{You are SO beautiful!}

Sometimes being pregnant is hard. True story. Sometimes I miss my old body and I have had a couple of dreams about being back to my normal size. Overall, it's great, but sometimes it just gets a little hard. Being pregnant is the most wonderful thing and I love it. But, every now and again it's great to get some encouragement.

When we went to the Cubs game last week I had to take a trip to the little girls room [surprise....tiny bladder+big baby=frequent toilet trips]. After washing my hands I was wiping off the smeared make-up under my eyes and thinking, "I'm looking quite worn and tired...dang it." At that moment a girl...lady....person my age-ish walked up to me with huge smiling eyes and said "You are SO beautiful!!!" I gave a little hiccup of a laugh and said thank you. She then proceeded to awe at my belly, ask me questions about the baby, and was just so sweet continually commenting on how beautiful I looked. She said that she was trying to get pregnant and that it was so great to see me so happy and so beautiful and pregnant.

Isn't that the nicest thing in the world? I remember when the husband and I were trying to get pregnant and how long that took us [Long is relative - some people try for years, bless them, and others for a few days. It took us about 7-8ish months. Whether you are trying for 1 month or 10 years, every month that you're not pregnant is so so hard] and how grateful we were once we were finally blessed with our little girl. I wished her luck and said that everything would work out [because it always does. Not always in the way that we want, but Heavenly Father has a plan for each of us].

I am so grateful that girl came up and talked to me. Sure it was a little weird at first, sure I laughed about it later, and I'm sure she thought it was silly, too, but it was a great reminder to me. Even if my body is stretched out and I look like I'm hiding a basketball under my shirt, it is beautiful. What a great blessing and opportunity I have. I am very grateful and very humbled [more so each day as our guessdate gets closer and closer...] for the opportunity to be a mother.

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