Our Family Miracle

So I don’t know who all knew we had started the process of adopting for the second time.  Hudson is adopted, and we had such a great experience with that, we kept feeling God was calling us to a third child.  We had filled out the application and started some online training at night. …… Then one day things changed.  I was looking through the application and a question kept standing out – Are you pregnant?  I was like “no.”  After 3 failed IUI’s after Lilly, a blocked fallopian tube, and lots of scarring from a c-section, they had said it was pretty much not going to happen.  But, on a whim, we decided I should take a pregnancy test just to make sure before we were too far along in the adoption process.  This time we were having a hard time getting the process started – one agency put us on a waiting list, the other we liked alot, but things were taking a long time.  We now know, God was saying, “WAIT”,  I have other plans. 

So, the next day, I took the test and it was positive.  I was like, this just does not happen.  But three tests later, they still said positive.  So, yes, we are expecting Burk #3.  I still can’t believe we are having another baby!  I have heard the heart beat three times and seen the baby twice.  Right now we are almost 13 weeks and due sometime in June – depending on when the c-section will be planned. 

“My plans are not your plans and My ways are not your ways”.  This rings true to us because we thought we had it all  planned out, how to have this third child, but God has other things in store.  Some say we are having this child because we moved to North Carolina and were more “relaxed”, others say because we have adopted a child, but I don’t believe it works that way.  God had such a specific plan for us, there is nothing Brian or I could have done to have this child on our own.  There was no trying or planning on our part, because  this was all God’s ultimate plan for our life and our family.  I feel truly blessed and know how precious this life is that is growing inside me.  I don’t want to take any of this for granted or forget this experience. 

We pray for a healthy pregnancy and for our growing family.  We love you all!  Merry Christmas!