Let start here.
It was interesting, light heartening, and exciting for me to go back and read this. It truly seems like just yesterday that I wrote that! I am so ready for this last pregnancy to be over, but on the other hand, I want to hold onto it forever.
It's really fun to look back: Mark and I got married on July 31, 1999. We bought our first home on December 28, 1999, the one we would bring our first 3 girls home to, the one we would become a family in, the one we would leave behind and miss dearly on May 1, 2009. We welcomed Madalyn March 1, 2001; Loraly on November 17, 2003; and Sophie on December 2, 2007. Wow, when you write it like that it seems like BOOM, BOOM, BOOM! But our life together has been long, wonderful, endearing, and full of love and laughter! Sure we have had LOTS of rough times, but life is grand!
God IS good, and he does have a plan!
Tomorrow we will welcome our last, sweet baby girl into our family! The things I can't wait for are to see her, to hold her, I am dying to see which sister she either looks like or doesn't, I want to see (and pray) how Sophie is with her, and to FINALLY have our family all together and complete as a whole (funny because I wrote about this same thing awaiting Sophie's arrival)!
Madalyn and Loraly have already been discussing who gets to hold her first. So Mark made it into a game of who gets the most good behavior marks the rest of the week and the winner gets to hold Reese first. I am glad that they are so excited about seeing and holding their new sister because they were only viewers with Sophie. I had to make them hold her, and that was the end of that.
So on the eve of our sweet baby Reese arriving, I have been cleaning a little, grocery shopping, playing with Sophie, ironing, and just enjoying my last day EVER being pregnant. For the last few days (and a couple weeks) I have been hoping this baby would make her appearance but I am thankful for everyday that I get to spend holding and protecting her inside of me. I thank God for that.
Please pray that God will watch over her arrival tomorrow and that he will protect both her and I during it!
(I will post details and pictures as soon as we get back home!)
