Friday Night Wife: March 2013

Monday, March 18, 2013

Long Overdue Update!!!

Oh my it has been a crazy few weeks around here. Right before Spring Break (a time I was so looking forward to) Adda tested positive for RSV! A virus I HATE! I mean I really can't stand it with a very massively large passion! It's soooo contagious and I like to think of it as a sticky tar like invisible germ that coats everything around it, just waiting to take down the next victim. A little over exaggerated, but then again maybe not at all! I was trying to trust in the Lord that Ella could be spared but was being pretty negative. A few days later Ella came down with it too! It was just a little over a year ago that this stupid virus infected both my girls and we ended up at Cooks Children's with Ella at 9 days old! Do you see my disgust with this RSV junk???!!! So the whole break was consumed with massive amounts of coughing, snot, breathing treatments, mortin, tylenol, and benedryl! Oh, and the Nose Frida (my new favorite baby item)! I had a nice little list of things to get done and work on over that week considering it's my last week off until these other two monkey will arrive!

As of today we are all doing pretty stinking good! Adda is completely back to normal. Ella is almost there! She still has a little bit of a runny nose and will finish breathing treatments tomorrow. I did end up getting it too and am doing fine besides coughing up lots of junk! Gonzo of course is just fine! He credits that to the fact that he pumps it up! That's his answer to every problem! Which might be the reason his neck is as large as it is! I won't be pumping it up anytime soon, but if he wants to take the girls and start them on the iron weights I will gladly send them his way! Hey, that sounds like a great idea! I could get some things done during family pump it up time!!!!

One of the other reasons I was so sad to have sick kiddos over the break was because my parents got here on Saturday to help with Lee and Andrea's kids while they were in the hospital with Miriam. Because I would never want any new baby or their family to go through what we went through with Ella and Adda I have stayed away from the Lewis home all week! Miriam is here as of 11:00am this morning and I will probably stay away for another week just to be safe! I'm not kidding about this RSV stuff! I hate when my parents are five minutes down the street and I can't take advantage of time with them! But, better to be safe to not infect anyone else than spread this crap anymore! Although I think we are in the clear around here!!!

Even with sick kids over the break I did manage to get a few things marked off my list. We put some shelving in above my desk in the sunroom! I needed a place to put all by scrapbook/craft/preschool stuff. Adda's closet was where I had been keeping my cricut and all my scrapbook stuff. I also got the hallway coat/linen closet cleaned out. I needed to make space to keep my Mary Kay stuff in that closet. I was also keeping my Mary Kay stuff in Adda's closet! Poor Adda!!! Now her closer is strictly for her (for a few more months) until we add another shelf in it for Ella's stuff! I cleaned out the cabinets in My bathroom that has not been cleaned out since we moved to this house. I had a massive bag of old meds to chunk! The refrigerator and freezer got cleaned out, not because it was on my list but because there was a fowl odor that we couldn't find! It's extremely clean and we are minus a plastic ziplock container due to throwing away the bad black beans inside it! I'll never feel the same about black beans again! Gonzo got the yard cleaned up and ready for planting! We disinfected and cleaned the entire house to get rid of the invisible tar like virus that had infested our walls!

I'm nesting like a wild maniac and ready to get everything in order to add two more bodies to this house! These two babies and I are 23 weeks now and feeling more like 33! I was with Andrea yesterday at the mall (keep in mind Andrea had a baby today) and was asked which one of us was due first! Oh boy!!! What will I look like in 10 more weeks???!!!!

Friday, March 1, 2013

Forgiveness, Faithfulness, Control...

We feel like the Lord has shown us so much in the years we have been married just with the babies He has given us. It took us three years to get pregnant with Adda and during that time we both had to really listen to God. There were times of trust, and times of anger. There were times of hope, and times of despair. In the end He spoke to both of us and brought some things out showing us His abundance of forgiveness. It didn't matter what we felt we were being punished for. That isn't how He works. He forgives no matter what!! AHHH, such peace in that! So, with Adda we felt like God showed us forgivness!

When we were ready to think about more kiddos we assumed that because of the difficulty and long waiting with Adda that we should start a little earlier than planned. We were wrong! God showed us faithfulness! We were pregnant before we even had time to think about it. That was such a sweet feeling after all the heartache of trying. He was faithful by allowing us to not have to go through another "waiting period" to have a baby! He was faithful to allow us to enjoy the whole process without moments of searching for hope, then finding despair. Wanting to trust, then feeling anger! God showed us faithfulness!

With the twins God is showing us new things each day, but ultimately He is showing us that we are NOT in control. He has a plan for our life and that trumps "our plan" any day! Even thought this road will be hard, stressful, difficult, and crazy it is the right road. He has never lead us astray. Even when we might have been living a life not pleasing to Him, He still had His hands in our journey. God is showing us that we didn't control yesterday, we don't control today, and we won't control tomorrow! I'm glad that's not on my back! We don't have to do "life" on our own when we have Christ! We have put our faith in His plan and know that no matter what He is in control! God is showing us that we are not in control!

Adda and Ella before we opened the box!

Last night we found out that we will have two more little girls! Because they are identical we knew it was either going to be two girls or two boys! We could not be more excited about girls! We were both a little relieved to know that the babies were girls. We know girls, and we do girls! Going into a twin pregnancy and delivery there is some anxiety knowing we have no idea what to expect. With two girls at least we know how to do girls! We can do girls! In the next few months Gonzo and I both will be taking lessons in braiding, french braiding, and any other new and up coming hair style! If you are an expert in girls hair please contact me immediately! I'm just praying that we can sing "kum ba yah" while I do hair instead of screaming and crying as I'm jerking heads around!

No, in all seriousness two more girls just feels right! We both had that feeling all along and we were right. We are so grateful that God chose us to be the Daddy and Mommy to four girls. Our prayer is that God will save them fast and grow a huge hunger for Him! Our prayer is that God will save their husband fast and bring them up to be Godly men! Our prayer is that they will see what God intends for a marriage in us! Our prayer is for Adda, Ella, Chloe, and Claire to love Jesus BIG!

Baby A Profile

She is 16 oz. and head down.