Ready.

Today Shayna is 34 weeks pregnant with our second child.  Lots has happened in preparation...birth kits purchased, newborn diapers laid out, bottles sterilized, letters to our baby written, name picked out.  But what has felt particularly profound in this process of preparation is the piece of it that we have not consciously initiated--There was a time when Mama, Ema and Amichai felt like a whole.  it was a short time when that was meant to be, just us three.  Our baby love is growing in Shayna's belly now, minimizing the space left inside, and meanwhile the space in our hearts and lives grow for her on the outside. Suddenly, we are taking on an entirely new shape, as though our family was never actually whole until she arrives.  There is a space for her emotionally and spiritually already, ready to be physically filled in just a few weeks.  It is a bizarre and awesome evolution.