The Lord has a sense of humor!

As I mentioned in my first post, I had a miscarriage a year ago.  From the beginning, the ultrasounds didn't show much in the way of life.  I had a talk with my doctor at my follow-up on exactly what it takes to become pregnant.  We tried but no baby.  This may be a bit personal and you'll begin yelling, "T M I!" by the time I'm done, but stick with me here.  Sean and I haven't used anything to prevent pregnancy for about 8 1/2 years.  Of course, 8 1/2 years ago I was a lot younger and better prepared to chase little ones.  We know, we know, we know that we are to follow this through until our little Judah is home with us!  I desired to be stronger and better fit for my little guy, wanting him to have the healthiest parents he could and have lots of play dates and shared giggles!

About a month ago I started eating healthier, following  the South Beach Diet way of eating.  Over a period of 2+ weeks, I had lost 10 pounds!  My family began to notice a difference in my face and my clothes were allowing me to breathe once again.  However, it was so strange, I couldn't seem to loose any more weight - not one single pound.  So weird!  So I added exercising, to which I don't recommend to anyone who wants to move without groaning - and still no loss of weight!

Now let's talk about this week... Deep breathe, Michelle.

Monday afternoon I went out with my youngest, Joy, to look for fall shoes.  I stopped by the pharmacy to pick up medicine for Sean and a little something for me.  Just a little something, something I didn't want my reading daughter to know about.  Usually that means I'm sneaking a candy bar or a bag of chips or a Diet Cream Soda, but not this time...  This time I was sneaking a pregnancy test!  In the Lord's great, enormous sense of humor, Sean and I find ourselves adopting AND pregnant!

I spent Monday and Tuesday in shock, keeping the news between Sean and I only.  By Wednesday I had built up enough courage to call my family doctor and say out loud that I was pregnant.  We had a good visit (unfortunately didn't hear a heart beat because we're guessing I was only 4 weeks along) and was referred to an OB doctor.  By Thursday afternoon, I had started bleeding...I felt like it was last year all over again!  My family doctor got an appointment for me the very next morning with the OB.  My sweet little Joy gathered together the family that evening and we read Psalm 139 and prayed.  I love hearing my children and husband pray, such a balm to my hurting heart!

Yesterday was a much anticipated day.  It didn't sound like, in talking to them on the phone, that we were  going to be told much due to the fact that I was so early.  Not exactly the reassuring news we wanted to hear.  After going back and forth with a calendar, it was possible that I was a little farther along.  So Dr. M decided to just go ahead with the ultrasound.  Praise God we did because clear as day was our little baby!  Right where "she" is suppose to be, heart beating so her mommy and daddy can cry with thanksgiving to a wonderful Lord!  I am 7 weeks, 2 days along and feeling wonderfully sick and blessedly tired!  Our little baby is due May 24, 2012.

So, I chuckle at the idea of bringing home two children next year... oh, how God loves to make me laugh!  Our little Judah will be a big brother before he even realizes it! 

Keith, I close with these verses just for you in calling Sean and I "Abraham and Sarah!" 

"Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, 'I am God Almighty; walk before Me, and be blameless.  And I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly.' ... Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; Sarah was past childbearing.  And the Lord said, 'Is anything too difficult for the Lord?' ... Then the Lord took note of Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had promised.  So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time"  ~Genesis 17:1, 2; 18:11, 14; 21:1, 2

(Hope you are laughing with us in our great joy to witness a powerful God 

for which NOTHING is too difficult!)