I am now over 40 weeks pregnant with no sign of labor in sight and I am officially playing the waiting game. I’ve finished every project that I started to help make time go by a little faster. The house is clean and all of the baby laundry is done and put away. I have absolutely nothing else to do but wait. Lately, I’ve had a lot of time to reflect on the past year and it has definitely been a crazy one! There are so many things that I am thankful for so I thought I’d mention them now.
This time last year, Dennis was in Afghanistan and it felt like my world was turned upside down. I have never experienced a more stressful time in my life and lived on pins in needles for the entire 6 months he was gone. Dennis’ battalion lost so many amazing men and my heart still breaks and will continue to break for their families. Each of those men will never be forgotten for the rest of our lives. There are also so many that are still dealing with the injuries they received on that deployment. It’s so easy to get caught up in our daily lives and forget that there are people who 10 months later are still going through surgery after surgery to repair body parts that were injured in an IED blast. Please continue to pray for those men. There are also many that are dealing with the effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. PTSD is a very real thing and the men and their families that have to experience it are also in my prayers. Fortunately, Dennis has never had to deal with anything like that... my husband returned home to me completely untouched by this war and I will forever give thanks to God for that.
Shortly after Dennis’ return home we received the exciting news that we were pregnant. In the beginning, we had scare after scare and God continually proved to us that He had everything under control. Here we are 9 months later waiting for our amazing little miracle to make his appearance into this world.
In February, Dennis was in a horrible accident here in Hawaii. To this day I still can’t comprehend how he was flipped multiple times in the open back of a humvee on the highway, was ejected from it and he as well as the 3 other people involved still had no life threatening injuries. To add on to that, after Dennis returned home from Afghanistan last October, I prayed and prayed and prayed that he would not have to go back to Afghanistan…especially know that he’d be leaving only weeks after Charlie was born. I completely give full credit to God and like to think that this humvee accident was His way of answering my prayers in the most creative way possible. Because of the injuries Dennis received during this accident, he will not be deploying this time around.
I am also thankful for the amazing family and friends that Dennis and I both have at home. They have all shown us so much love during this pregnancy. From a “baby shower in a box” from my mom and Grandma to an amazing “webcam baby shower” thrown by Dennis’ mom and family, and all of the wonderful gifts we’ve received from our amazing friends the last few months, We are so incredibly blessed to have them all in our lives.
I absolutely cannot wait to start this next chapter of our lives…. and hopefully Charlie decides to start that chapter soon!
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