about updating my blog. Reason being that I have taken a million pictures in the last few months, and just haven't found the motivation to load them, and then blog about them. Also, I haven't been feeling well lately so blogging is the last thing on my mind.

I realized I haven't even taken the chance to blog about our soon-to-be arrival, Baby Brown #3! She is due in less than four weeks, but at my appointment yesterday the doctor says she can come at any time. He even did an ultrasound to make sure the baby wasn't breach in case I do go into labor before my next appointment on October 1st.

I want to make sure I document my feelings about this pregnancy since it's been almost nine months and I haven't blogged one word about it. I am so grateful that I am being trusted to bring another beautiful little girl into this world. It's such a wonderful blessing. At the same time, I don't know how I am going to survive having three children under three! I know there are other mothers out there that have done it, so maybe I can too. I just have to keep telling myself that.

Physically, this has been my hardest pregnancy and yet other times, the easiest. Easiest because the first six or seven months flew by so quickly as I had a newborn baby to take care of already. Both she and Ashley keep me so busy that I didn't have time to sit and think a lot about how I felt or dwell on the next addition to our family. However, now that Madison is crawling and getting into everything I can't lift her or walk at times without pain. This has been really hard on me, as my brain has all these ideas of what it wants to accomplish each day, but my body won't let me do any of them. It's a good thing I have the most amazing husband who comes home after a really long day at work, and turns into super husband and father. He gets the dishes done, laundry in, the girls bathed and put to bed. I don't know what I would do without him.

This experience, especially over the last week, has really made me lean on others for help. My wonderful friends have stepped in to watch both of my children almost every day over the past two weeks so that I can keep my feet up. I also can't stand for a long time, so these wonderful friends of mine have brought in dinners, treats, and three of my friends plotted with Chris and got me out of the house while they cleaned my entire house for me.

Chris and I aren't ones that like to have to rely on others for help. We like to be the ones giving the help instead of receiving it, but this experience has also taught me that we all need help at times, and that I don't know what I would do without the help we have received. I know one day I will get my body back to be able to take care of my family, but for now, I realize I need to rest and do what's best for this baby.