Just when you thought the adventure couldn’t get any crazier…

It has.

We got Stephen to the airport yesterday morning and said goodbye. What a rough day! I am trying to be strong, but I just sent my best friend away for a year. He arrived in New York Sunday evening and then arrived in Amman, Jordan today at about 9am our time. I talked to him once he got to his hotel and he was doing pretty good considering he hasn’t slept. He was going to shower and sleep and his flight leaves in the morning (Jordan time) to Baghdad. They are about 8 hours ahead of us, so this will be our night tonight. I hope to hear from him again tomorrow morning. We continue to pray Psalms 91 over him!

I am in awe and amazement as how the Lord works. While we were so wrapped up with this work thing and everything not going as planned we failed to realize that God may be doing something bigger. And He was. Wednesday we found out that we are pregnant! Yes, Stephen got me knocked up and now is leaving for a year. We had actually talked about this before he took the job and decided to leave it all in God’s hands. Apparently God thinks that I can do this on my own. We just have to thank the Lord for allowing Stephen to be delayed so that we could find out together. I am still so very early in the pregnancy (about 5 weeks) but we cannot contain our excitement. Stephen will now only come home once, for the birth, and probably stay a full month. This way when he goes back he will only have a few months left before he is home for good.

So while my emotions are at an all time low with Stephen being gone, they are also at an all time high about the baby. I cry about every few hours, sometimes a happy cry sometimes a sad cry... I pity anyone that spends an extended period of time with me.

Other than those two big events it was a pretty low key week/weekend. We also went to Peyton's 3rd birthday party (Happy birthday Peyton!), dinners with the fam, I got in a car accident (not my fault & not bad at all), a date with my sweet husband, got Libby Lou spayed and a few of norm routines.

Sweet baby in my belly, we love you and have prayed for you for so long. We can't wait to meet you and get to know you!

Praise the Lord for safe plane rides! Praise the Lord that I made it through the first day! Praise the Lord for delays! And Praise the Lord for the sweet gift of a baby!