BABY SHOWER!

I've lived in Nashville for 9 years this month and through these 9 years I have met a lot of really wonderful, sweet and creative people. Some of them I get to see fairly often and some, never enough. But whenever there are big life events, I get to see lots of them all in the same place and it is just really wonderful. Last weekend was one such event: my baby shower! It was so lovely and the details were so thought out. I couldn't have asked for anything better and I left feeling so blessed and grateful for the amazing group of girls I have to call my friends.

The most touching detail was this chalkboard:

This hasn't been the easiest pregnancy. In fact, not even close. It's been more challenging than I ever could have anticipated. I'm naturally an anxious person; I've known this about myself for years. I could worry the horns off a bull. Well, being pregnant and having to rely solely on faith that your child will be healthy and grow as they should hasn't been an easy task. I'm fully aware that this comes from a lack of faith on my part for which I am to blame. But, man, it's tough. Especially when the doctor is telling you that your baby is dropping in percentile and that your body may not be giving it the nutrients it needs and that there is nothing you could have done to prevent it, it just is. Even more so when complete strangers and friends alike are constantly making the same comment: "wow, you're so small!" And you know what? Normally, I would LOVE to hear that. But when you're 5, 6, & then 7 months pregnant...it feels different, it feels like a bad thing. Because I am small, and it's not completely normal, and I. don't. have. any. control. over. it. 

While I was in Michigan with my family a few weeks back my mom and I were out shopping at some little boutiques and we found the cutest little pink wooden plaque with the quote:

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

Thankfully since then, our prayers were heard and answered and our little girl jumped back up to a higher percentile. She's still not a big baby, but she's healthy and that is all that matters. When I walked in and saw what they had written on the chalkboard, my eyes immediately filled with tears...tears of gratitude because she IS fierce and growing and tears of benevolence that my friends thought to include the sentiment.

xo, 

kayla