Back in October I posted a blog titled “This Week Last Year” It talked about where we were in our family journey. I decided that life is all about balances and this post in almost exactly the opposite of that post. (stay with me ok?)
Now this post is about last year on this exact date, but I am going to back up to January 2016 for a minute. (Still here?) Back in January we were still feeling our loss from October. I decided we were going to wait until March/April to start trying again. We wanted to make sure Baby G was born after my wedding season. In my head I kept pushing it back. I was nervous to try again.
I decided last minute to attend a photography workshop in DC. I bought a ticket, called a good friend and we headed off. It was a refreshing day hearing some of my favorite photographers speak. It just made me excited to try new things with my business! But my biggest take-away had nothing to do with photography (well not really) All the photographers kept repeating to not put your work before your family. A fact I always knew, but after I thought about it I realized that if I kept pushing back trying for another baby so it won’t run into wedding season, that was exactly what I was doing! In that moment I knew God was saying we needed to start trying for a baby right then. No waiting. I went home and the first thing I said to my husband was “We need to start trying for a baby now”.
A couple weeks later I woke up and felt off. Nauseous. I almost vomited walking down the stairs. I ran to tell Matthew that I thought I was pregnant. Which was crazy because if I was pregnant baby would have been like 4 days old. I took a test anyway and it came back negative. We weren’t really discouraged. I mean who gets pregnant the first time they try?
Fast forward to a couple more weeks. (A year from today!!!) I woke up one morning and realized that Miss Mother Nature still hadn’t visited. I told Matthew I was going to take another test. I took the test and gave it to Matthew while we waited. I wanted him to be able to tell me this time.
I was changing the laundry and he was telling me a story all animated and waving his hands around, when he noticed the test. It said Positive!
So one year ago we knew that Eloise (Baby G) was going to arrive. She entered our world. Since then, NOTHING has been the same. Our whole world has shifted and we could NOT be happier. It really is crazy to think how much has changed in one year. Now we have an almost 4 month old. We are a family. I am a mom and Matthew is a Dad. It truly is the greatest feeling.
Yesterday we actually had some Spring weather and Eloise absolutely LOVED being outside!!
