California Countdown

(Sunflower field near Davis, CA)

The clock is ticking for the time I have left in California.  This week and next are the last weeks I'm allowed to fly during my pregnancy, then I'll be home the whole month of September until baby arrives! This is definitely time of excitement and joy, but also bittersweet. 

The past year has just been a really amazing time for my husband and I to be together and form an even stronger bond as husband and wife. We really are each other's "best buds" and I'm so grateful for this experience to travel together, enjoy some serious sunshine, cook, blog!, and fall in love with swimming all over again. Not to mention have the opportunity to grow a healthy, strong baby. 

Things I'm going to really miss: driving my husband to and from work every day, the hot air balloons overhead every morning, my naps on our comfy apartment couch, chatting with my coach Karen, and the friendly "hello's" from the grocery clerks at the local Nugget Market.  

(Said comfy couch)

We're both so excited to meet little Baby C, and yet at the same time I think we're savoring these last weeks as just the two of us. Not knowing what it's like to have another person to be responsible for, not having to plan ahead when going out for a date, trying to sleep as much as we can!

Anyone else experience similar feelings in the last weeks before their baby arrived? Any tips, advice, words of reassurance? :)