Ponderings

We got to go to the doctor yesterday to get our first view of our newest addition!!!  I don't care how many times I see that unrecognizable little peanut on the screen, it moves my heart every time.  We heard the heart beating at 118 beats per minute and had a slight change in due date.  Just a week later, we can now expect our new addition around June 15!

I decided to call one of my closest friends from college, ShaRhonda to share the good news with her but little did I know she had some news of her own!  She is pregnant as well!!!  This will be her fourth baby but the great part is that we will be due within a week of each other!  I just love how the Lord allows you to walk through different phases of life with the people you love.  With our first born, we had our good friends Michael and Annie to go through the pregnancy with and now ShaRhonda and Isaiah!  We are thrilled!

So today I had some big plans to go to St. Clair County for work and it was going to be a late night for me getting home.  Matt, my husband, usually hates my late nights of work because we don't get to spend much time together.  Well, the weather had other plans and the trip was cancelled due to tornadoes sweeping through our area.  (I don't mind trips being cancelled for that.)  Anyway, I have been at home this afternoon  after getting held at my daughter's daycare because the tornado sirens were going off and they wouldn't let me leave.  I decided to take some time to spend with Havah and not worry about the never ending pills of laundry, the dishes that have that weird smell or the floors that somehow ALWAYS end up sticky.  And I must say....I really like this playing with my daughter and housework later kind of day!  Mine and Matt's plan has always been for me to go part time working when we have our second child.  So I have had a preview as to what it might be like in a little less than 9 months.  I think I like it.  Currently, Havah is taking her afternoon nap, I have a cake in the oven (strawberry cake that will have cream cheese icing..yummy), planning meatloaf, mashed potatoes, sweet peas and rolls for supper, and I writing on my blog page...WHAT?!  It feels so natural.  Even on a Saturday it just doesn't feel like this.  It kinda makes me wonder, "What is God up to?"

Of course, there are no plans currently of going part time in the near future but I certainly am warming up to the idea.  So if you happen to think of it, send up a little prayer for wisdom and provision for our ever growing family.

Since my beautiful daughter is singing to me (crying) through her monitor, I will go for now but the thought still stands.

Friendships of the Heart

This past weekend showed me something that I never knew I really needed.  This weekend I saw 3 of my close friends.  All mothers, Godly women, beautiful, strong, all different.  I never realized how much I value friendship until this weekend.  I didn't realize how hungry I was for "girl time".

Friday night my sister-in-law, Erica, came over with my 2 nephews and niece.  She did not come empty handed either... She brought one of God's most precious gifts... BIRTHDAY CAKE!  My birthday was on Wednesday and she wanted to celebrate with me.  We didn't really have a deep conversation or talk about anything of huge significance but her company was so refreshing.

Saturday, Havah and I visited my dear friend, Anna Laura, who just had her first baby girl.  It was so much fun seeing my 5 month old and her 1 month old lay in the floor studying each other.  Again no deep conversation or amazingly powerful word from the Lord just spending time enjoying one another.

Sunday, Matt, Havah and I travel to Nashville, TN.  Hubby had been invited to speak at a church.  An added bonus was our good friends, Michael and Annie,  from college were there with their baby girl (Havah and their little one are only 8 days apart.)  We spent time relaxing and again enjoying one another.

I never realized that I had such diverse friends but somehow the Lord has woven them into the tapestry of my life so beautifully.  They each add a different dynamic to my life.  Erica provides a voice of wisdom, laughter, and a "let's just sit and hang out" kind of relationship.  She is kind of like the big sister I never had.  Anna Laura adds an innocence and inner beauty that shows me the soft, gentle side of the Lord.  And Annie contributes a deep longing for the presence of God and desire to spend time with the "Lover of my soul".

It is as if these women cause me to be more complete in who God wants me to be.  I think God was also showing me His heart toward me. Maybe He knows what I need even before I do.