{"id":811,"date":"2007-10-07T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/sunday-october-7-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-10-07T19:03:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T23:03:00","slug":"sunday-october-7-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/sunday-october-7-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday October 7, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

To be sung to the tune of “These Are a Few of My Favorite Things.”<\/font><\/p>\n

Diapers and Onesies and warm fuzzy blankets<\/font><\/p>\n

Baby Blue Eyes behind long, dark eyelashes<\/font><\/p>\n

Dreaming of dimples and maybe some curls,<\/font><\/p>\n

Will it be a boy or maybe a girl?<\/font><\/p>\n

When I’m nauseous<\/font><\/p>\n

When my legs ache<\/font><\/p>\n

When I’m feeling blue<\/font><\/p>\n

I’ll simply keep thinking of sweet baby things<\/font><\/p>\n

Then oh, how my heart will sing!<\/font><\/p>\n

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That’s right!  We’re expecting a baby!  And yes, we are so excited … and grateful.  It has felt like a long journey of tears, hope, shattered dreams, and faith.  My heart was stretched in places I didn’t know existed.  Infertility wraps itself around your life like an octupus.  You think that having a baby is one segment of your life; but grief is not.  It is like walking in a thick fog.  You know in your head that there is beauty in the world somewhere; but your heart has forgotten what it looks like.  Sometimes you cry so hard you wonder if your insides got twisted.  One minute you say, “I will never hope again,” and two days later you are setting yourself up for more shattered dreams.  <\/font><\/p>\n

I am convinced that hope is a gift from God.  Sometimes I thought I should stop hoping.  Recently my friend was in the middle of a difficult time and she said, “I don’t know why I do this.  Why do I start to hope again?”  And I knew.  We hope.  Because if we could not hope, we would not go on.  We wouldn’t try again.  We would not learn to live.  And we could not bear the pain.  So God gave us hope.<\/font><\/p>\n

And now He has also given us a miracle.  On Thursday I watched the blip, blip, blip of my baby’s heartbeat.  And today, I again worship God the Creator.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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