Reflections

Forgive my cheesiness as I reflect on these last weeks and days of pregnancy... (blame it on the hormones). It feels like forever ago that I was nervously beckoning Eric from the garage to show him that the little stick displayed two lines instead of one. And I can't believe the end is already here! A couple of things have hit me with a little bittersweetness as we near the end. I'm a little sad to enter this new phase of adulthood, and know I will miss some of the fun adventures that Eric and I have enjoyed as 'just us.' The lyrics of this song by one of our favorites, (Switchfoot), make me reminisce about all of the fun we've had together and our carefree life thus far. It talks about our happy memories being 'Souvenirs'...
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"Here’s to the late nights, here’s to the firelight, these are my souvenirs, my mental pictures of everything. I close my eyes and go back in time, I can see you smiling, you’re so alive.We were so young, we had no fear. We were so young, we had just begun. A song we knew, but had never sung, it burned like fire inside our lungs. I wouldn't trade it for anything, my souvenirs."

The redeeming part of this slightly depressing song is that it ends by saying "We were so young, we had no idea... that life was just happening." As fun as it is to reminisce about our carefree years together, I realize that the richness of our lives and adventures will be multiplied beyond compare when our little boy arrives.