Happy Monday

So almost every Monday of my life since Kindergarten I've dreaded. It's either been the first day of school after the weekend or the first day of work. Now though, I have a different outlook on Monday's. It's Bill day off! Which means it's a great start to the week, however I seem to get very confused on what day it is.
Lately it feels as though my life seems to be consumed by doctors appointments, which is a good thing. Every time they say the same thing. The baby looks amazing, he's growing like he should and everything looks good. We are very happy to hear that every time. I'm starting to have contractions which is a good thing (so they tell me). It's not very pleasant to be woken up in the middle of the night with contractions, but it's another sign that things are progressing and he's getting ready to make his entrance into our world. We learn more every day that Isaac has his own way to do things. Every time we go for a non-stress test he gets very unhappy with me. On Friday the poor nurse at the hospital had to case him around then finally he decided to stay still. Today we weren't so lucky. From what she said, he did have his back towards us which made it harder to hear his heartbeat. Well, the nurse thinks he was sleeping when we started so he didn't get too mad, but let me tell you he must not have liked the fact that we woke him up. He basically refused to stay still long enough to get a good reading on his heartbeat. Because he kept moving the poor nurse literally had to sit on her knees for a 1/2 hour and chase him around my belly because he would get mad and "swim" away whenever she put any pressure on him. It was almost amusing if the poor nurse wouldn't have had to sit there the entire time. This baby surely does have a mind of it's own. Hopefully when he's born he doesn't mind if people touch him because I have a feeling he's going to be the hit of the town.
So we are very excited that things are going well and he's growing like he should. We are hoping that since he's measuring around 36 weeks we only have about 4 weeks before we can meet him! Even if he doesn't come on his own the doctor will take him in about 5 weeks so I can't really complain.
So last night at church we had a celebration service. I can't complain that we don't usually have Sunday night services so we enjoy going when we have them because it's always a time of worship. Last night we did a lot of singing and worshiping as well as sharing what we were thankful for. I couldn't help but think what our life was like a year ago. If you've been keeping up with our lives, you know a lot has changed in the past year. Last Thanksgiving we were praying for Bill to have a ministry, specifically a full time ministry as well as a start to our family. This is something that we had been praying for for a long time. We never would've guessed a year later we would be living in Idaho about to have a baby. I think how ready we were to move on and start our lives, wondering if God was hearing our prayers and if He would ever answer them the way we wanted. We started to believe that full time ministry and having a family of our own might not be what God wanted for us. Maybe He had a different plan for us, we just needed to figure out. After many more months of disappointment God blessed us first by finding out we were going to have a baby. We both felt as though if God provided this baby, He would by no means leave us high and dry with no way to provide for the child He had given us. Little did we know about 6 weeks later we would get a call from a Pastor in Idaho asking if we were interested in learning more about their church. Least of all did we think 5 months later we would leave everything we had in Lynchburg and move all the way to Idaho with me being 7 months pregnant. This just goes to prove that God's plans might not be in our time or exactly what we thought they should be, but His plans are always so much bigger and better than our limited minds can imagine.
Often times we revel in what God has done for us for a short period of time. I encourage you to do whatever you need to do in order to never forget how God has provided for you or supplied you with something that you've been praying for, even if you've been praying for a very long time. God has been continually reminding me that His plans are so much bigger than ours.