After reading my last post, I realized it might come off as a bit negative. The past 2 months have certainly not been the easiest months of my life, but I am delighted that God has answered the prayers of so many people who knew about our trouble getting pregnant.
Any pregnancy is a miracle. A whole baby develops from just a single cell. Amazing! When things get hard, I just remind myself that there is a reward waiting at the end of all this.
Do you ever get those ‘we miss you’ emails from some store you haven’t shopped at in a while? I’m not going to offer you 20% off your next purchase, or anything terribly exciting like that. Now is just the time for me to post a note to tell you what I have been up to for the past few months.
The last I posted with any regularity was WAY BACK in March! I can’t believe how time has flown by.
I spent half of March sick with a cold that I just couldn’t shake. Then I went on vacation for a week to visit my parents in Georgia. When I got back, I relapsed with that nasty cold.
On April 3, life took a huge turn when I decided on a whim to take a pregnancy test and it turned up positive! After trying for a year and a half and accepting that we would likely just adopt…well, I walked around in a daze for 2 days.
April was spent recovering from that cold while descending into the depths of morning sickness. Most of April and about half of May was spent laying on the couch thinking, “There must be another way.”
With a baby on the way, and summer coming into full swing, Brenton and I decided that it was time to move out of our tiny 1 bedroom apartment. On May 15 we found a comfortable 2 bedroom duplex to move into and one week later we had cleaned out the old apartment and gotten completely moved.
Now I am in the process of unpacking boxes and planning a small garden for our new yard, all the while trying not to overdo it and get sick again. Now that I can get off the couch without feeling sick, I plan on getting back to my blogging because I miss it so.
This is all a blessing and a testament to God’s perfect plan, and since winter is officially over, I’m headed out to soak up some sunshine.
There was a young girl and her mom in a dressing room while I was perusing the clothes racks looking for some new summer tops. The girl sounded like she was about 5 or 6 years old.
Girl: “That one is so pretty, Momma! You should get it.”
Mom (sighing): “Unfortunantly, it’s too big for me.”
Girl: “Maybe you could buy it now and grow into it next year.“
Sometimes I can just feel God smiling down on me. Yesterday, we secured a new rental. The new apartment is a cute 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment. It is full of light and sunshine. I can’t decide if I am most excited about having a washer and dryer, a dishwasher, or a full bathtub (our current apartment only has a shower stall).
Yesterday, after I took advantage of that bathtub, I was laying out on the back porch of the new apartment drying my hair in the setting sun. The backyard was alive with birds chirping. The tulips in the flower beds are pushing up through the leaves that were raked over them last fall.
In the lot next door, some movement caught my eye. For the next 20 minutes, I sat and watched two feisty hummingbirds fighting over a plum tree in bloom. As the sun set behind the mountains, I could feel God smiling.
Journeying Forward presents From Brokenness to Wine - Let Him Squeeze posted at Journeying Forward, saying, “A reminder that brokenness is useful in the hands of our mighty God…”
Theresa L. Twogood presents Big Picture Progressive Exposure posted at OLIN e-Book e-Publishing.
Malia Russell presents I Love You More from Homemaking 911 posted at Homemaking 911.
Violette DeSantis presents Making a Christian Home posted at her christian blog.
Laura Williams presents Enchilada Casserole posted at Laura Williams’ Musings.
Jessica Jones presents Confessions of a Mother posted at Practical Nourishment.
Mother Hen presents Wholesome Christian Adventure posted at Ship Full O’ Pirates.
Heather Hendrick presents Sit a Spell: 7 day challenge posted at Sit a Spell. This is a 7-post series recording one woman’s week long journey into loving and respecting her husband.
GP presents Uplifted When I just Keep Singin? posted at Innstyle Montana- Come on Inn, saying, “Singing worship songs brings the L-rd closer in everything we’re doing”
Alli Diller presents Business Lessons from the ‘Wife of Noble Character’ posted at God & Mammon, saying, “Contrary to many Christian stereotypes of proper female behavior, this passage does not depict the virtuous and praiseworthy wife as a submissive homebody whose SOLE purpose in life is to raise children and do dishes.”
Malia Russell presents Affair Proof Your Marriage » Homemaking 911 posted at Homemaking 911.
Kaye presents Does God Want Me to Be a Loaf? posted at Mrs Nespy’s World, saying, “Is God speaking or is it me?”
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