Two will be more than a blessing!

We have been keeping a secret for the past several months. If you could see me you’d know the secret pretty quickly. Eric and I are expecting a second child, a birth child, on November 9th. Well, at least we are pretty sure it will be our younger child. We are definitely continuing with our adoption, and the two could be anywhere from 18 months to 1 month apart. So life could get pretty interesting. But we are confident and give testimony that this is God’s planning and handiwork and not our own. We desire his blessing for our family and willingly (and very excitedly) embrace his perfect and pleasing plans for this family.

We would, of course, appreciate your prayers as we plan and prepare to become parents to not only one, but two young children, over the course of this next year. Also, any advice would be welcomed as well. J

Many that I’ve spoken with face to face have asked:
Have I experienced morning sickness? Well, I did for about 5 to 6 weeks. I had a terrible taste in my mouth that made me want to brush my teeth constantly, and smells drove me crazy. I didn’t enjoy packing lunches in the morning. I often would try to eat something first, and worked to make it go as quickly as possible. It will probably be a while until I eat beef stroganoff again or have a desire to make meat loaf, but over all, (looking back) it wasn’t a terrible experience for me. However, I was relieved when the nausea greatly diminished soon after the 11th week.

Will I continue working? Well, that is a tricky question and depends on the timing of our referral. I do plan to start the year and to take off for some maternity leave after baby #2 is born. But it will depend on the progress of our adoption as to whether or not I return or just continue to stay home. So I could end up returning to the classroom to finish the year if we don’t receive a referral until Jan. or later, simply because we would not likely travel much before the end of school. But, like I said, it is all up in the air. I am very blessed by my employers willingness to be flexible with the unknown.

How have you been “feeling”? I know this question is usually asking about how the pregnancy is progressing. So far we have had three visits to the doctor’s office and had two ultrasounds and everything seems to be going great. I must admit that this does not mean that I am worry free, but very optimistic about this pregnancy ending successfully. We’ll see what week 18’s apt. brings in a few short weeks.