Catching Up

Oh my, since September, it has been a whirlwind of activity. We finished up telethon, tried to get in some type of school routine for few weeks. Then we made our annual trip to Richmond, VA. This year we stayed in Williamsburg. We had a wonderful time together. The only problem was Karen was feeling bad! Chloe kinda felt bad a day or so while we were gone. And Conner struggled a little bit more as well. However, upon returning home, everyone got better but ME!! I stayed sick for several weeks. Uncertain of exactly what was going on, I just knew I was very sick! As it turns out, I was sick because I was pregnant! This was a total shocker!! Definitely not planned. Not only did it wipe my feet out from underneath me emotionally, for 11 weeks I have been extremely sick. The last week, I have begun to finally feel human again! I still can't say that I am overelated with joy...but I don't feel sad any longer. I still feel the feeling of...."I can't believe this is happening to me!" most of the time. But I think in time, that will pass and joy will come! I don't want this baby to think I didn't want it. I do want it...I'd do nothing to to harm or hurt this child. I made a hard decision to even pass up some recommended genetic tests due mainly to the risk of miscarriage! I can't imagine loving a child as much as I love Conner and Chloe. But I think that's every parents fear...and I know...I will love it as much!! Just hard to fathom at this point! I am thankful to feel like getting out of bed! I am thankful for my wonderful kids who have just rolled with the flow and been real troopers through this incredibly sick time! I am praying that soon God would give me much joy!

Our church called a new pastor yesterday! I am so excited! He seems like a wonderful fit for our church. I really liked him and his wife and kids. So, there is a sense of excitement at our church that's not been there for the past several years! It was a great experience to help start Crosswinds Church, but I am so glad that God led us back to Southside. During the turmoil inside me at Crosswinds, God gave me a verse that says I will restore you and make you strong and firm and stedfast! I had no idea what that meant but God is showing Himself faithful! We have fit back in at Southside wonderfully well. Zine is back working with youth on Sunday nights. We are teaching a newly married Sunday School class. I have been teaching a parenting class on Sunday nights and a Kidz Klub every other month on Wednesday night. I have just agreed to be VBS director again this year. Yes, I'm pregnant and the baby could come anytime around VBS, but hopefully, I'll be able to make VBS. If not, I"ll have all the hard work done by having it all planned. I served as VBS director several years ago and totally enjoyed it. So God just restored me right into that role, pregnant and all! I am so thankful that I serve a Faithful God! And I know I can look back and see God always at work in my life! So I know that even through this pregnancy and new baby, God is at work. And God is teaching me so much already through this pregnancy. And I think that I'm just going to be an even more example of God's faithfulness!