Grateful for my blessings!

As I read over my last post I realized I made a lot of typo's and grammatical errors because I was typing so fast. I will try to write a little more carefully this post because I am too lazy to fix mistakes from the last one, ha ha :).

So it turns out that the library computers will not let me access anything from my hard drive... thus no pictures. BUT, Ronald and I decided to buy another laptop and will be getting it this week! Although we would rather not have to pay for another one we were blessed to get a great deal on it. Ron's brother was really nice on helping us get the great deal! We decided that it is something that will make things a lot more convenient with Ron's schooling and all the day-to-day things we need/want to get done.

Last week there was lots of misc. items to take care of when we moved into our new house. We were also working on getting our military ID's taken cared of and getting a doctors appointment set up because I haven't been seen for a while. It was a tender mercy that we were able to set up an appointment WITHOUT my military ID! That is basically impossible and the Lord helped us find a loop whole. We didn't have our marriage certificate at the time :S, which is obviously SUPER important because without it, no ID for me as Ron's dependent (that's what they call us non-military family people). We were blessed to be able to get my ID shortly after (we ordered a new marriage certificate and it came in faster then we thought it would) :)!

After our appointment, some testing, and an ultrasound (which was yesterday and we were actually lucky to get it so soon!) the doctor left a message last night that I needed to do more testing. I talked to her this morning and they want me to repeat the glucose diabetes test as well as the urine test (unfortunately didn't get a clean catch), they want to make sure I don't have a UTI (because I had one early on in my pregnancy) and I guess my results for the diabetes test were questionable so now I have to drink a bunch of sugar again and not eat anything for 3 hours afterwards instead of 1. Staussen looks really healthy and good from the ultrasound. The only thing is that he is on the smaller side... 29th percentile they said. So I will be getting a lot more ultrasounds regularly and other stuff to make sure he is on track. They said his individual measurements were normal but overall he was smaller. I'm hoping, though, that means he doesn't have the diabetes thing because the doctor said those babies are big... Anyway, I guess I am a little worried but I feel comforted that he will be fine and the Lord is here to help. And for those that are worried about me exercising too much... don't worry, I have stopped :) (since a few weeks ago) and the doctor told me today that I can't exercise so I will listen because I would rather be safe then sorry.

The reason the title of my post is about being "grateful for blessings" is because I have been taking them for granted! Last week was a lot busier then the last and there has been so much on my mind and to-do list that I haven't taken the time to slow down and ponder my blessings. I also have been letting my emotions take over more easily lately.  I let worries and doubts creep into my mind about being a parent. Even though I really love Maryland and the new life we are starting here, I still have to pinch myself sometimes to see if this is real because life is just so different and my responsibilities are changing. But it is great, of course, because I know that change is a necessary thing in our life so we can improve and learn :).

The thing that I am most grateful for is the Gospel of Jesus Christ and for the scriptures that help remind me again and again about the plan of salvation. I am grateful for the reminder to NOT FORGET the importance of the basics... Who I am, why I am here and where I am going. Even though I know them in my mind, it's very easy to forget to remember and apply them in my heart. Especially when everyday distractions, personal weaknesses and opposition comes. Today in my scripture study I was reading about Alma talking to his son Corianton (I was reading this in the Book of Mormon student manual) and also his two other sons. I thought it was very insightful how Alma realized that Corianton's testimony was weak on the subject of salvation and that was the root to the problem. That gave me a lot of insight into my own life and how the plan of salvation really is the root to solving ALL our problems. I loved the commentary in the manual about parenting. It was expounded upon how each son was different and alma approached them all differently. However, he did emphasize to all of them to "remember! remember!" the Lord's goodness to His children. The scriptures help us to remember our blessings! I'm very grateful for the scriptures and how they help me in my life.