God will make a way!

When me and my husband got married we knew from the very beginning we wanted to start a family right away and we wanted three children. Being my husband came from a household of seventeen children and I a mere two, we decided the number three would complete our family.

Within the first month of our marriage, we got pregnant. Well, I was pregnant, but of course he helped with the process. The pregnancy wasn't what I expected, because I was always sick, I ended up on bed rest and gave birth to preemie. But we were blessed in spite of. Our baby, although very tiny was healthy. Thanks be unto God!

As he grew older, we decided that we wanted to have another child so that they would be close in age and hopefully be best friends and play nicely together. So, on the first birthday of our first son, we tried again for the next child.

We had making babies down to a science and God blessed us once again to conceive according to our plans and with no difficulties.

The second pregnancy went well. No complications at all. The baby was growing as he should and I was able to gain the proper weight for a healthy pregnancy. The only issue towards the end of the pregnancy was I had to inject myself daily with blood thinners because the doctors didn't know why the first child came early.

Yes, those shots hurt. But a mom will do what she has to do to maintain the health of her child.

My faith in God played a major role in both pregnancies. I claimed nothing but health and delivering at full term with the second and God answered my prayer.

And so, our family grew. One child for me to attend to and one for dad to attend to. Perfect in a lot of ways. Only when I was alone with both of them did I fill out numbered, especially as they grew older and became more busier.

The funny thing about our family is that one son looks exactly like me and our other son looks exactly like my husband. One lady from church calls the boys, "little mommy and little daddy."

As time passed, yes we always knew we wanted to have a third child, but with our finances not being where we want them to be, we planned that I would go back to work and we would try for number three in about a year or two. We had it all planned out, so we thought.

But then, life took us by surprise. As I was in the process of applying for my license to start working, I got pregnant. Not our plan. We were in shock. My husband kept asking, "How did this happen?" Weird question I thought, being that he already had two children and so I figured he knew how babies were made. But I understood where he was coming from. Me being pregnant right now changes a lot of things.

But God will make a way!

And so I'm still in the process of applying for my license to work, but as that is being completed I running behind two VERY active little boys with a growing belly. I'm very tired and all I want to do is eat and sleep.

The boys understand that I baby is coming and they are very excited because they love babies. I wonder if they will feel the same way once this baby starts taking their things?

I know this time, this baby will be a girl because that's what we desire. And God gives us the desires of our hearts. But after this child, this baby making shop is closed. Three is enough. Well hopefully it's just three and this baby is not a twin. I don't know how I would break the news to my husband if the doctor heard two heart beats.

But regards of what's to come, we're a family. A complete family with God as the head and us as his children.

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