Impatience lending way to gratitude

My kids have finally gotten to the point where they are easy to leave with a babysitter. Every time, just before I have a baby, I feel like I make it to a good spot, and then it quickly changes.  Nicolina and I finally got our temple trips worked out, we each trade off watching each others kids so we have opportunity to go to the temple. I am developing new a love for the temple and for the peace and perspective I leave with.

I have been so impatient lately... Impatient to have this baby (I am now 36 weeks). Impatient to move (our contract is up on our town home mid June)... Impatient to get back to Utah... Impatient, wanting everything I want right now (a nice house, fenced yard, garage, big kitchen, more space, family...)

I listened again to Elder Uchtdorf's talk about living in the spirit of gratitude, and having gratitude in our situation, an overall attitude of gratitude. And after going to the temple I left with a feeling of peace. A peace that took the place of my impatience.  I know everything will work out the way it is meant to. The baby will come when he is ready. We will be able to figure out appropriate housing. And I have realized that life is good here in Virginia. We have great friends, we live in a wonderful area, and I am happy in my situation right now: pregnant, unsure of what the next months will bring, and all. I feel at peace. It's wonderful that the temple could do that for me. Talk about a blessing!

Spending time at the temple while I am pregnant is neat because the blessings promised to me and my posterity seem very literal. The link between earth and heaven seems nearer. And I want to understand better this role I have as mother. These priceless gifts I am given... These precious babies come straight from that holy place, heaven, coming directly from the God who created and loves us, as a gift to me; to mother, to love, to teach here on Earth, so that we can then return back to that place again, and live eternally in God's presence.  Isn't this our purpose in life?  What a wonderful opportunity I have as a mother to assist God with his plan, giving his spirit children a body, and then helping them return back to Him. I hope that I can keep this vision, and that I can feel the nearness of heaven when this baby boy enters our life.