With less than two weeks until her birth, reality is setting in
-Julie Ryan Evans, BettyConfidential.com
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Today I walked into her freshly painted closet and started taking down from the little pink hangers the newborn outfits I've been collecting over the past few months. I went through her drawers and pulled out the soft blankets and washcloths, the little hooded towels and tiny pink socks and started removing price tags and throwing away the receipts I had saved ... just in case. Then I placed them all in the washer with the unmistakably baby scent of Dreft. They're really not going to be returned, I thought as I watched them spin around in the soapy water.
In just about two weeks, our daughter will arrive. It's
taken a long time for it to feel like it's really going to
happen, but now with the holidays just memories and her non-stop
twists and turns constantly distorting my stomach, her arrival is
nearly tangible. While I've been preparing with the things she
needs, in so many other ways I haven't prepared at all.
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read more about Julie's last two weeks of pregnancy, click
here.