This is truly how my world looks like since I am pregnant!
It all begun throwing up all my Thanksgiving dinner and having a huge migraine that even my husband's captain at the firehouse requested for me to stay over that night if I didn't get better.....yet I didn't have a clue and waited until the pain went away....

Then two weeks later, I found out the wonderful news of expecting a baby, with tears in our eyes, my husband and I could not believe on God's faithfulness to giving us this gift! I felt so much joy knowing that this miracle will come to a home where his/her parents put God as their first priority in their lives, and have been making sacrifices since long ago to be an example for our little miracle!

All these was wonderful, yet reality check came to my door! I never knew pregnancy symptoms were as bad as they are!!!!
I am constantly throwing up, full of nausea, extremely sensitive, and I get very painful migraines. Worst of all, I can get all these symptoms simultaneously at any time without warning.....As an oxymora, I am forced to learn to take my days one day at time, which is a blessing in itself. God wisely is teaching me to become a mom :)

Futhermore, I am recently find out that I can't have any type of meat including fish, not even smelling it! My poor husband is experiencing how life would have been if living with a vegetarian! I said poor, because if you know my husband, he is all into Paleo diet, which in summary is a diet of meats and vegetables, no CARBS!!! And now, all I can eat is soup, lots of vegetables and fruits, and plenty of CARBS, YUM!!! The joke is that baby is ruling for now.......

Despite of all, I am very happy and joyful to sing to my baby in Spanish "una ternurita, una ternurita es mi bebe" every time I feel bad and read to him/her. Also, it's a relieve knowing that every time I feel bad, it means that I am having a healthy pregnancy and my baby is growing strong!Literally,this baby is growing strong as on my 12 week check up, baby was already 6.2 inches....oh yeah, I guess baby didn't get the memo that I am petite :). Thankfully, baby is getting all my nutrients as so far I have only gained 3 pounds in 4 months while baby gets bigger & stronger!

Love it!

As a little twist on my quiet times, I want to share once in a while encouraging words or scriptures from my journal based on different themes. Here is the first theme:

FAITHFUL PROMISES

"Great faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It's simply taking God at His word and taking the next step." by Joni E. Tada

"God takes care of His own. He knows our needs. He anticipates our crises. He is moved by our weaknesses. He stands ready to come to our rescue. And at just the right moment He steps in and proves Himself as our faithful heavenly Father."  by Charles  Swindoll

"Faith goes up the stairs that love has made and looks out the window which hope has opened." by Charles H. Spurgeon

"Let us draw near to God...Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful." Hebrews 10:22-23 NIV 

It's true about God's faithfulness as my life spells each of those words: FAITHFULNESS. I could not have this amazing life(not even a chance) if I would not have chosen to live by faith in all the most important decisions of my life. Even in the ones, that built lots of controversy, because FAITH is truly taking a step based on trusting God's word!
I hope my precious baby will have more FAITH than my husband and I combined! The main lesson I want to teach my child is that life without FAITH is like not living at all.......are you ready to take a leap of faith????

 

Today I had to write on the blog to ease my mind about my pregnancy symptoms.
Yes, I got lots of them, which are unexpectable or surprising day by day! I never know what kind of day I am going to get or in which order the symptoms will kick in.....For the past few months, I did through up on Thanksgiving day as the first sign that I was pregnant; I am tired constantly; I have nausea constantly; I have horrible migraines; I don't sleep through the night sometimes;I don't feel like eating and when I do I eat things I don't even eat on a regular basis! This is what makes me crazy as I don't like carbs all the time, but this baby wants carbs at all times, not to mention sweets!!!!
Today, for example, I eat some nice red meat and what happened??? I got pressure headache and through all up, twice! Then the only thing I could think of was "PANCAKES." 
Sometimes, i wonder if this baby is going to be a vegetarian, if it is, baby is going to have a hard time with PALEO DADDY, LOL!!!

Well, all these, just makes me laugh and be grateful that I can experience all these craziness because it's the BEST GIFT IN GOD'S CREATION!!!! All these symptoms are worthy because I already love this baby so much ,and I will give my life for him/her!!!! I already love you unconditionally my baby!!!!

Here is some inspiring quotes about having a baby:

"Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit."~Bill Cosby

"A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for."~Author Unknown 

....And this one is the one I hope to see with contemplation later this year:

"If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle."~Vincent van Gogh

I can't wait to eat some of these tomorrow!!!

It's a new year 2013!!! I stopped writing for a few weeks because I have been with a lot of nausea, headache and other things as I am pleased to announce that I am pregnant! Yes, I am going to be a "mami"in August. There are so many things that I am looking forward through this new stage in my life, yet the most amazing one is to learn how to love in a deeper way, an unconditional love for my baby! As my baby grows and I learn more and more about it, I am facinated of the discoveries of this wonderful MIRACLE, how can I doubt of YOU GOD!, when only by your WILL this is possible!

I am beyond blessed....specially knowing that my baby will have an amazing father in many ways as fathers are the key of a child's growth.....our baby will be filled with love all around the USA & Bolivia! I couldn't ask for more this year....

I have been reading a lot from the book "From Shadows to Reality", today I will share about Adam & Eve and Abraham:

"The story of Adam and Eve is the story of every one of us. Adam and Eve were created to have an intimate relationship with God. God gave them freedom, but he also gave them choices which had consequences. Unfortunately, Eve and Adam abused that choice, as all of us do. The result of that choice was death, not immediate physical death as the first couple had  perhaps been anticipating,but death and separation from God were the eventual result of their choice to trust their own wisdom over the loving admonishment of God.,can anyone relate to this scenario?"

"Abraham was willing to give up his son, his only son. In this story we have a type and an antitype. Abraham the father of Isaac is the type. The antitype is God, the father of us all. When Abraham traveled those three arduous days to the Mount Moriah he was unwittingly demonstrating God's willingness to sacrifice that which is nearest and dearest to himself for our sake. And it is not coincidence that the journey to Mount Moraiah lasted for three days. This is too tells us about God sacrificing his son for our sins. From the moment Abraham set out with this son to make the sacrifice, Issac was as good as dead. Three days later, Abraham received his sacrificed son back from the dead. This prefigures the three days between the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection, when God received his son back from the dead."

 See, the Old Testament is becoming more and more personal to Jesus...."Many thousands of books, poems, songs, plays and the like have been produced by the people to express the human condition, yet God outdid them all right in the beginning of the Bible using the simplest of stories..."