Mellow Monday

I managed to motivate enough this morning to get up and go to Zumba at Babs. I managed to make it through the entire class today as the baby was cooperating with me. Saturday I had to stop about 15 minutes early as the baby shifted and was causing some discomfort for me. Of course as soon as I sat down, he moved and I immediately felt better. It was drizzly all morning so came back home and hung around the house. I ended up changing out of my exercise clothes and back into my pajamas and soon found myself napping on the couch. JoJo kept me company by napping on the floor underneath me. The weather made it really hard to get motivated to do much of anything today. I did do quite a bit of writing and then finally decided I would try to put together the second cabinet that we had purchased from IKEA, but when I opened the box I discovered the glass door was shattered. Yikes! I guess we won't be putting that cabinet together until June when we can take the door in and get a replacement. It's a bummer, but I guess that's life. I was hoping to have the bathroom finished this week, but I guess it will have to wait on a cabinet for a few months. The mailman came and dropped off a package on our front door. When I opened it I realized it was from my friend Chad and his wife Jennifer. Chad and Jennifer's first son Grayson was born really premature and he died shortly thereafter. When we lost Nolan, Chad reached out to me and he has been a great source of strength and help for Marshall as he was the only man we knew that had lost a child that was willing to talk about it with Marshall. Today, they sent us a congratulations note on the new baby and a beautiful seahorse statue for the nursery. It was so thoughtful of them and the note said they thought it would look good in our nursery and they are so right. It will look amazing in there. Chad and Jennifer are another couple that has given us hope during this pregnancy as they got pregnant again after losing Grayson and they now have a healthy baby boy, Jackson. The problems they had with their first pregnancy did not repeat themselves and so I've held on to the hope that the same would be true to us as well. So far that has been true, but we still have 2 1/2 weeks left to go so I keep hoping that all continues to go well for the remainder of this pregnancy. Tomorrow morning I get to see the baby again and that is always comforting.