So how did all this baby business come about!? (well, you know how that happened, but I'm talking about the other detailed stuff ;))
Shortly after Ryan and I got married we began discussing when we might want to have kids. Maybe some people wait a few years into the marriage to approach that topic, but not me. Why would I wait when I could plan it all out! (I know, I have a problem y'all)
We both agreed to see how we felt after a year or so and then go from there. April came around and in a casual conversation about babies Ryan told me that he was ready. What I thought would be the most amazing, exciting feeling for me turned to fear.
I wasn't ready.
I feared the unknown. I feared that we would never have enough money. (which we won't) I feared how my relationship with Ryan would change. I feared that we would have a hard time conceiving. I was basically consumed with fear. At one point I even feared if having kids might be something that I had always just THOUGHT I wanted.
Then we began that bible study about praying circles that I talked about in an earlier blog post. I realized that it would happen when God was ready. Not me.
Don't get me wrong, I still had my "plans" about when it might be the perfect time for us, but I also knew without a shadow of a doubt that if it didn't work out that way it was because God had something different in mind.
And here we are now.
Things happened much faster than we anticipated and I will never know why God chose for it to work out like that for us. But I am so, so thankful it did.
I found out I was pregnant on Thursday, August 26th in the most interesting of ways. I had taken a pregnancy test the Sunday before and it was negative. That Thursday was Meet the Teacher night and I was busy getting my class ready. As I was working in my room a colleague came in and told me she had the strangest dream that I was pregnant! I laughed and thought that it was quite ironic since we were trying to have a baby. A few hours later another teacher I work with came up to me and said, "Katelin, that's so weird that Kasey had a dream that you were pregnant because yesterday when we were in our faculty meeting I looked at you and for some reason I had an overwhelming feeling you were pregnant!" Again, I laughed but then thought maybe there was something more to these "feelings"!
(side note: both of these women were actually knowingly pregnant as well! Sometimes life is just too funny)
On my lunch break I went and bought a pregnancy test, took it and saw this:
Can I just tell you that in that small classroom bathroom where I had just taken those pregnancy test I had a moment where I threw up my hands and praised Jesus.
Of course I wanted to run and tell everyone, but before doing that I had to tell my baby daddy! :)
Since I had Meet the Teacher, I wasn't able to tell Ryan until about 8:45 that night. Longest afternoon/evening of my life!
Ryan was excited, shocked, speechless, etc and for a minute or so he thought I was playing a joke since just a few days before I had taken a negative pregnancy test.
It really was one of my favorite memories and we are so excited for this journey!
We both agreed to see how we felt after a year or so and then go from there. April came around and in a casual conversation about babies Ryan told me that he was ready. What I thought would be the most amazing, exciting feeling for me turned to fear.
I wasn't ready.
I feared the unknown. I feared that we would never have enough money. (which we won't) I feared how my relationship with Ryan would change. I feared that we would have a hard time conceiving. I was basically consumed with fear. At one point I even feared if having kids might be something that I had always just THOUGHT I wanted.
Then we began that bible study about praying circles that I talked about in an earlier blog post. I realized that it would happen when God was ready. Not me.
Don't get me wrong, I still had my "plans" about when it might be the perfect time for us, but I also knew without a shadow of a doubt that if it didn't work out that way it was because God had something different in mind.
And here we are now.
Things happened much faster than we anticipated and I will never know why God chose for it to work out like that for us. But I am so, so thankful it did.
I found out I was pregnant on Thursday, August 26th in the most interesting of ways. I had taken a pregnancy test the Sunday before and it was negative. That Thursday was Meet the Teacher night and I was busy getting my class ready. As I was working in my room a colleague came in and told me she had the strangest dream that I was pregnant! I laughed and thought that it was quite ironic since we were trying to have a baby. A few hours later another teacher I work with came up to me and said, "Katelin, that's so weird that Kasey had a dream that you were pregnant because yesterday when we were in our faculty meeting I looked at you and for some reason I had an overwhelming feeling you were pregnant!" Again, I laughed but then thought maybe there was something more to these "feelings"!
(side note: both of these women were actually knowingly pregnant as well! Sometimes life is just too funny)
On my lunch break I went and bought a pregnancy test, took it and saw this:
and then this...
Of course I wanted to run and tell everyone, but before doing that I had to tell my baby daddy! :)
Ryan was excited, shocked, speechless, etc and for a minute or so he thought I was playing a joke since just a few days before I had taken a negative pregnancy test.
It really was one of my favorite memories and we are so excited for this journey!
