Friends! It's only been a minute since my last post (jokes). I've not been sharing life on this platform, and I miss it. Just add 1 year, 10 months of life growing and happening and shaping since the last time Moxie got attention, and that's where everyone is. I've been growing older along with the children, which makes me even more shocked, scared, humored that I'M HAVING A BABY!!!!! It's like the craziest. Heading into the second trimester this week, still having flashes of what-the-heck-is-God-thinking blink across my brain... No, this wasn't planned (I would've wondered if I were you, too). Let me clarify: this wasn't planned by
us. This life has been on history's timeline since the foundation of the world, and that's what stops my sad/sorry tears...and opens the floodgates of gratitude. I should explain the sad/sorry. My collection of 4 children has finally hit a sweet spot. They can pretty much take care of themselves. Oliver can boil the water and make the mac n cheese. They can all unload the dishwasher and use the bathroom and make their beds and ride their bikes and brush their teeth and feed the cats and dress themselves. Most can read and play the piano too. There are parts of my job as a parent that I had retired from. Prematurely *palm to forehead*. Also, we have a small house with 3 small bedrooms, and we've done the math perfectly so that each bedroom has two people. Where are we going to put a baby and all the gear that comes with it?! These are the things that stunt my enthusiasm...but they're all nothing compared to the promise of new life. So here we go, jumping back in with both feet, preparing to welcome another tiny person into this tiny house.
I've been meaning to share these pictures since my friend
Margaret took them, and now that they're going to be outdated, I have to swoosh them into the world.
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| (That's the face I made when I saw two lines on the pregnancy test.) |
Excitedly awaiting the Great Bambino, due 4/27/20.
