Thanksgiving in my heart
Lotsa hiccups and kicks these days. The baby (yes, we actually refer to this little one as “the baby” despite having both a girl name and a boy name decided… which I know makes us sound strange but I promise that I have already begun to bond with this child) is head down and I can actually tell what body parts are where, thanks in part to the gargantuan size of my belly and the fact that this is my third pregnancy in three years.
I am so thankful that the people I know in both Katy and Spring are alive and well. Katy was not in the path of the eye of the storm but Spring was. I am thankful that Austin was utterly unaffected weatherwise and was able to keep so many people from Houston and its suburbs safe, even sunny. Ike was a very North-South kind of storm and did not affect us at all to the East. I am thankful that we have electricity (and therefore air conditioning) and clean water, food, and gas in our cars. I’m especially thankful for my clean dry bed, sheets, this roof over our heads and the ceiling fan on at night!