2 Birds with 1 post

So I have an ongoing list of all these amusing, at least to me, amusing happenings in my life that I want to journal about so that I don't forget them. I was looking back over the list and realized how behind I was when I saw my notes about my excitement one of my sisters just found out she is pregnant. Long story short...she had the baby yesterday.

I enjoyed getting to watch her grow and her excitement about having another baby. Her 1st boy is now 10 years old. This pregnancy has been such a gift to her. Her 1st pregnancy was when she was barely 17 years old. We grew up in a Christian home and I will never forget the night that all us sat at the table with her while she told mom and dad and cried in shame. My parents handled it so much more graciously than I had feared and supported her completely. It was nothing glamorous. She was still trying to attend school and work at Pizza Hut in the evening. I can remember just days before she had Austin seeing her button her pants by attaching a rubber band around the button to give her more room. She hadn't bought any maternity. She was still trying to hide it best she could. Allen and I not even married yet had talked about raising the baby until she was older as adoption was discussed but she wanted to keep him so badly before she ever even saw him. She has been a wonderful mother, so much fun and truly gives herself to Austin. This time Debi has a great job and has just the cutest maternity clothes you can imagine.

Last weekend I had the joy of getting to spend time with our other sister preparing the baby shower for Debi. It was beautiful and she had 45 women attend and bless her with the most precious of baby items. What was even better was just seeing Debi loved on and the baby doted on this time. She didn't have a single shower last time. Now this time she is having 2 showers. I get sick thinking of how even after the baby was conceived that the sin of a single action forever scarred and robbed all of us of the joy of a new life. God knew this was to happen. He says every child is a blessing yet we all were so hush hush and when we would say that yes she was pregnant it was always with the loom of embarrassment. I can only imagine how Debi herself felt. So young and scared and now ashamed from the pregnancy and what people must be thinking of our parents.

Now I didn't have kids when she had Austin so there is a lot of hindsight as to things we could have down for her. How we should have pampered her and been just as excited about the gift of a precious baby. Austin was born on my birthday and Allen and I were married 2 days later (elope style). This past year Debi married Daniel and they have a new baby girl to share this new life of theirs. I look forward to seeing her soon.

New Addition

Our lives have changed drastically and been blessed more than we can verbalize in the last 2 weeks with our new addition to our household. Wyatt Cole was born Feb 16th at 6:04 pm. He weighed in at 7lbs 6ozs and was 19 inches long. He is so adorable and handsome. He's my little sweet potato. Although he isn't willing to nurse, which means extra time pumping and cleaning items, it is all worth it. I can hardly lay him down, I just want to hold and kiss on him. What is it about babies? When Allen and I were dating I tried to break up with him at one point because his desire to have children. I felt like that wasn't something I wanted in my future and didn't want to take that away from him. However, here we are 4 little ones later. As soon as the nurse laid him on my chest, I cried and thanked the Lord for another precious gift. What have I done to deserve such a blessing? There are days I don't know why God ever thought I would make a good parent, days when it seems I make one parenting mistake after another. Yet there in my arms, is a little quivering body, taking in his 1st breathes, crying. I have felt a special calling on this little man early on, knowing he is fully the Lord's child just here on loan to me for the time being. I do not know what great things the Lord has in store for each of our children, but I pray I do my best at leading them to Him. Just hours after Wyatt, I told Allen I thought I could do this one more time. I still tear up just looking at him, seeing him for the miracle he is and realizing how fast he'll grow up. The last 2 weeks have been a blur, and I am sure the next several weeks to months will be also. I however, do not look forward this time to getting back into the routine of things, after all, we are in the routine of life now. We are in the routine of loving, holding, feeding and sharing this precious little life. All the kids love him and think he is so cute and want to do anything they can to spend time with him. Thank you Lord for the blessings you give, thank you for your ways and plans being predominant over my futile thinking of what might be best, thank you for allowing me this chance to be a mom and care for your little ones.