Cliff & Clair Huxtable

I grew up watching this family. I loved watching The Cosby Show. Recently, I've been watching episodes on Netflix and I love the episodes even more. Especially the love between Cliff & Claire.

Their love reminds me of the love between Nic and me. Well, mostly the love Nic shows me. I know that sounds bad, and don't get me wrong I love my husband dearly but he does a far better job of showing that love. After watching countless episodes of the The Cosby Show, it's encouraging me to be better.

Cliff and Claire are successful people (Cliff being an OB and Claire being an attorney) and yet with their five children (four at home during the early seasons) they still make time for each other. Time for romance. Time for love. What's my excuse for not taking time out for my husband? For both of us really, not making enough time for each other?

I have long believed that love is an ACTION. It's so important to continually love your spouse. Love takes work. It is simply not a feeling that one day disappears. Love is an act that we have not continually demonstrated to our loved one that causes love to disappear. If we are showing love, how can we not feel love? Today I vow to love my husband more. I encourage all of you to take that step as well and love your significant other more today.

Oh, and do yourself a favor if you have never watched any episode of The Cosby Show, go to YouTube and search Cliff and Claire Huxtable. You will laugh and you will be inspired.

6 weeks

6 weeks until we meet our Baby Girl. I can't believe it. It seems like February 1 was just yesterday. . .not five months ago. Relationship with our birth mom is still great. She sends us little updates and funny little happenings. We're so grateful that she chooses to share those things with us. I bought Baby Girl a journal so that when birth mom sends us little stories I put them in the book.

Writing in the journal has kind of been an emotional experience for me. It makes Baby Girl seem even more real. I talk to her as if she was here. Telling her that I sat in her room for over an hour today or how fun it is to see Daddy get excited about her joining our little family. I told her about my love for the ocean and how I hope she comes to love it as much as I do. And again, I tell her the funny stories that her birth mom shares with us.

So far, while in the womb Baby Girl has kicked birth mom on her bladder she had to excuse herself from a client (Birth Mom is also a massage therapist), punched Birth Mom's stomach so hard that a client on the table felt it (he was kind'a weirded out), and been called feisty by Birth Mom's doctor after she pushed the dr's hand away while he was trying to listen to Baby Girl's heart beat. Baby Girl already knows what she does and does not like. Haha.

I still feel like we have so much to do and projects for the baby to finish. Hopefully the nesting bug kicks in soon.

Let the count down begin!