Blessed

I just wanted to take a minute to let you know how blessed we're feeling.  We married over 7 years ago.  At the time, we had no idea what life had in store for us.  We've hit some big bumps along the way, but I wouldn't change any of those life experiences.  Shawn and I are very happy with our lives.  Would we love better paying jobs?  Of course, but who doesn't.  One of those bumps was infertility.  Now we are going to be a family of 6 soon.  This just seems so unreal.  3 1/2 years ago, it was just Shawn and I and we didn't know what was in store for us.  If you had told us on New Years of 2010 that we would have 4 kids before 2014, I don't think we would have believed it.  Now we have 2 amazing kids and 2 more on the way.

This might sound crazy.  I'm not quite sure how to word it.  It's not that I don't feel pregnant, because I definitely do now.  I guess it just doesn't all seem real, yet.  In a way, I sometimes forget I'm pregnant.  The puking, the heartburn, and the movements now make it real.  I can feel our younger son moving around right now as I type this.  He's the booger that keeps giving me these strong urges to pee 24/7.  I have a feeling I'm going to have these moments of disbelief until they are in our arms.

I was the same way when we first got our older 2 children.  Even when we adopted them and changed their names.  It didn't seem real at first.  I was finally a mom and Shawn was finally a dad.  We were responsible for them.  All the decisions were on us and we have to figure out  how to be the best parents we can be.  Its real now and we wouldn't change it for the world.

Apparently, we do things in 2's.  Become parents to 2 overnight and then get pregnant for 2.  We also like to keep the teams even.  Although, Abby and I point out that the dog is a girl, so we really outnumber the boys. ;-)

I have had a cold since last Wednesday.  I'm not sure if its the drainage, but I have been extremely sick to my stomach.  Its been so bad that the Zofran for nausea/vomiting doesn't always help.  I hope this cold goes away soon.  I'm not sure how much more of it I can take.  The twins hate when I puke.  They move around a lot.  Shawn laughed at me because I told them if they didn't like it, the shouldn't make me sick.

I love teaching, but I cannot wait for summer break.  I'm hoping my morning sickness will get better if I don't have to get up quite as early.  I can lay around until the worst passes.


I'm writing this out because I want to be able to look back one day and remember.

Have a great week!

~Sam