At long last!
Thank you to all of our followers, we love you :)
Have you been counting?
We have.
48.5% baby,
12,450,000 seconds left!!
We're beginning to see what the nature of family life in the Navy is all about. Being out to sea is tough for communication; it's tough for family; and it's all a little new to us because we weren't married and living together last time.
My Facebook status today says it all though. "Rolling with the changes...thanks REO."
It all comes down to attitude. Jen has started to attend a women's group Bible study about "Loving your Military Man" focused on how to improve the military marriage relationship. Part of her "homework" is to discuss certain topics at home to identify ways to improve our relationship. The continuing theme for us as we go through the questions is that, no matter what happens, we're committed to each other and we know that God will not give us more than we can handle.
Now's the time in the pregnancy where other people start noticing the baby bump and questions start coming. The strangest thing, and most unexpected by far, is that now is also the time when the baby horror stories start coming out. "My baby pooped this," "My little one threw up that," "I woke up every 45 minutes through the night," and my favorite, "My baby just didn't poop at all for 5 days, and the doctor said that it was normal." The nice thing about having the baby at this time of our lives is that we've gotten the chance to get exposure to parenting from all of our friends with kids. If we've learned one lesson more than any other, it's that every kid is different. Yeah, we'll get poop; we'll get peed on; we'll have smelly baby syndrome; and, God willing, Jen will clean it all up (hehehe). No sweat.
The saddest story of the week came from bad pregnancy news about a new friend of ours here in Hawaii. A lot of people have asked us if it makes us nervous about our own pregnancy, but it doesn't. After the first miscarriage, we learned that God provides according to His purposes. My memory verse for the week is Psalm 33:10-11, "The Lord foils the plans of the nations, he thwarts the purposes of the peoples. But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations." We are full of confidence that whatever happens will not change the fact that God is in control, and we're okay with that.
If nothing else, the course of our lives leading up to each other has convinced us of that.
And with those deep thoughts, let me leave you with this smile:
Best quote: "Ahh...twins, how nice"
