Counting My Blessings
I've had a few difficult days recently. I think I've spent a lot of time since the miscarriage keeping myself very busy - Christmas, adoption, overall catch up - and now that I have a moment to think, well, it seems like I've noticed a lot of sadness that I haven't dealt with yet. In one way I'm relieved because I need to deal with it, but in another way, it's just...sad. So I decided to take a moment to notice some of the ways I've been blessed lately. I've been preparing the nursery this past week or so. The agency suggests that if you feel the need to nest you should do it now as it helps lessen the potential pain of a fall through if you decorate for a specific child. I feel the need to nest so that's what I've been doing. The blessings are many, but the one that overwhelmed me the other day was just how incredibly generous our friends have been to us. We didn't keep much after The Nugget grew out of babyhood, largely because