The other thing that is crazy is my continual lack of blogging. I really, really want to blog more, but that Instagram...it's just so easy. But it's also kind of lacking wordiness. And I can definitely be a wordy kind of a girl.
I was looking over my 2015 and 2016 (thus far) posts just thinking about how thin my blog book will be for those years. I can probably just combine them with 2017-2020 and make it semi-worthwhile. :)
Okay, so we've had some major excitement around here since I last posted. We have a new member of the family...gasp!!! It's another girl...
Ahhhhh...isn't she precious?! She certainly is when she's sleeping! Welcome Ruby!! Long story short...Josh's brother (who is a dog breeder...along with 46 other professions) was out of town for a couple of months on a special assignment, so we had his pregnant dog. She had 6 adorable black lab puppies, and we kept one. We absolutely love her, even though she's totally a puppy and wants to chew on all socks and shoes and slippers and legos and every other thing that isn't hers.
We've had her in the house with us for almost two months. She's doing great overall, but I'm looking forward to getting past the puppy stage...in two or three years. :)
For anyone who isn't friends with me in real life, you will be shocked and surprised (and hopefully just as thrilled as we are) to find out that we're also having another baby!
That photo was taken just prior to 20 weeks. I'm over 26 weeks at this point and twice that big. Maybe I'll talk Josh into taking a photo with my real camera sometime in the near future. Okay, so the even more shocking news...
I know, right?!! Shocking. I still don't think I've wrapped my brain around it, nor do I think I will before he arrives in July. And probably not even then, either. It's going to take us a while to get used to snakes and snails and puppy dog tails (though, we're doing pretty well with the puppy dog tails right now).
So, this is kind of how this baby thing went down: I have kind of wanted baby #5 for a while. I've been thinking about it for a couple of years, but I knew Josh probably wasn't going to be on board. He was perfectly content with four kiddos. I would hint around from time to time to get a feel for his interest level or lack thereof. He was at like a 10% baby, 90% no baby level. Not very promising. I was really 50/50.
So, then one evening last spring, we had a pretty major discussion about it. It wasn't sounding promising (at all) for another baby. So, I prayed for contentment. And maybe I prayed for a surprise pregnancy as well...but definitely was praying more for contentment. Then, in August, I had just decided that I was so okay with not having another baby.
Josh had been throwing out the thought of getting a dog in the house since Tucker was sick and didn't have much time remaining. I wasn't sure I wanted another body in the house, but I warmed to the idea. So, one night in September, Josh was sitting at the computer working, and I came up to him and said, "I think we should get a puppy." His response: "I think we should have a baby."
I.was.speechless. Literally.speechless.
I think my jaw dropped and my mouth was hanging open for who knows how long. Then, I had to completely check my emotions to decide if I really wanted a baby #5. Well, regardless, I decided that we just better hurry up and get pregnant before either of us changed our minds. So, we did. And here we are. And the Lord is so kind. We feel beyond blessed to be welcoming this precious baby into our lives, and our girls are beyond thrilled. I fear that I'm going to have to fight for baby holding time. :)
So, those are the two big adjustments in our world. We have seven weeks of school remaining!! Seven!! So excited about that. We've had a fun birthday stretch, and I make no promises, but I would love to post about birthdays and kiddos. I actually do drag out my nice camera to take birthday pictures. That will at least force me to upload photos, and I might even have one or two others that I could post. That would be something, wouldn't it?
