Now You Can Call Me "Momma"

So I've tried to keep you current on all the new things going on in my life. College graduate, check. New wife, check. Grad school drop-out, check.

Now you can call me "Momma." That's right! King and I are having a baby! I always figured that motherhood would find me one day, I just never thought I'd be so young. Twenty-three may not seem exactly "young" to you, but to someone like me who thought she'd wait until near thirty, then yeah, twenty-three is a little young! I'll have a seven-year-old by the time I originally thought I would start having kids.

We're beyond excited! A little taken aback, but still excited! We had our first prenatal appointment yesterday, and everything seems to be coming along beautifully! Praise God! As it turned out, I'm a little further along than we originally thought. We calculated that our due date would be Sept. 29th, but based on the size of our baby, our doctor moved the date up a week.

It was so neat to see our baby for the first time on the ultrasound. There's really no other way to express what you feel when you see that little baby on the screen before you, other than to say there are tons of emotions running through you. Joy, excitement, relief, nervousness. It's so hard to explain just how you feel when you realize that there's another living, thriving, growing person inside you. Wow, what a remarkable responsibility!

I'll try to keep you all posted on how everything's going to play out the next several months. At times, it will probably seem like a never-ending journey, that my pregnancy will never be over. And at other times, it will probably seem like it all flew by too quickly. Either way, I'm sure it will be an interesting ride, and King and I can't wait to experience it.