Is it thanksgiving?

Because I feel very thankful for what I have.

Maybe it is the hormones talking but I feel euphoric at times (mostly when Im lying down, sometimes I almost forget I have a 3 kilo baby in my belly!) and happy.

Could it be because of the new gadget my lovely hubby gave me last week- you might think he was annoyed me being too much on the internet all the time... but NOooo, on the contrary, he now makes sure I live (almost) a total virtual life through my brand new IPHONE!!! Hehe. I have to say, I would not have thought it was such a great tool, you can do alot of things with it (except maybe washing up and give birth ;)) but I am happy with checking out news, uploading pictures straight to Flickr, be notified when I get a new email in my inbox or messages on Facebook and so much more. And it just looks so cool! Oh without forgetting, finally I hear when the phone rings, which can be handy.

But I gather the main reason I feel so thankful is that I have alot to be thankful for (miss emotion is back).

I am very happy we moved to the city of the happy people, of course we miss Paris sometimes but you can love Paris, without living there (and I actually think it is a pre-requisite for loving it) and I am glad we have a fine situation. Of course I hope to find an interesting job come autumn and that I will finally manage to speak danish properly (about other things than faulty pregnancies, food or family). But that's another time's worry.

I am happy the hubby likes his job (but loves his family more), that he is such a fantastic dad and that our little son is so amazing. Of course any parent would say that about their first born and I would be lying to you if I said it's always so easy (but wait for it... this is probably nothing in comparison to what is to come!), his fever pitches every weekend should worry us, but they dont because no matter what, this little champ keeps smiling and laughing.

I also think a little rash or a night wakening every now and then needs to be put into perspective. My dear friends are battling leukemia in their 3 year old and are so wonderful to keep a blog about it, so friends and family can follow them and send their thoughts. They are truly amazing, have always been so strong and united no matter what goes on and are true heros. They have been my inspiration in family matters and upraising and I think that if they can go through such a hard time with a smile on their face, we would be wrong not to. We can be worried about our little unborn but other friends deal with harder news and might be facing their child coming into the world way too early so the only thing we can do is to be there for them and remind them (and ourselves) that worst-case scenarios do not always come true, in fact much more rarely than we think, people just talk about them more often than about the good and perfect times.

So that's why I wanted to say I am truly thankful - and although a perfect time would have maybe included a tiny bit of fresh air and little walks - we are pretty darn close. Now little baby brother needs to arrive as safe as possible and we will keep on reminding ourselves how lucky we are, even though the neighbours have a party until 6 a.m during the weekend, we can't go on vacation to the Seychelles this summer or I won't become America's next top model. (too much TV!)

Because in the big scheme of things, these things really do not matter.