Hi everyone! Wow, I can't believe how busy it is at the hospital! I've put myself on a strict schedule of pumping every 3 hours...so far so good, but it takes commitment! Between pumping, having visitors, visiting the girls as often as possible, getting checked on my nurse/Dr., and trying to keep up with pictures (and most importantly, labeling them so we won't forget which sweetie is which), I have NO free time! So...I thank you all for your wonderful kind gestures, thoughts, calls, emails, texts, cards, gifts and most importantly...prayers; know that Pete and I appreciate them more than you'll ever know. I wish I could have the ability to talk to each one of you but that isn't realistic at this point. So I'll try and keep you updated via photos and blogs :-)
A lot of you have facebook, however, the below link allows anyone to view the facebook album...there are so far over 100 I think and we'll try to keep em comin. I will email this link out whenever we've added more to the album. I'm going to keep all the photos in one album for now just for simplicity. And I'm not really going to type much on each picture other than their names in the sake of time.
So, here's the link...you DO NOT need facebook to view these photos. It just brings you to the album...I'm so glad this is an option! Way better than sending photos via attachments or even creating another site...since I've got double responsibility I'm now learning how to do things efficiently and this is one way I can do that!
Also, I'll try and do a blog update sometime this week hopefully. Just a reminder to those of you I may have recently added, the link to the blog is:
All I can say is that Pete and I are self proclaimed "crack" addicts for our daughters. We tried it once and are now forever addicted and can't live without it :-) The love we have for them is absolutely indescribable and can't be explained. I never knew it was possible to love someone(s) so much.
I've been pretty emotional about how miraculous their birth was. MANY nurses, doctors, hospital staff have made it a point to tell me how lucky we are to have everything turned out the way it did. It could have turned out very differently and it makes me physically ill when I think about it. This is the first parenting lesson I've learned...you can't sit and ponder on the "what ifs" because you'll drive yourself insane. I remember feeling this way when I had the miscarriage in November and when I got pregnant again in January I had a pep talk with myself in that some things are just completely out of your control and you have to accept that otherwise it's going to be a really exhausting, challenging ride. I'll tell you one thing...I've always believed in God but this experience has absolutely taken any possible doubts away that I may have ever had. I feel the urge to praise God and work on developing a stronger connection with Him...my faith has been refreshed and I know I'm going to absolutely need to continue to work hard at strengthening it as we begin the wonderful journey of parenthood. Pete feels the same way about this as well. Realizing all this is another major blessing about having our two BIG blessings. It also has allowed us to understand just how truly amazing both of our sets of parents are. I totally get the reasoning behind all of my parent's morals, concerns, overwhelmingly feeling proud moments of their children and reasoning for why they would choose to protect me against something, etc. It makes perfect sense now. And I must say, did you guys ever do a fabulous job of setting proper boundaries and choosing what/what not to be overprotective about. Whew, quite the reflection I just shared. I just have felt so overwhelmed with thanks I don't know how to express myself!
I MUST go sleep for an hour and a half and then I'm up to pump again...I am MOTIVATED to stay on a strict 3 hours schedule so I can feed ma babies! I want chubby cheeks, knees and ankles to be in their near future! :-)
Love you all. God bless each and every one of you...I know you've all been thinking and praying for us and it just goes to show the power of prayer.
-Beck
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