You do the math....

So today people will begin to receive a very interesting card from our family.......

Yes, folks...if you can't do math or figure out the card, Tim and I are expecting baby #3 into our family coming this Nov!

You're surprised?

HA! Me too!

Please don't get me wrong, we are very happy to have a healthy heartbeat and be blessed by God with another little life in our home. However, we were not trying to get pregnant and in no ways planning on this new addition, so it came as a shock when after the stomach bug hit our home I was a few days late and in an effort to appease my husband's fears I succumbed to a test and the little stripes went from a straight line to a bright + sign!

Oi! When we found out in mid-February about this news we were in some serious denial. Me more than Tim. I think he was more excited than I was, and my freaking out just freaked him out. So much so that we kept it under wraps til now, a couple weeks into April. A huge wave of fear seriously felt like it was going to engulf me. Really, God this was not in the plan book for this year!? Didn't you get the memo, Lord!?

I had just begun a hard core workout training session at the gym to regain control of my body....I was on the down side of nursing and looking forward to not sharing my body with another human again. I was contemplating possibly going to work again if my parents came back home so as to help us out financially. How is this going to be ok now?

After the denial passed, He started to remind me that I am SO not in control of my life and His plans are far more perfect for my life than what I may plan. So with that I take comfort.

And when I think about it....really honestly let my heart ponder all this....I know in the depth of my heart how wonderful a new child will be for us. Even if the timing is not what we would have chosen. That God is the only giver of life and for Him to entrust us with a new life is a great honor and privilege. That if this is my "complaint" then I am foolish. My fears and concerns are truly rooted more in my selfishness than in anything. That this sweet child is so precious and totally necessary to the completion of our family, so much so that God would interrupt our comfy, cozy lives to show us how much we need this babe.

And if you missed my sharing the story with you before, MJD has for months, been talking about wanting another baby in our family. Not a lot more, just one, he says. He even made it his wish at school a while back and came home with a project that said...."Twinkle, Twinkle, little star. If I could have one wish.....I want Mommy to have one more baby."
No joke, folks. Apparently I shouldn't have laughed back then! Cause God certainly heard his wish. And yes, he is just now finding out about the baby. Tim wanted to wait till we had a heartbeat before sharing the news with folks and we knew if we told MJD, then he'd tell the world.

Our little crew of 4 is now soon going to become a posse of 5. Thankfully I can fit 3 car seats in my car, (yes, that first week I learned about the new baby, I insisted Tim arrange the car to check!) we have bunk beds in MJD's room already, and if it's a boy again then we are well stocked in the world of Cars and Matchbox trucks. And should we be given a girl then our little world will be turned upside down with pigtails and paisley, I've always wanted to shop for a little girl. (On a side note.....I have had terrible all day morning sickness that makes me feel horribly miserable and requires medication...... I read online that women with such symptoms were 50% more likely to have girls....so maybe we will have some pigtails in this house after all. But either way, it's quite ok.)

(If you are reading this and you are an out of town follower....and haven't had a card show up, sorry to ruin the surprise. Your card should be there by Monday!)