9 Month Virus

I have been sick more times this year than I have in a many years. Last weekend I started coming down with what I thought was the stomach virus. On Sunday, however, my "other suspicions" were confirmed. Jim and I are going to be P-A-R-E-N-T-S! I have what Brother Buddy called the 9 Month Virus!

Evidence that the Lord is in control- Jim and I have been trying to start a family for over a year now and had just this past February spoken to our doctor who thought we should look into some fertility testing. While Jim was supportive of this, he felt, though, that it would be in our best interest to try to get him on our health insurance first (JUST IN CASE). So we started the process of adding Jim to the insurance (which BTW we still have not heard back from) and decided that we would wait 6 months (just in case there were any waiting periods) and then we would look into all the testing. Little did we know what the Lord had in store for us!

Of course we are excited beyond all measure! We have such a wonderful support system nearby (my in-laws are right next door and have already been a tremendous help; my parents are about 5 mins away; both my "experienced" sisters live 5 to 10 minutes; my dearest friend who is on pregnancy #3 is a phone call away; and all the wonderful church family are nearby too!) I just can't hardly wait!

As I stated earlier, I have been experiencing a bit of "morning, noon and night" sickness, but the nurse at the doctors office gave me some hints that seem to be helping. Poor Jim, though, hasn't had a home cooked meal in a while- due to the sensitive "smell sniffer"!

The Lord has blessed me with such a wonderful hubby. I was feeling a bit guilty for being in bed so much and when I told him that I wished I could help him more, his repy: "You do all the work I can't do (i.e. carry and deliver the baby) and I'll do all the work you can't do (i.e. everything else)"

I was able to subdue the morning sickness for a while to attend church last night. After services, there were several that were pinpointing my due date (labeling themselves as "experts"). According to the pc pregnancy calculator, I will be due November 28th (the day after Thanksgiving- my Favorite Holiday) My Brother-in-law, Matt says Nov 27th and Brother Buddy (and Brother Randy) say Nov 24th at 7:15pm (Now that's accuracy). We had a good laugh about it!

Please keep us in your prayers, and if I ever figure out this blogging thing, I may try to get a countdown posted somewhere. (We'll see!)

God bless!