Today is the 26th of February, which means that this will be my second post in a month. Hey, I'm getting better at this blogging thing! Ha, ha. I think that the main problem is that I never know what to write on this thing. Liz said she was going to start giving me blogging assignments. That hasn't happened yet, so I'm struggling to come up with some topic of my own. I guess I could just give you an update on things.

Well, things are actually going pretty well! I had a good day. All of the sites that have branched off from our church met together today. There was a good guest speaker. He talked about when Joshua and others with him were supposed to cross the Jordan River. It was flood season, and they were told that they would cross on dry land once they stepped into the river. It wasn't going to dry up and then they'd start across. They had to start across and then it would dry up. Kind of scary when you think about it. We were challenged to look at our own lives and see where we should be taking those first steps that we think will kill us, but that we'll live through, and that will lead to others being able to follow us across the river on dry ground. It was really interesting. I am still processing it all so I don't really know what my current Jordan River is for sure, but it has been a good thing to get me thinking.

After church, Rajeev and I had lunch with some friends and then came home so he could study for his midterm exam which is tomorrow. However, we decided to take a nap first because it was just that kind of day. When I woke up, feeling nice and rested, I thought of how many people have told us lately, "Get rested up now, because you won't get much rest once the baby comes." So, instead of getting up and doing something "useful", I just stayed there on the couch relaxing and enjoying not doing anything else until Rajeev woke up. I justified it all, saying we wouldn't have many more chances for a nice Sunday afternoon nap like this for a while.

I remember hating when Mom and Dad would come home from church on Sundays and say, "Hey kids, it's time for a family nap!" I mean, who wanted to take a nap back when we were kids? Sometimes Mom and Dad didn't make us actually go to sleep during "family nap time". Sometimes we just had to play quietly, and in those cases I think we really tried to do just that - thankful that we didn't have to lay down and take some dreaded nap. It is funny how things change, isn't it? I love to take naps now. I rarely take them any more. (College was a different story, of course. Naps were a regular event in college!) But now, when I think about taking a nap, I usually feel like there are a lot more important and urgent things that I need to be doing. Often I get anxious and end up getting up and doing those instead of being able to just rest. But today wasn't one of those days. I really enjoyed my nap and I was determined to stay there and not get up and do everything else that was on my to-do list. After all, sometimes naps are just necessary. And right now, I can just blame it on being less than 3 weeks from the baby's due date and needing to rest up with my husband. That's a good enough excuse, right?