I'm Pregnant! Life update

In case you have missed my Instagram posts, I am pregnant with our first child, and even though I am already in my THIRD TRIMESTER (holy smokes), I wanted to write about my experience so far with pregnancy.  To start, this was planned, and yet it came as a total surprise to me because it happened sooner than I expected, but like we like to say, "it's been God's plan all along." Up until a year ago, I struggled with the thought of even having kids. I had been with my husband for seven years, married for three years, and we loved where our lives were. He was finishing school; I was considering starting a master's program. All seemed to be working in our favor. It's not that we didn't want children; it's that we continued to use the same line many couples like to use, "we are not ready." But here is another truth I was neglecting to admit, we had been wanting kids for years but had been putting it on hold because it was not the "right time," or at least that's how people and life circumstances made us feel.

"enjoy your first year of marriage" (this is true, and I was more than thrilled waiting a year).
"wait till you have a home, babies take up a lot of space!" (we lived in an apartment so we put it off).
"you have to be financially stable" (although money was not an issue, I hated my job and was looking for an out, so that meant putting the baby making on hold.)
"dad is recuperating" (the year we talked seriously about children my dad got sick, and we moved in to help my parents while my dad recovered from open-heart surgery. NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR A BABY! I told my self over and over again.
Best Friends' weddings, Can't celebrate and be a maid of honor while you're pregnant. (for two years straight, I was matron of honor for two of my best friends and having a baby around their wedding was not in the cards.)

So flash forward to May 2019, the last wedding of the year is over, I've turned 29 (mind you two years ago older than when I had planned on starting a family), and the idea of having a baby was all I could think of. I wanted to bring it up to my husband but since we had this talk time and time again, we always ended up coming up with a reason why we should wait. But I didn't want to wait anymore. Not because of my age, not because I wanted to go against everyone's advice but because I couldn't continue putting my life on hold for everyone else. And you want to know the best part? My husband felt the same way I did. So here we are, 36 weeks and three days pregnant with our little blessing and I couldn't be happier. Trust me it has not been easy and I will fill you in on what has been going on these past eight months, but I still feel honored and blessed to be starting this new chapter in our lives. And I am even happier because it's all  been in God's timing, he put this wish and need in my heart, and he has provided. Who's ready to read more? Because I promise you it only gets better.

Blogs will continue from here on out. Still trying to figure out a set schedule, but for now thank you for getting to the end of this and sticking with me.






Sincerely,


Lynette Sahar <3