It's been a great week! (I'm writing from little sleep so enjoy!)

The last week has been amazing. I've had the opportunity to spend some extra time with my wife in time leading up to the new arrival of our first child, Zoë Harlow. I've done a lot of thinking and I realize that I have been in a season of maturity leading up to this point and it's a continual thing. It's only by God's grace and design that I believe this is happening and I thank him for it. It's amazing how you can go weeks or even days and realize that your thought process has changed or is changing and for the better. As I've said in the past, I pray very often that I be the best servant of God, husband, son, friend and (now) father that I can be and God is hearing me. I'm learning to not try to control the way I am molded in these ways because I honestly feel because I'm a perfectionist in many ways, I get in the way of what God is trying to use to mature me.
The process of God had helped me to fall in love with my wife even more and I'm so grateful for a beautiful and wonderful wife. Not everyone has the privilege of waking up next to someone that makes them smile just at the sight of them. I'm blessed to have that "good thing" that is more than a pretty face but that walks with me, grows with me, challenges me, appreciates me and welcomes the same from me in return. I am truly blessed.
Now that the time is here for Zoë it's overwhelming to see that God has blessed us with everything that we've prayed for that we need for the baby and more and to see so much support from so many people has put me in awe. I believe she's going to be special like the ones that have gone before us, and those that have taught us. She'll definitely be strong, wise and beautiful like her mom.
I have no idea what Zoë is going to look like and it's a weird feeling that I guess only a parent can describe. We have been ready to meet this busy little person in my wife's stomach and I pray that she's more dependent on God, talented, loving, sweet, and fun to be around than we are.
I'm thanking God in advance for our sweet child and life from here. All of this had changed in my heart the more amount of energy that I should put into what God is putting in my heart to do. Life doesn't end with children; it's the beginning of a new era. The countdown is almost over.