Greetings :)
I know, it's been a while. Life just picked up pace and ran away from me for a little while. I'm sure you all can understand that feeling.
Today I am taken back by what all has gone on in my life since my last post. First is how my little ones have bonded...FINALLY. My oldest started kindergarten this year and my little ones have really struggled with their relationship and how they fit together without her. Any relationship that goes through a major change is hard to navigate at first. Well, I am glad to say they have started to find their sea legs :) As their mom, there wasn't much I could do to help them. I felt so lost and frustrated. I tried helping find something they had in common or throw out play ideas and they just fell on deaf ears. Oh man was there bickering and yelling. Whoa. But, this week they have really come together and found common ground. Thank you Lord! haha. Not quite sure how much more of that fighting I could have taken.
Some other life moments to have happened were many birthdays. Mine, my oldest, and my husband. Not to mention many other family members who have October birthdays as well. I love celebrating birthdays. It is a day that you get to look back and remember all the other great birthdays you have had and be thankful that those in your life were born at all. That is one thing I tell my husband every year I have a birthday with him. I am so thankful he was born. I would have missed out on so much life if he hadn't been born. He is such an amazing man, husband and father. I am so blessed to have him in my life. When it's my children's birthdays I am taken back to the day they were born. I am flooded with memories of the first time I got to see their faces. If you are a mother, those moments never become cloudy. I can remember every detail of when I met my children face to face. I also love to remember my husband's face when he got to meet our children for the first time. There are so many sweet memories that come with birthdays. Embrace them. Allow moments to be taken back there. Be overwhelmed with thankfulness for those births and how they impacted your life.
Another moment of life that happened for me the past few weeks is our announcement of Womack #4 coming!!!!!! Yes, friends, our precious addition should be here in May. I have found this announcement to be so funny. I will tell you why. Having 1, 2, even 3 children is pretty average and normal for our society. But, you hit child #4 and you get mixed reactions :) I am smiling and giggling as I write this because I have found it very entertaining. You get reactions like...that's awesome from those people who say the more kids the better. You get reactions like...wow, were you guys trying? from those people who think it must have been a slip of the birth control since 4 is on that fine line of A LOT of kids :) You also get those...you guys are crazy! reactions from those people who just think 4 is too many or more than they could possibly think about having. I find it really humorous. Yes, 4 kids is quite a bit. It is larger than the average American family. I just say that there are some people cut our for 1 child and there are some people cut out for 20. I have always had the number 3 in my brain for children but my husband has always mentioned 4. Yes, the kids make our life busy, loud and limited in some ways. We can't go where we want to all the time, we can't travel as easily, we don't go out near as much as we did. These are all limitations that came with having children. But...no let me try that again. BUT, this is the family we have chosen. 4 kids is what we have chosen for our family to have and we are overjoyed by the addition coming. We believe that each child that comes in to a family through whatever means is a gift from the Lord and should be treated and loved as such. Our kids are very excited for the baby to come as well. They talk about it all the time and ask everyday how big the baby is that is in my tummy. My son seems to think that whatever I eat the baby must really like ;) His thoughts about the whole baby in mommy's tummy thing are so great :) We will be a family of 6 come May and are very excited about it.
So, a lot going on here in The Womack World. I hope your world is full of life and love as well.
Go. Enjoy. Be Blessed.
