Hello 2016

2016, you are going to be a good year.  I can see many ups, many downs and many more ups during the course of this year.

Expected List for 2016:

- a baby boy in early April

- a lot less sleep for a few months

- a c-section

- many baby snuggles and sweet sounds of baby snuffles

- tears

- laughs

- swimming

- diapers (getting my American words... people know what nappies are, but only after you've kept talking for a while and they figure that, with the context, you're talking about diapers)

- learning a foreign language (American, see previous item)

- our boy starting Kindergarten (again, see previous item.  Kindergarten here is the equivalent of Year 1 in New Zealand).

Hopeful List for 2016

These aren't a given, but I'm hopeful for:

- a not-as-hot-as-last-year Summer

- some more new friends, I'm a little greedy

- baby beginning to sleep all through the night at an early age, months old, like our first boy

- faster recovery from c-section than last time (I'm trying to stay hopeful, last time was, in a word, 'awful')

- a super comfy and cute arm-chair in our lounge (to claim for myself)

- crafting/sewing/drawing/painting to not take [too much] of a back seat when baby arrives

- more blogging than once a month.

Thankful List for 2016

- the support of the people around us

- Mission68 and our awesome Pastors/worship team, volunteers and such that make Sunday mornings  a breath of fresh air (and tears, unstoppable, every time, bring the kleenex, every time)

- His provision of everything we have and need

- my incredibly supportive husband and my sweet boy(s)

- friends who call when I suck at calling first

- Netflix.  You don't have the selection I would have loved but you are enough, and that is enough

- Pandora.  Listening to my boy sing along to worship songs.  I have them on in the background often, his singing is the sweetest thing

- prayer

- peace that transcends all understanding, always.

2016, you are going to be interesting.  I don't think I'm ready for you, but with God, all things are possible.

xx

EDIT:  TODAY I'm doing the Glucose Tolerance Test.  It's going to be a little different than last time, but I'm still expecting to spew, so the word for today is: nervous!  Pray for me!