Busy-ness

A lot has been going on in our lives the past few weeks. As of yesterday, the baby is 16 weeks along and has a healthy heartbeat of 154 bpm. We are reminded every day how awesome it is to know that a life we've made is doing so great and will be here shortly. In fact, on the way to work today the Third Day song "Born Again" came on the radio again. However, this is probably the first time I've paid attention to the lyrics and saw how it represented some of the feelings I've been having lately. (See the video and lyrics below in case you've never heard it.) The song obviously discusses the new life a person has when "Born Again" through Christ. Although, I realized that the new life gift also represents our new baby, which will end up changing me equally as much.


We've also been progressing nicely with our possible new home. We are planning an inspection on our new house on Friday and just going through the paperwork to get our mortgage loan. It will be great to know that the baby will have a nice new home and open neighborhood to grow up in. So far, I am thrilled how the process has gone and in the end it looks like we won't be using much of our savings up front. So, more money for the appliances and baby stuff!

As if that weren't enough, I started going back to grad school last week. This will be a good test to see how I can balance all of these things, because I know it's not going to get any easier once the baby gets here. Although, this semester is the first time I've tried two classes and so far it seems even less stressful than in the past. We shall see how this all turns out come Christmas time.

Here's a glimpse of "Dad Butt" I have to look forward to: