About a year ago, Brady said that he was willing to see what happened. We both prayed about it, and in our hearts believed that God would provide our answer. It was a need of mine to let go and let Him take control. An acknowledgement that everything good in our lives has happened when things didn't go exactly to our plan (see the originally title of this blog: shocked and knocked up:)...lifting the burden of planning everything to the minute.
Warning, TMI coming...in early February, I was a day late and just had a feeling. I was running errands while the kids were at church and decided to buy a test at Target. Normal people would wait until they got home...I'm not normal...I couldn't wait...I took the test in the bathroom (after I paid, of course)...POSITIVE! I called Brady right away and we both just laughed. We had our answer...we were going to have a baby.
I had a rough first trimester...nausea, vomiting, exhaustion...keeping it a secret from the kids was hard. We told them around 8 weeks...we originally wanted to think of a creative way to share, but we're too impulsive. One night at dinner we just couldn't keep it any longer...we turned to the kids and said, "we have a secret to tell you..." Parker's response, "you're pregnant aren't you?" Ha, no fooling that kid. They each called our parents and told them and were so excited...probably Row more than Parker, ha.
In the weeks that followed, our secret was out...I'm pretty sure at least twenty people knew within 24 hours of telling the kids, ha! We also had to find a name to call the baby...we are not finding out the gender so it couldn't be too specific. For a while, Row was calling him/her 'sucker'...all I could think of was 'welcome to the family, sucker!' So, we finally decided on The Rookie. It is the perfect name for this perfect little babe. He/she will be the rookie of our family and the kids are definitely going to show him/her the ropes. Our hearts are so very full.
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