It was about half past nine on Monday night when Peter and I got to the hospital. We were sent to an assessment room (a curtained-off corner) where I was hooked up to a fetal monitoring system while I waited for a doctor to see me. The curtains weren't soundproof and so we couldn't help… Continue reading Pearl’s Story – Part Two
At 3:19 in the morning on February 24th, Pearl Isobel joined us in the world. At the end of January, following a routine ultrasound in week 34 of my pregnancy, I received a phone call from my doctor. The ultrasound results were slightly abnormal - there was fluid gathered around one of the baby's kidneys.… Continue reading Pearl’s Story – Part One
She's here. She's healthy. And she's beautiful. "Again, the kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it." Matthew 13:45-46 Upon first holding Pearl, her grandmother summed up our thoughts perfectly: "Jesus knit your heart… Continue reading Our Pearl
The Lord your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love. He will rejoice over you with singing. Zephaniah 3:17 Thank you doesn't seem like a big enough response to the love I received after my last post. But it's… Continue reading Waiting…
I like to think of myself as a pretty laid back person. Certainly, I don't believe anyone who knows me could accuse me of having a Type A personality. I'm not that organized and I'm not really a planner. From the beginning of my pregnancy I joked that my birth plan was: 1. Go to… Continue reading The Birth Plan
It's feeling festive around here. Last Saturday, this was my view while eating breakfast: That's right - the first snow of the season! (Hey, that's a West Coast winter for you.) It lingered briefly and is now not much more but a distant memory. Maybe we'll get some more one day. It was a slightly… Continue reading Christmas Comes to Halfmoon Bay
This weekend, Peter and I took off for a couple of days to the furthest reaches of the Sunshine Coast - Powell River! Peter had been before but I never had so it seemed an appropriate getaway for the weekend before my birthday. Waiting at the Earls Cove ferry terminal. We had better luck with… Continue reading Powell River Getaway
The most Canadian things that have happened to me lately: Plugging in our car overnight. The man seated next to me at the medical lab commenting, "It's busier than a Tim Hortons in here." Living on the west coast, we don't get extreme temperatures (in either the highs or the lows) but it's been cold… Continue reading Clear Skies and Mushrooms
We re-arranged our living room recently. Peter accuses me of nesting but I'm sticking firm to my claim that it was his idea. Doesn't really matter though - either way we get to watch the view while we eat breakfast. And now we have this sweet little reading corner. The perfect place for an evening… Continue reading Bring on November
This weekend marked twenty weeks for baby and I and so I've had this song stuck in my head for days. Whoa, we're half way there Whoa, livin' on a prayer Ah, the poet, Bon Jovi. My extremely lovely friend Dawn (Hi Dawn!) send us this little gift in the mail. I love that, so… Continue reading Recently…
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