“Oh! Hey! There you are! Welcome to my mommy’s new site. She said that since it was a big weekend and all that I could have the first post on her first site. You know, ’cause this blog is really all about me.”
“That being said, I’ve got a secret I want to tell you….”
Mommy and Daddy just found out this week, and Daddy said that Mommy should wait to tell you guys until after the doctor’s appointment, but I convinced them that this really is the best time to tell my big news. It is, after all, the first post in the New Year on the new website. I mean, could the timing be any better? Mommy agreed with me, so Daddy didn’t really stand a chance.
Anyways, I’m pretty excited about this. Looks like 2012 is going to be a pretty big year for me. I’m going to turn 2, I’ll probably get potty-trained, I just stopped drinking from a bottle yesterday, Mommy says that we’re probably going to move before the baby comes, I’ll be sleeping in a big girl bed, and I get a baby brother or sister.
Yep, 2012 is going to be quite the year for me.
HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYBODY!!!!!!!
Love,
Zoe The Real Star of the Show
PS. A note from the mom:
It’s been quite a whirlwind over here the past few days! Brad and I have had a hunch that we were pregnant for a few weeks, but we didn’t really find out until Thursday. I’ll tell you more about the story later this week. So far, what we know is that I’m about 6 weeks along, I have my first DR appt in 2 weeks, and I’m due in late August {literally THE hottest month of the year in Florida.} Zoe and this baby will be exactly 2 years apart, which is awesome. And, well…. actually, that’s all that we know right now! So new! So exciting! What an adventure 2012 is going to be!!!!
Happy Monday Ya’ll, and Happy New Year from the Harvin’s!!!!
If you read Thursday and Friday’s posts last week, you know that our week sucked big time wasn’t exactly that fun. One of the things that got me through the week, and that has helped tremendously this year, is repeating to myself over and over and over again a list of what I’m thankful for. In fact, Friday night when I couldn’t sleep and it felt like everything in the world was piling on my shoulders, I reached over to hold Brad’s hand and we started brainstorming every single thing we could think of to be thankful for. He was thankful that I didn’t have to work that day, and that I’d come to surprise him for lunch…. he said that thought alone carried him through the day. That I was safe. That I with him when it happened. That we were close to home. I wish you could’ve heard the gratitude and the absolute faith in the tone of his voice as we were laying there in bed. I said I was thankful that there was money in the bank, we have a roof over our heads, we can pay the bills, Zoe is healthy, Jess and Ryan came by to visit…. the list goes on.
And then, over the weekend, I started thinking that I wanted to do a week of giving thanks. I know that it’s pretty popular on Facebook right now to do the “31 days of Thanksgiving”. I think I did it for like 3 days or something. But, when I think back over this year… or the last 15 months…. gratitude is one of the predominate themes.
This past Saturday my parents showed up at our house “to help”. By the time they were done “helping” Brad was completely speechless, and I was just about there myself. But, that’s what this year has been like…. Brad and I get to a place where we don’t think that we can walk another step, and then our village steps in, and they say {in countless ways} “I’ve got your back.” “We believe in you.” “We love you.” “We believe in what you’re doing, keep going.” And that humbles me in ways I can’t even put to words.
Just as I was writing that last paragraph I had a flashback to our wedding. Brad and I wrote our own vows, and in my vows to him I said, “I’ll be your biggest fan and your loudest cheerleader”. And, that’s what our village has been to us through this season. Honestly, I don’t even know if I have words in my vocabulary to say how incredibly thankful I am for that. I’ve leaned on their support more than I even realize. The times where love and encouragement helped smooth a transition with Zoe. Or when we get that night off just to go be a married couple. {Just this past Saturday my parents sent us to the store while they stayed home with Zoe…. we were like kids! That was one of the best shopping trips that I can remember, just enjoying each others company… laughing and flirting all through Publix.} I’m just grateful for it. The times where we’ve been given an unexpected gift card to a restaurant nicer than Five Guys, or when we’ve stood in front of our cupboard and tried to figure out where the money was going to come from for groceries…and then the next day they’re full to overflowing because one of our parents just “stopped by to give us a little something”. It’s humbling. It’s faith building.
I could go on and on with examples from the past 15 months of love, support, encouragement, and unexpected provision {like in the thousands of dollars, unexpected provision} from this past year. But, instead, I just want to say thanks.
To Our Village,
Thank you for every time you’ve come beside us and held our hands on this journey. Thank you for every ounce of support you’ve given. Thank you for listening to me as I freaked out about becoming a mom. Thank you for laughing at me those times I’ve gone a little bit crazy. Thank you for helping me laugh this year. Thank you for filling our cupboards, our gas tanks and our hearts. Thank you for writing checks and for sitting on our couches and sharing your life with us. Thank you for distracting us from whatever problem we need distracting from, and for analyzing situations until we figure out the problem and then helping us come up with solutions. Thank you for sending us out on date nights. Thank you for thinking that my child is the most amazing child on the face of the planet, or at least for acting like you do. Thank you for spoiling my daughter like crazy, she is so lucky to have a village like you. Thank you for encouraging me to write. Thank you… for everything. We are so incredibly blessed to have a village like you.
I went to school to be a History teacher, I became a stay at home mom instead. Known to fly by the seat of my pants. I tend to greet life with laughter. Wife to the most amazing husband in the world, mother to a spunky toddler and ridiculously easy baby. I'm a wanna-be photographer. Avid reader. Lover of Diet Coke, fall clothes, peanut butter, and God. Addicted to Home Decor blogs.
