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Friday, June 22, 2012
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Calling All Prayer Warriors
If you read my blog and if you pray to the mighty King of heaven, I'm going to enlist your help to do that RIGHT NOW.
My dear friend Sara delivered her twin girls at just 24 weeks this past Tuesday morning. I still cannot believe that it has happened in this way. We've been having fun being pregnant together this time around and this turn of events has been a shock to everyone.
She was admitted to Iowa City hospitals in pre-term labor last Saturday. The doctors did all they could to help stop and prevent labor. She was on many meds to stop labor and steroids to help the babies' lungs. But Tuesday morning she had an emergency c-section and her precious twin girls came into the world at 1 lb 9 oz and 1 lb 13 oz.
We've heard that the babies (we don't know their names yet) seem to be doing as well as can be expected for ones born so early, and that is a praise. However, these little ones have a long way to go and this family needs all the prayer that we can give them.
Please pound the gates of heaven for the White family - Chad, Sara, big brother Ollie and baby girls; that God would be merciful in saving their lives and blessing them with good health. We serve a big God - He was not surprised by this and He is not beyond miracles. And we know that God is good ALL THE TIME.
My dear friend Sara delivered her twin girls at just 24 weeks this past Tuesday morning. I still cannot believe that it has happened in this way. We've been having fun being pregnant together this time around and this turn of events has been a shock to everyone.
She was admitted to Iowa City hospitals in pre-term labor last Saturday. The doctors did all they could to help stop and prevent labor. She was on many meds to stop labor and steroids to help the babies' lungs. But Tuesday morning she had an emergency c-section and her precious twin girls came into the world at 1 lb 9 oz and 1 lb 13 oz.
We've heard that the babies (we don't know their names yet) seem to be doing as well as can be expected for ones born so early, and that is a praise. However, these little ones have a long way to go and this family needs all the prayer that we can give them.
Please pound the gates of heaven for the White family - Chad, Sara, big brother Ollie and baby girls; that God would be merciful in saving their lives and blessing them with good health. We serve a big God - He was not surprised by this and He is not beyond miracles. And we know that God is good ALL THE TIME.
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Book I Am Currently Reading
Church Behind the Wire by Barnabas Mam
a story of faith in the Killing Fields
Baby Update
For those of you who aren't aware, Andy and I made a decision that was a little out of the norm for us. We decided to find out the gender of our baby. I know! You're shocked, right? Andy and I have loved NOT knowing the gender of our first two children and being surprised on delivery day. And we love it! The surprise, the shock, the adrenaline rush when they say, It's a girl!
However, at our ultrasound appointment (tho we told the ultrasound tech we didn't want to know), about halfway thru I said to Andy, Are you sure you don't want to find out right now? He said he didn't care if I didn't (despite 2 or 3 discussions about it ahead of time) and we decided that if this was possibly going to be our last child, then we wanted to know what if felt like to discover the gender of our child BOTH ways: in the delivery room and during the ultrasound. So we found out that....it's a boy! Woo hoo! We were both shocked and VERY excited. Georgia is mostly excited, but keeps telling me she wants a girl. :)
Now that I know both ways, I have decided that if for some reason we do have a fourth child, we will wait until delivery to find out if it's a boy or girl. It's waaaaay more fun. It was fun at the ultrasound, but just not AS fun. There is so much more excitement in the delivery room when you discover gender AND you get to have your baby at the same time. Yes, I will have planning time, but that doesn't really mean anything to me. I can do things to the nursery just as easily after the baby is born as before.
All in all, I just can't believe we're having a boy....oh boy. :)
However, at our ultrasound appointment (tho we told the ultrasound tech we didn't want to know), about halfway thru I said to Andy, Are you sure you don't want to find out right now? He said he didn't care if I didn't (despite 2 or 3 discussions about it ahead of time) and we decided that if this was possibly going to be our last child, then we wanted to know what if felt like to discover the gender of our child BOTH ways: in the delivery room and during the ultrasound. So we found out that....it's a boy! Woo hoo! We were both shocked and VERY excited. Georgia is mostly excited, but keeps telling me she wants a girl. :)
Now that I know both ways, I have decided that if for some reason we do have a fourth child, we will wait until delivery to find out if it's a boy or girl. It's waaaaay more fun. It was fun at the ultrasound, but just not AS fun. There is so much more excitement in the delivery room when you discover gender AND you get to have your baby at the same time. Yes, I will have planning time, but that doesn't really mean anything to me. I can do things to the nursery just as easily after the baby is born as before.
All in all, I just can't believe we're having a boy....oh boy. :)
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Beautiful
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Book I Am Currently Reading
Bittersweet by Shauna Niequist
thoughts on change, grace, and learning the hard way
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