Every day for the past, oh, three weeks, Pumpkin Doodle has asked at least once a day, “Mom, is the baby still in your tummy?” One day last week, she followed up with, “Maybe God knows that we want him – oops, him or her – to come live with us!”
I’m sure there are people [...]

Seriously, if I could find a way to skip the next 3 weeks or so, I’d do it in a heartbeat. I’m sure there are character lessons in trusting God and realizing I can’t control everything to be learned in this period of uncertainty as I wonder whether I’m carrying a healthy baby or just [...]

Well, I’ve been avoiding writing this post for the last week because I have so many thoughts that I’m just not sure how to put into words.
Last week, we found out I’m pregnant again. I am in total denial at this point because I’m just not sure I can handle another miscarriage right now, and [...]

So…while I don’t intend for this to become a pregnancy journal, per se, I do have some random thoughts that I have been wanting to share but have not because we were trying to keep the pregnancy a secret until Christmas…
1. Although this pregnancy wasn’t necessarily in our timing, I’ve never been more excited about [...]

So, it turns out I lied about no big announcements in this year’s Christmas cards…except I didn’t include it because I didn’t know! And I lied again when I said I was going to keep it a secret until we surprised our parents on Christmas with the three pictures above in a frame…because I emailed [...]