Sometimes life.....

Sometimes life comes at me faster than I can think it through or definitely faster than I can get 15 solid minutes at my computer. I know, I know, it's fast for you, too, yet still you find time to blog. What in the world is wrong with me?

It's been over four months since I've posted anything. So many BIG things have happened here since then that I feel sort of like a different person than the mom who posted here last. I mean BIG things.

This is the first thing that happened. Here's a picture to fill you in. Because you know what a picture is worth. And sometimes it's worth more than that.
This little girl will arrive in her own time....sometime before September! The announcement to her daddy was written something like this:

Merry Christmas!!! "Children are a gift of the Lord. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them."

We now qualify as having a quiver full. And we couldn't be more thrilled. All five of us. Little guy thinks that this little girl will only be his sister and will often correct his big sisters if they refer to her as their own.

And in our family's tradition, there will be a good distance between our last baby and this one. I mean, we like to stick with a theme around here. And I'd hate to mess around with the title of my blog. If this bundle had come sooner, I might have had to change it to something like, "In Their Own Time Except for the Last Two Who Share Their Time". And that would simply be too long.

Little Man will be almost 4 by the time this little love arrives...a good age for a big brother, don't you think? Biggest big sister will be newly 13. And youngest big sister will be 7. And me? Hahahahaha....did you really think that I would tell? A lady never tells her age (but if you catch her on a good day, she might tell you her husband's age!)!

I'm a little worried about how big this baby will be. If you read my Labor Day post, you know that I make 'em big. So I've shopped around for a doctor that tells me that he will not hesitate to induce me early to avoid an extremely large baby. And I've found one. I'm hoping for an induction date of August 18--my dad's birthday.

And that leads me to what happened next....