There are TWO lines!!!

I'm not one who loves to eat healthy.  I wish I craved fruits and vegetables but I don't.  My mom used to tell me if I would just eat lots of that stuff that my body would crave it.  Even though I know she was right I haven't made myself do it.

Almost three years ago I decided to start eating healthy.  I went to the store and bought cantaloupe, carrots, broccoli and some other "good stuff."  I also picked up a pregnancy test because I was late.  I have never been regular so I wasn't alarmed but I was a smidge suspicious so I thought I should check just to be sure.

So I put the groceries in the kitchen and go to the powder room to, you know, check the stick.  OH MY GOODNESS, are you kidding me????  So I try to walk to the front of the house where my hubby was last seen.  He wasn't there.  I see the front door is open so I stumble through it and tell him quietly to, "come here."  "Huh" he says.  I say a bit firmer, "come HERE" then he says, "what?"  So I yell, "GET IN HERE THERE ARE TWO LINES!!!!"  Of course he has NO idea what I'm talking about!  I show him the stick and he still doesn't believe me.  After all we have been married for 16 years, we have a 13 year old and have never been able to conceive.  He had major surgery 11 years before and the doc told us if we wanted more children we should freeze some "swimmers" just in case.  I boldly and confidently said, "if God wanted us to have more kids He would give them to us."  I always believed it but I ASSumed that since we hadn't conceived in 11 years we couldn't have anymore children.  While we all wished we had a larger family I believed in God's plan.

Hubby is excited but won't believe it until I go to the doctor the following week to get official results.

So of course I call my bestie, "J" and say this, "well, it's a good thing I bought cantaloupe and carrots since there are two lines on the stick."  Of course she said, "WHAT?"  I confirmed very loudly that I am pregnant.  Now what would any great friend do?  She would say something wonderful like, praise God or congratulations, right?  No, not J, she laughed, HARD!  I didn't think it was one bit funny, in fact I was TICKED!  I was ticked for many months.  I was after all over 40!  This was NOT funny.  It is pretty funny though and God does have a sense of humor.

Having a baby at this "advanced maternal age" came with all sorts of tests, risks and rumors.   I did finally thank and praise God for this blessing.  In the end we have this precious baby girl who has turned our world upside down.  Though she was born with clubfoot and hydrocephalus plus a few other challenges along the way, she is the light of our lives and truly a gift.  She keeps us young and laughing.  He big "bubba" adores her and she adores him.  I realized the other day that he will be the first boy to break her heart.  When he meets his future wife his attention will be all on the "new gal."  We have seen in my adopted son, Ethan (I'll share that story soon).

So long story short, I did eat healthy food for awhile but have long since returned to the junk I'm not supposed to eat.  If you suddenly decide to eat healthy, maybe you should pick up a pregnancy test too!

Leave me a post and tell me what your favorite healthy food is, maybe your healthy food will make me want to go get some!

Here's to healthy eating, one day.

Blessings from Bella and her mommy,

Tami