Blissful Moments: Month 9 has been a blur!

Well good morning. It's 7:30 am on Saturday as I write this and here I am, wide awake and have been for an hour. I guess this is God's way of preparing me for little miss sunshine and all her impending wake ups and crazy hours! The past three weeks have been crazy insane and quite a blur. My mom was here a few weeks ago on her way up to Michigan for the summer. It was really nice to be able to spend some quality time with her before the baby gets here. The weekend she decided to drive up with her RV, Rob flew down to Florida to pick up our car and help mom trailer it back here to Kentucky so we could stop paying storage in Florida and needing someone to go and run it regularly. He arrived in Florida at 8:30 am on Friday and was back in Kentucky by 2 am Friday night/Saturday morning. Quick turn around but it was great to be able to get the car up here and start using it and figuring out the next steps. While mom was here with us, we spent quite a bit of time planning for after the baby arrives, how she can be most helpful and what we want to that to look like. I am so thankful to have a mother who is so willing to help out and knows what needs to be done. She will certainly be a wonderful help with cooking, cleaning and packing! As well as fawning over the granddaughter of course :)

While mom was here, our women's ministry from church had planned a family day at Churchill Down's and all 4.5 of us were able to attend. It was a gorgeous day and it was nice to walk around the famous buildings at our own pace and watch the horse races without the craziness that I'm sure exists on Derby Day! We would like to and intend to go to derby while we are here, but it was nice to just wander around and see everything without paying all that money!

As we were walking in a couple stopped us and gave us tickets to their box seats that they had just left up on the second level. It was wonderful to be able to sit down in the shade for a few minutes and just enjoy the relaxing day! I guess they felt bad for the pregnant lady and wanted to make sure I had a place to sit.

It's been so nice having spring and summer weather here finally. I was afraid it was never going to come! We held on to winter for a long time, and even now its still toying with us. 50's in June does not sound like summer weather to me at least...

So mom left mid-week the next week and we have been non-stop since then. I have been working super hard to get everything done at work so that my maternity leave is relaxing and refreshing and the case managers covering for me know what's going on and have as little to do as possible. I finished up all of May's work and have been spending the last 4 days doing all of the work for June as well as prepping all of my files for the other case managers to step in when baby girl decides to make her debut. It's certainly been exhausting and trying but I'm almost there. Just about 2 more hours of work in the office and two more client visits and I will be done! It's amazing what one can accomplish when you have no other choice!

We did get a little rest and relaxation time in as well. This past weekend, Rob had booked us a night in a beautiful bed and breakfast about an hour southeast of Louisville. We didn't want to go too far away in case something happened, and frankly my lovely daughter does not like to let momma sit for very long and she would have a fit if I was in the car for more than an hour, cramping her space. We stayed at this little place called Southern Grace Bed and Breakfast in Bradenburg, which is just west of Fort Knox. It's a beautiful house that was originally a private residence, built by the owners son but was turned into a bed and breakfast about 2 years ago. We got the master suite with our own private entrance from the back porch, a two person jacuzzi tub with it's own private hot water heater, and the most relaxing atmosphere. They have a small farm on the property and we were able to see goats, alpaca, cows and chickens. It was a nice change of scenery for us city folk.

On Monday we got up and had a wonderful breakfast, hot and ready for us. We decided to relax a bit and watch a movie before we headed out for the day and then we headed north just a little ways to a place called Squire Boone Caverns in southern Indiana. They have a small but really pretty cave that we toured and some cute little shops as well. It was a nice adventure without being too strenuous as I certainly do not want to induce labor yet. Too much to do!

Here are a few pictures of our weekend away.