Moving along

As I sit here on a quiet Friday night, I can't help but think it's nice that things are a bit slower even if for a few minutes.  Stephen is at church for a bible study training that's going on this weekend so it's just a quite evening with some music.  Things have been moving so quickly lately, time if flying by, and I am still not ready for this baby to come! Sometimes I wish I could just hit pause for a little bit.  Here are some updates from week 26 or 27 (I've lost count in the last couple weeks)

• The baby has been moving more lately - it seems that he does flips in my belly all day.  It is such a neat and different feeling unlike anything else.  
• I finally finished painting the nursery last night and I'm really happy with how it turned out. Now I have some major cleaning to do :(   
• Un-baby related - My friend Jenny and I have finally started our candy company "The Silver Tin" and we are starting to get a lot of orders in which is exciting and semi-stressful because we both work full time.  We've talked about this for so long though so I'm really excited to see it take off :)
• I've decided this week that I'm taking the full 12 weeks of maternity leave - I wasn't sure if work would need me back sooner especially since another PT will have a baby during the same time I'm gone but I talked to my supervisor and she was really supportive of me taking all the time I could.  I really love where I work! 
• I'm also toying with the idea and have almost fully decided I'm not going back to work full time - maybe 80% but not sure about the details yet.   
• I've become very concerned about developing rectus diastasis which is common during pregnancy where your abdominals split from weakness and stretching.  Every time I think about it I contract my abs!  

I'm really thankful for my husband, he is a wonderful Godly man who loves me so much.  He works so hard and does such a good job at the church.  I just can't keep this fear out of my head though that after the baby comes there is just going to be too much going on with baby, church, work, life, etc and our relationship will suffer.  I've really been praying about this because I know so many women neglect their husbands after having a baby and I definitely don't want to do that!  There's just so much going on in our life right now that I rarely see Stephen and get to spend good quality time together - I can't imagine adding a baby to it all.  I'm praying to keep balanced - God first, family second, then the other stuff.  

I will try to remember to take a belly pic tomorrow and post some pics of the nursery :)