Slivers and Silver Linings

I have been thinking over some of the life lessons that I have learned over my 25 years, here are a few I feel are important, and I hope I can teach my children so they don't have to learn the hard way like I did/have. I'm also the type of person who has to continue to work on my self, so it's not like I've mastered all of these. The Things i'd Like to Teach my Children  1. Judging others leaves very little room to love others, and leaves you feeling exhausted and upset. It isn't our place to judge another person that we don't know, and it's even harder not to judge a person we do know, when we feel their decisions go against our own morals and values. Don't allow yourself to waist your mental energy on this. I am guilty of doing this, and I work on it often. It's hard, but worth it. 2. There are appropriate times to make judgement calls about another persons intentions and character. We all judge, or in better terms assess those who we f...

6 months? how is time going by so fast?!  Update: My bump is growing, it's kind of shocking when I look in the mirror sometimes, like hello belly! the baby has hit a growth spurt during the last part of my 5th month, and it seemed like over the course of two days my belly just popped out. It's kind of fun though to actually look pregnant. My placenta is anterior, which means that it's covering the front part of my uterus, so up until two weeks ago I only felt my little guy move once in a while, but since his growth spurt I've felt him everyday.  The baby kicked so hard that Mark has finally been able to feel him at 22 weeks! The little guy can also make my tummy jump around when he kicks hard. Sometimes his kicks kind of make me jump, it's almost startling if they're hard enough. He also kicks my bladder sometimes, and that's a weird sensation, I don't ever worry that i'll pee my pants ( yet, hopefully that doesn't change) but it definitel...