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As you'll notice, I haven't posted to my blog in about four months. So much has happened in that time. Around the middle of May, I found out we're expecting a new baby. I sat down one morning to have school with the boys, and I thought "Hmm, I don't feel very good." It was a familiar and unpleasant feeling, and I went straight to the bathroom to use the pregnancy test I'd been keeping in the cabinet. (We'd been trying for another baby...) It was positive, and school was postponed for the day. As the days went by, I became sicker and sicker and ended up spending more than a month in bed. I was very sick with my first pregnancy, but this one has been worse. I won't go into everything. Then in June, a bad situation arose in regards to our rental house. I won't go into that either, but suffice it to say that God used a very bad and painful situation to enable us to move into a much nicer house. We moved in the middle of July. We love our new little house and it's in a much nicer neighborhood with a fenced back yard for the boys to play in. In August, we had an ultrasound and found that God is sending us another little boy! We've decided to name him Robert Joseph. We had an awful time coming up with a name. Every name I said, Jon didn't like; and every name Jon said, I didn't like. Finally one of us said, "How about Robert?" and the other said, "That sounds good." And we both said, "Okay, that's it! No more discussion, Robert it is!" We had trouble with a middle name too. We liked certain things but nothing really felt right. One day last week, I was hanging up some clothes and thought, "I need to think about a middle name. How about Robert Joseph? Well, that sounds pretty good, I'll tell Jon later." Being pregnant, I promptly forgot about it. That evening, Jon said, "Hey I came up with a middle name today. How do you like Robert Joseph?" I laughed and told him I had thought the same name that day. So we decided Robert Joseph it should be. It's funny coming up with a name for a child. With our first born, Jon loved the name Nicholas and almost insisted that we'd have to name him Nicholas. At first, I didn't like the name at all, but I kept repeating it to myself until it grew on me. For a middle name, I found a list of every boy name on a web site. I went through the whole list, saying each name along with Nicholas. Nicholas Isaiah was the only thing that sounded right to me, so that's what we named him. With our second son, we decided to name him James David before I ever even got pregnant! James is Jon's father's middle name, and David is my father's first name. I still wonder how I'm going to deal with three boys in my little house, but time will tell... (I've considered buying a gas mask.) Well, back to everything that has happened since my last entry. We visited my family over Labor Day weekend. It was a very nice visit. My grandmother was in the hospital, and we were able to visit her everyday that we were there. The day we left, she was doing very well. I showed her the ultrasound pictures of the baby and told her we would name him Robert. This was her only brother's name, and she was happy to hear that the baby would be named for him. (He never married or had children himself.) The day after we got home, James asked me when we would go see Mama again. I said maybe next month. He said, "No, let's go back on Friday." I thought, "I hope he doesn't know something that I don't..." Two days later, my grandmother died and we did go back on Friday. She and I were always close, and if I think about it too much it's difficult. The greatest comfort and joy is that she knew Christ as her Saviour and I know she is with Him today. I've tried to imagine what it is like for her now, to see His glory, to behold His throne, to see all things past, present, and future and to see God's Headship behind all things. But it's so far beyond my understanding that I can't wrap my mind around it. "The sufferings of this world are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." Last Saturday, our transmission totally failed in our van. We'll have to sell it unfortunately. A friend from church had an extra vehicle that he gave us and said we can make monthly payments to him. I don't know what we'd be doing if not for his kindness. Well, that's enough for now. Later or tomorrow I'll write about all the things I've been knitting lately. |
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