What a Whirlwind!

My life the past week has anything but boring! I don't know about you gals, but I do not do well with my husband leaving out of town. He left early Sunday morning, which meant that I had to take both of the girls to church by myself (not easy) and he got home late Tuesday night. Being sick and pregnant, taking care of 2 little girls, and being exhausted to the point that I am falling asleep on the couch while my girls are running around..... not an easy thing!

James gets home and everything is great....... until I collapse! What the! I was on the phone with my mom, the t.v. was up to loud so I bent over to pick up the remote from the couch and.... crash! My back gave COMPLETELY out! I had absolutely no control over it. I couldn't move and it was EXTREME EXCRUCIATING PAIN shooting from my tail bone, up my back and down my right leg. I am so lucky that James works from home, because I had to scream for him. He was on a phone meeting but ran up to pick me up and help me to the other room so see if we could get it to stop. We couldn't get the pain to stop and couldn't find a comfortable position so we packed up the car and ran to Instacare...... should have known, they couldn't do anything. Insurance wouldn't pay for an emergency room visit so we couldn't do that. We went back home and I climbed in the bath tub and put a rice bag on it all night. I was eventually able to walk on my own.... but then I realized that I hadn't felt sick since the incident happened! I feel nauseas ALL DAY LONG..... I don't throw up, but I feel sick all the time.... so then I started to worry. I woke up in the morning and just didn't feel right.... I had the gut feeling that something was wrong with the baby! I of course started balling... called the Dr. and they wanted me to get in and get checked to see if the back pain was related to the pregnancy. I went to the Dr. and all they could do was give me a urine test (telling me I was pregnant.... really, I didn't know!) and took some blood. They couldn't fit me into the ultrasound schedule that day, so I had to wait and go back the next day (today).

What a relief when I saw that little heartbeat pulsating on the screen! As much as I don't like the idea of how difficult it will be to have 3 kids under the age of 3, I would never want anything to happen to one of my babies. It is so nice to have the peace of mind that this baby is healthy, that there isn't twins in there (since my husband thinks that I look 4 months along when I am only 8 weeks) and that now we know for sure that we are going to have to get a bigger car that can hold 3 car seats.....

Through all of this, I discovered how I am surrounded by so many amazing people! So many people were concerned for me, praying for me, I got a text from my older brother concerned about what was going on with me..... neighbors bringing us dinner. It really is amazing how there are so many good people around you in your everyday life! More than anything, my amazing husband!!!! I can never say enough about my husband. Anyone who knew me before meeting him, knows that I married UP! I don't know how I got him but I am so grateful that I did. If there is one thing in my life that I am MOST Thankful for... it is him. I am who I am because of him. And where I fall short (which is in a lot of places) he is there to forgive me and make me smile when I am sad. A whirlwind of emotions have gone through my mind this week, but I ending on gratitude. Thankful for amazing people and thankful that this baby is healthy and progressing. Thank You Everyone!

Sometimes we just gotta have Faith!

There are many things that have happened in my life that I may never know why they happened when they did. Like when we tried to have a baby for 6 years and when our world as we knew it started crumbling down with our spec homes & I was trying to get mural business going to help pay for the MANY mortgages that we had to cover, I become pregnant.... I thought "You couldn't have picked a WORSE time!" Turns out, that baby got me through that hard time.....

Then we got a call from our renters telling us that they had purchased a different home and were moving out of our house (that they were supposed to buy) the very same day that I found out I was pregnant with baby #2! My baby was only 7 months old..... again.... insane timing.... but I absolutely adore that little girl!

Here we are in the middle of crisis after crisis after crisis after crisis right now in our lives and...... yes! I am finding myself pregnant once again during a housing break down once again! But you know what?..... I am ok with it! With this being my 3rd time of EVERYTHING hitting at once... I am becoming an old pro at it! Or it could be that my husband gave me a blessing so that I could handle everything that is going on in our lives!

I'm not very far along at all.... I am only 7 1/2 weeks, but I have decided that I'm not going to keep it a secret this time around from those around us. We have a lot of decisions that need to be made and a lot of things going on that I wanted people to be aware of Why I show up at the park with absolutely no makeup on in the middle of the day or Why my house is in COMPLETE shambles when people show up, or Why I am totally crying for no reason and Why I have this belly after I just posted a comment on FB about how I couldn't figure out why I had lost so much weight (which now totally explains why I lost the weight I did.... pregnant while nursing does that to ya) but I am already showing and I won't be able to hide it with the belts I have been wearing lately...... And to be completely honest, I don't know that I can do EVERYTHING by myself! I may have to cave and ask people to help me out once in a while. If I have to pack up my house with 2 girls while sick, I may need some help from friends and family to help me out where they can. I try to take on too many things at once and this girl can't do it all the time.... I'm not a Super Hero... (although I would like to be :)

I was afraid of the comments that people would make towards us about having them so close to each other, so I want to share this with everyone. I am the first to admit that I don't have perfect faith in my life, but there is one area that I have felt guided and have had faith and that is with my children. I knew with Brooklyn that I was not to do any fertility. I knew that it was a matter of timing and that it would happen when it was supposed to (still didn't make it easier). I knew we were to have Kenidi close to Brooklyn but I was scared to DEATH! Love her to pieces but it hasn't been easy having 2 so young and so close.... This time around, I knew once again that I was not to be on birth control. People think I am crazy but it is something that I felt. It isn't necessarily my ideal to have them all so close to each other, but for one reason or another, God wants these little ones close and I am following what he wants me to do. Doesn't mean that I'm not scared, but I know it will all work out in the end..... ALL OF IT! I can only take it one day at a time and do what I can do! I gotta prepare for my 3 UNDER 3!

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