Just Enough Grace for Today

I am completely unaware how anyone makes it through life without Jesus and some amazing family and friends. I have always known I had some good people surrounding me, but wow, did they outdo themselves during this time in our  lives! I don't even know where to start with telling you all the incredible things people did for us, but I will do my best. For starters, I got the initial phone call about our blood work on a Wednesday. At 8:21 a.m. to be exact. I called my mom shortly after, and by 2:00 that afternoon she was at my house. I mean really, she took her own vacation days, drove 3 ½ hours and stayed with me for 4 of the hardest days of my life. She cooked my dinner when I didn’t even want to get off the couch. She sat in bed with me until I fell asleep when Wes had to work night shift and I couldn’t bear the thought of being alone. She researched with me. She prayed for me. She cried with me. She encouraged me. I remember telling her one night, “You are the kind of person tha...

To start this blog I thought I would go back and share the social media announcement we made about our diagnosis story. When I first saw the positive pregnancy test that I left sitting on our bathroom window sill, I walked to my closet and cried. Tears of pure joy. Tears of anxiousness and fear. Tears of the unknown. Tears of gratefulness. I told Wes the news when he got home from work that day, and we hugged and cried a little more, and experienced every emotion you could imagine in that moment. More joy, fear, excitement, nervousness. This news was a bit of a surprise, but quickly turned into overwhelming happiness and we immediately began dreaming of our future, our baby’s future, our family’s future. The weeks that followed were full of a giddy feeling, wanting to tell our family and friends, but also wanting to wait for our doctor’s appointment that would give us some reassurance that there was actually a tiny human in there! The waiting seemed to take forever, but eventually...