Don't know who knows me who's actually reading this.  For those of you who do know me, you've been reading my baby updates on my Facebook profile.  But to give this blog some attention, I'll write a little something.

On Tuesday, the last day of June, I'll be in my last trimester, my seventh month, my twenty-eighth week of pregnancy.  At the end of last month, Gregg and I found out we're having a girl.  Just for fun, I checked out a baby gender predictor on thebump.com today and the result was a girl. 

In our first year of marriage, just for fun, I looked up baby names on thinkbabynames.com.  I was actually Googling the meaning of a friend's name, and that site came up as a search result.  You could search names by meanings and I thought it would be cool to give our possible future daughter a name that meant "faithful" since it seems to be one of those characteristics we see less of in our world today.  One of the results was "Leala" and it was of French origin.  I'm part French Canadian, so I thought it was the perfect name.  [laughs] Through a friend's Facebook comment I found out that "Leala" was a popular girl's name in... I think 1880; sometime in the 1800's.  I did find this to be true on a baby name website today.  Maybe that's the website where she found out that information.  Gregg liked the name "Heart" for a girl, so our daughter's name will be Leala Heart Fields.  All the meanings I've found for "Leala" from the different baby name websites have been "loyal, faithful, loyal one".

My original due date was on my birthday, September 22.  A couple different ultrasounds predicted September 17 and 16.  I had a dream that I had a baby girl with golden hair on September 19, which this year, is on the Jewish holiday, Rosh Hashanah.  I thought that was interesting.  It was just a dream, but maybe it will turn out to be a prophecy.  Okay, feel special because I didn't share that on my Facebook.

Gregg and I have had fun registering for baby things.  My friend is throwing me a baby shower at the end of next month.  Preparing for the baby to come helps me look forward to the actual day of labor.  I don't know what to expect entirely, but I keep telling myself that plenty of women have done it and survived.  Not to mention the women who have done it several times.  It's a sobering reality what a big responsibility a child is.  I mean, this is for life.  I daydream sometimes about ways I can be a good mom and other times I think about the fact that I'm not going to be perfect.  But I'm confident with God's help to live selflessly, I'll do a pretty decent job.

Mark 9:50 Salt [is] good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one another."

John 13:14 If I then, [your] Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.

John 13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

John 13:35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."

John 15:12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

John 15:17 These things I command you, that you love one another.

Romans 12:10 [Be] kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another;

Romans 12:16 Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion.

Romans 13:8 Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Romans 14:13 Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in [our] brother's way.

Romans 14:19 Therefore let us pursue the things [which make] for peace and the things by which one may edify another.

Romans 15:5 Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus,

Romans 15:7 Therefore receive one another, just as Christ also received us, to the glory of God.

Romans 15:14 Now I myself am confident concerning you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

1 Corinthians 6:7 Now therefore, it is already an utter failure for you that you go to law against one another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather [let yourselves] be cheated?

Galatians 5:13 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not [use] liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Galatians 5:15 But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another!

Galatians 5:26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

Galatians 6:2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Ephesians 4:2 with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love,

Ephesians 4:25 Therefore, putting away lying, "[Let] each one [of you] speak truth with his neighbor," for we are members of one another.

Ephesians 4:32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

Ephesians 5:19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

Ephesians 5:21 submitting to one another in the fear of God.

Colossians 3:9 Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds,

Colossians 3:13 bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also [must do].

Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 3:12 And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as we [do] to you,

1 Thessalonians 4:9 But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;

1 Thessalonians 5:11 Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.

Hebrews 3:13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Hebrews 10:24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,

Hebrews 10:25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as [is] the manner of some, but exhorting [one another], and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

James 4:11 Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

James 5:9 Do not grumble against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned.  Behold, the Judge is standing at the door!

James 5:16 Confess [your] trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

1 Peter 1:22 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,

1 Peter 3:8 Finally, all [of you be] of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, [be] tenderhearted, [be] courteous;

1 Peter 4:8 And above all things have fervent love for one another, for "love will cover a multitude of sins."*

1 Peter 4:9 [Be] hospitable to one another without grumbling.

1 Peter 4:10 As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

1 Peter 5:5 Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to [your] elders. Yes, all of [you] be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for "God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble."

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

1 John 4:12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.