Easter week came and went so fast this year. We made some pork roasts for our Easter dinner on base, which included one other family plus ourselves. Everyone else is gone. The outreach teams have left for Saint Lawrence Island and for Colorado. We're keeping up the fort and going to midwife appointments! Just two months left til due date.
So now I cook for only 9-10 people per meal instead of 24. That's a nice break. Even so, I get exhausted so easily these days, third trimester fatigue. And I find myself awake and alert in the wee hours of the night and morning when I wish I could be sleeping...another pregnancy thing I guess. I try to take a nap atleast once a day, but don't always get to.
BearHunter is filling his work hours with fix-it jobs around the base. They have mudded walls and ceilings, installed a waist-high wood border on the lounge walls, replaced the entrance to the eaves with a snugger fitting frame to prevent heat loss. And other projects like those.
I went to my first ladies' Bible study this morning at the nearby church. Not sure yet if I'll become a regular with that or not. We also joined a Monday night Bible study at the same church, reading through one of Chip Ingrams books.
Spring has finally hit us this week with warm sunshine and enough heat to melt the snow build up. I can see green and brown grass exposed all over town. Of course, the huge piles of snow and ice take longer to melt through, but mostly it's looking like a whole different place.
BearHunter and I had amazing experiences at a conference last month called HeartChange. The final result for BearHunter was a new, bigger trust in God. And for me, I have fresh identity in my femininity. I'm still seeking God on his design for women and what it means to be feminine in His Image. But it's been fun to finally truly enjoy "pink, girly stuff" that I used to gag at the thought of. My desires are changing, because God did something on my inside. So that's been fun to see the changes in both of us since the seminar.
With only two months til baby will be here, it's time to start arranging our room to fit the crib and other baby supplies. Fitting another dresser in here will be difficult, so I may try to convert the top drawer of my dresser into a baby clothes drawer. Just keep the clothes that fit now in it and rotate what's in there as baby grows. I turned one of the shelves on the entertainment center into the diaper changing station (where a TV would go if we had one). The crib which the British couple will leave for us fits nicely into one nook of our T shaped room. We may yet buy or build another piece of furniture but haven't found anything perfect yet. We pretty much have to find it locally because few companies ship large items to Alaska.
Today we enjoyed a beach bonfire for lunch, hamburgers and hotdogs freshly roasted. Beautiful mountains seen across the bay and only a slight breeze to keep our jackets about us. It was good to get out. It's easy to let the days fly by and stay busy with our work, not getting outside much at all. It's so healthy to be outside; fresh air, sunshine, everything is good for the soul I think. And the sunlight is increasing dramatically here. It's starts getting light before 7am and stays light out til atleast 9 or so. Soon it'll be midnight and light out I'm told. May you get outside today, too!
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