I'm feeling very emotional today.  Perhaps it's the extreme fatigue or maybe it's just a sense of deep gratitude coursing through me.  I feel so blessed to love what I do enough to expend every ounce of energy I have and then look forward to doing it again...just maybe not tonight ;)


It's been a pretty amazing week. 

Today I registered for the workshop in Bali with Robin Lim, founder of Bumi Sehat.  It's official!  I'm going to Bali!  Thank you again to my MOST amazing husband for the gift of a lifetime! Baby, you are the BEST!

I was blessed to doula for a former HypnoFertility client, HypnoBirthing student, amazing woman and friend.  The talented Tricia from www.clickcapturecreate.com was present for the ENTIRE birthing process to capture this emotional, exhausting and amazing birth.  My heart is incredibly full.  Laboring at home with this strong mother-to-be and seeing the fertility nest that I made her almost 3 years ago in the bedroom where we labored quietly was so touching.  Bearing witness to an amazing couple realizing their dream of becoming parents is something that I honestly cannot put into words.

                                                                      Meet beautiful Serena!
    


I finished teaching my current group of HypnoBirthing students last night.  (To my students,  I should apologize again for my sleep deprived ramblings in the hopes that you felt my passion and allowed it to inspire you.  Two days without sleep and a long emotion filled birth makes for a bit of a kooky Lorie.) Two mothers came to share their birth stories with the class.  I think that I was inspired as much as my class by hearing the heartfelt testimonials for gentle birth.  Thank you Cindy Marler for sharing both of your birth stories and the embarrassing plugs for my services. 

                                                           The Class! (minus two couples)

And now, I'm looking forward to the weekend.  I've got 90 coconuts shells waiting to be transformed into candles and a bit of a baby pileup.  This will not be a quiet weekend and that's just fine with me!