Baby #4

We just received the news last week that we are expecting baby number 4 in early April 2013!!

I woke up one morning with what has always been my first sign of pregnancy. My skin hurt. That's right, my skin hurt to the touch. I told my husband I was pregnant. Of course he said "no way". I said "Way! Go get me a test!". He came home with a dozen roses and a pregnancy test. He said he knew I'd need the roses either way. I needed them alright and the test was very positive. Here we were with three children (one only 7 months old) and another one on the way. Roses are good!

I think it's safe to say we are still in somewhat of a baby fog right now unable to really grasp this news. We have undecided feelings about birth control and controlling births in general but I'm not sure we were ready for this. I guess ready or not here baby comes :)

This is a very unexpected blessing for our family but the Lord knows what plans He has for us and we accept His plans with gratitude.

Community Kindness Idea

My daughters and I had a yard sale this past weekend and while it was a lot of work it was also a lot of fun and a good learning experience for all of us.

On the last day a lady came up to our sale looking for baby girl clothing and told me she was pregnant with her first baby and she was due in January. I didn't have much of my baby stuff out because I usually consign or save the good stuff, and donate the more "used" items. But what I did have, I found for her and told her she could just have it all for free. She was blessed and I was blessed. I could tell she needed those items and I would have donated them anyway if they didn't sell.

After she left I thought of a wonderful idea. How fun would it be to gather up as many unwanted things as we could find from friends, family, and our own closets and hold a yard sale where everything was FREE?!

It could be done a number of ways. We could surprise our customers at check out when they ask for their total or when they hold up an item and say "how much for this?" you could say "oh that old thing, you can just have it". I realize it would be quite a bit of work but the rewards would be much greater than the effort. Most yard sale shoppers are in need of inexpensive items and some don't have much money at all. What a blessing it would be to arrive at a sale and find out all of the items you've selected are yours to take home for absolutely nothing!

One day my girls and I will be trying this out.