The News, Cravings, and A Great Giveaway

Well now the secret is out so I feel like I can blog again without 'accidentally' letting The News slip out! Since we just recently went through the sad experience of a miscarriage, we were going to wait until the magical three-month mark was passed, but I've been soooo sick and it's becoming stressful to hide how badly I've felt when I'm around friends. And I'm at the 8-week mark, so hopefully everything is fine with this one. In the case of pregnancy, sickness in the first trimester is a good sign, or so they say. I've been reminding myself of that as I have laid on the living room floor, too sick to move an inch, and my sweet husband has been taking off work early to care for the kids. I've had to keep two big bowls by the bedside; one to utilize for the easing of nausea (trying to be gentle with words) while husband rinses the other one out and brings it back! Eeewww.....but anyway...needless to say, it's been a rough month but I know that it will all be worth it in the end. In November, when we are finally holding a blessing that we can TRULY be thankful for during Thanksgiving.

God is so good, isn't He? I heard a song on the radio today (Air1, my fav) that was simply saying: "Jesus, you are all I need....all I need...all I need." And it's true; my Jesus is everything to me and despite what life holds, if you have Jesus, you have enough.

I can already tell that I have pregnesia, or whatever brain ailment comes along with pregnancy hormones, because I just totally forget the deeply inspiring and thought-provoking words that I was going to say in the previous paragraph. Seriously, I was typing away in deep meditation on Jesus and I glanced over at Olivia eating her Mac 'N Cheese and yeah....the thought-provoking words melted out of my head and I started thinking about Mac 'N Cheese, and how I always have the weirdest food cravings with my pregnancies. They are always different!

#1 (Samuel) - Banana's...smell, taste, thought of them...made me sick. I wanted Claussen cold pickles during the first weeks but after that it was ice cream and Dr. Pepper.

#2 (Olivia) - Dr. Pepper...smell, taste, thought of it...made me sick. I wanted Claussen cold pickles during the first weeks but after that it was chocolate chip cookies.

#3 (this one) - Fried food is making me gag. I ate Claussen cold pickles and lomi salmon during the first weeks but currently, it's Vietnamese food or Hawaiian-style saimen.

So much for a spiritual blog. And I was going to talk about something really deep. Guess you'll have to tune in later if you are hoping for a spiritual nugget!

Oh and yes.... I wanted to mention this great giveaway going on at DearLillie's website. She is amazing and her creations are incredible. Here's a pic of ONE of the dress styles up for giveaway to the winner....this is the one I want! Isn't it awesome?I know I'd feel like a princess in it...who wouldn't? But if you want to enter and try to win, I wish you the best of luck....because I LIKE all of my blog followers and would like for ANY of you to feel like a princess in your very own beautiful dress :)

Here's the link to her website: http://dearlillieblog.blogspot.com