30 Weeks!

I am CELEBRATING!  Today marks 30 weeks!  I'm so glad to have made it to this point.  Plus, we are half-way through June today, so with my goal to make it til at least the end of July, I can now say we have a month and a half left, instead of two months.  Counting down...

Here is the last picture I took of my normal self, at about 20 weeks:

...and the most recent picture of my big tummy, taken last week, at almost 30 weeks...

Lovely, right?  :)

Spiritual thought for today from Dieter F. Uchtdorf:

...I learned that patience was far more than simply waiting for something to happen—patience required actively working toward worthwhile goals and not getting discouraged when results didn’t appear instantly or without effort.

There is an important concept here: patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with something and doing all that we can—working, hoping, and exercising faith; bearing hardship with fortitude, even when the desires of our hearts are delayed. Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!

Patience means to abide in faith, knowing that sometimes it is in the waiting rather than in the receiving that we grow the most. 

AND HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!