Hello relatable listeners. Happy Monday. I hope that everyone had a wonderful Easter weekend. Maybe you're with your family. I was in Georgia with my husband's family where we have 11. I think I have to count this correctly in my head because we have a new addition.

We have 11 nieces and nephews. My husband has two sisters that are older than him six and eight years older than him. And I have two brothers that are older than me. And so we are the last ones to be adding to the grandchild situation.

So they're already done on his side 11 grandkids. And on my parent side, there's two. And so we're adding the first girl on my parent side. There's lots of girls on my husband side. And so once we are done having children, it will be madness at holidays. It's already kind of madness in the best way possible. I mean that in the most wonderful way possible.

But it's already kind of madness with all the children running around. Once we add our like three or four, however many we have, it's going to be it's going to be chaos. But these are the fun times. I didn't really have a ton of cousins my age when I was growing up in both my brothers were so much older than me.

And so I really I always wish that I had that. And so I hope that our kids that they have sibling that are close and age and that they have cousins that are kind of close and age. They're going to be younger than most of their cousins, but that they have people to play with and hang out with and that they actually look forward to the holidays because I think that's really fun. And so we kind of got a little taste of that, even though of course our child is here yet. We got another taste of that this weekend got to meet my nephew for the first time. So that's exciting.

I mean, had my first baby shower. So all of that is great. And of course, as you guys know, I am really excited that it is now warm outside. I've said it before I will say it again. I would rather be drenched in sweat as soon as I step outside at 8 a.m. And be able to fry an angle on the sidewalk.

Then have to wear a sweater. I hate the cold. I would rather it be sweltering hot, not even be able to get in the pool because it feels like bathwater than what it is in the winter. I do not like the cold weather. I know I'm probably going to be going back on this in a couple of weeks when it's absolutely unbearable.

Like when you have a heat rash as soon as you step out the door, but I'm really excited. And it's also crazy. I know I'm kind of ranting at the beginning of this. We're going to talk about more substantive stuff. I'll just go ahead and tell you we're going to talk about a little bit about the resurrection. And then I might answer some of your theological questions.

Although the ones that you guys hit me, I'm like shoot. I need to I really need to study those. I can't just answer those off the bat. So you guys have really good complex questions.

Then I'm going to tell you a thing I don't get, which is really just if you've never heard of before. It's just kind of like a pet peeve. So we're going to talk about substantive stuff. But right now I'm just kind of

ranting about what's on my mind. What was I even talking about? It's talking about the weather. Oh yeah, that it's the end of April, which is crazy because I always told myself, okay, April is the time that I'm going to start getting things together for my child. We're going to start making her nursery.

We're going to get everything that we need to get. So we are fully prepared by May 1st. Well, I just want to take a second to last at myself for thinking that I was going to be so proactive. See, this is what the life of a procrastinator is.

You say that you are going to do all of this stuff because you go to bed every Sunday night and you think, okay, this is the week. This is the week that I'm really going to get it together. And that I'm not going to wait until the last

minutes to do something. And then you find yourself like I do every week, writing a chapter of your book at 2 a.m. rather than doing it in the afternoon when you're supposed to do it. And you find yourself at the end of April, not having really done anything for your child that's about to be here.

Now, we're not in like a totally disastrous situation. We've got some stuff. We're working on it. We just still have to paint her nursery before we can actually put anything together. And so that's what we're going to do for these last couple of months.

As you guys know, I'm working on a book that's going to come out in 2020. We don't know the exact date yet. And I don't want to spoil what exactly it's about. But it is very much a mix of theology and culture and how we can

combat some of the common lies that we're seeing from this glorified narcissism that is constantly being fed to us by, by influential influencers on social media as well as pastors from the pulpit. And so you can be expected of that. But that's also what I'm working on. So that's kind of detracting from me getting ready for our first child to be here.

So I do I have a lot going on right now, but I love it. It's a I'm not complaining. It's a really good and fun time of life. My husband and I are enjoying spending these last couple of months together when we actually can get a little bit of sleep from what I've heard from many, many moms that I know is that these are probably like the last normal night of sleep that I may ever have in my life.

If you guys who are moms or anything like my mom, I still don't think she gets a normal night's sleep. All of her children are grown. But I still think that she probably wakes up in the middle of the night thinking, are my kids okay? Are they making the right choices? And she worries about, you know, something about my career. She worries about something about my brother, whatever it is, you're constantly thinking about your kids for the rest of your life. And that's kind of crazy to think about. That's actually like the second you get pregnant. Second, you pee on a stick and you see, oh my gosh. That says,

pregnant, your mind and your life is totally consumed with something that you didn't even realize existed five seconds before and it never changes. That's crazy. Have an even fully experienced that needless to say, I'm really excited about my child to be here. I'm so excited to meet her. Once you're kind of in these last weeks, I have about.

Like, I don't know, seven to nine or no, I think it's like eight to 10 weeks left about, yeah, I'm a little over 30 weeks. And so yeah, about eight to 10 weeks, just depending.

And I'm really excited to meet her. Once you get in this time, you're just like, okay, can I stop being pregnant? That would be great. I saw my grandmother the other day and I can say this because she doesn't listen to this podcast. I don't think she knows what a podcast is. She's sweet. I love her so much.

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