Immense Kindness

We've been awfully lucky since we found out I'm pregnant. I'm hoping the luck is attached to the baby. For life.

My aunt and uncle still have a great deal of baby stuff from when they had their son. Their stash is practically every thing we could want or need outside of furniture... swing, high chair, stroller, 3 stages of car seats and lots more. I'll see them this weekend so we're going to do some planning to figure out how to get this stuff from Ohio to Texas.

The children's director at work is consolidating her nurseries. (I work at a church, by the way.) She rarely has infants in the nursery during services or meetings, so she's getting rid of some of her furniture. After she decided to do this, she said I could have whatever I wanted out of the nursery. So, later this summer, when we're ready to take it, we'll have a crib, changing table and nice sliding rocker.

On top of that, I have now won three different giveaways for baby or maternity stuff in the last few weeks. First, I won artwork for the baby's room from Natural Mommie. Doug and I chose a cute watercolor. Then, I won a big giveaway on the Go Natural Baby website- two baby outfits, handmade rattle, handmade basket and a book. This week, I won an outfit for me on Natural Mommie again! (Seriously... check out this blog... there are great giveaways all the time!) I never win things... and then I win three! It's been quite fun and quite surprising.

I am constantly amazed and thankful for the kindness and generosity of our friends and family. This baby is going to be very well cared for and we have many people to thank for their help.