Month: January 2011

Now, this child was entirely unplanned, you see. This was a go-back-to-the-calendar, count-up-the-days, scratch-your-head, then sit-down-and-freak-out unplanned. I’ve had to work to forgive myself for the next part. I cried. I cried for 3 days. In fact, I sobbed. I did not plan for this child. I was exhausted with the two I had. We were…

So our second son was not really planned. Or really, not expected to happen so soon in several ways. I mean, it takes 4 years for the first one and the second just decides that he’d really like to join the party as soon as possible. As many women know, it was quite difficult to…

After having four miscarriages, I relished being pregnant. God knew what He was doing much better than I did. Even the bad parts of pregnancy were like music to my ears. The sick and throwing up part – just a bonus. I understood that the sickness came from the pregnancy hormones that rage through a…