A Big Surprise

We are expecting twins! You can only imagine how surprised we were when we went to get a sonogram done and the doctor very matter-of-factly stated that this is a twin pregnancy. Anthony just about collapsed on the floor stammering “Wwwhat dddid yyyou ssay?” To which she very calmly replied, “There are two babies.” That was one of our life changing moments. Two babies!! We’ve never even had one before and now we are having two?! That was a month ago and we still have plenty of days where we walk around in a daze-like state of mind. How do we wrap our mind around the fact that we are going to have two babies?

This news has rocked our world quite dramatically. We will need to move into the city probably sometime in February. We can’t be five hours from our midwife or a good hospital in the last trimester with a twin pregnancy. So I guess we’ll be city folk for a few months. Something that we aren’t particularly looking forward to. We aren’t really city people as the country as always been our home. We’ll need to find a place to live. That looks pretty big to us. Where do we even start? But, we know moving to the city for the last trimester of pregnancy and over the birth of the twins will be the best thing for us to do.

After the twins are born and a little older we don’t know for sure what we will do. When we leave our dear little house where we live now we won’t be able to move back to it. So, I guess we’ll be houseless. If we move back to the area where we live now we’ll have to build a new house. Something we don’t want to do. As many of you know things have changed drastically within the mission here in the last two years and we no longer feel like we have a future there. We’ve been thinking and praying about moving on for a while but never sure how to go about it. Now we have no choice. Where we will move onto yet is a big ? for us. We know God has a place for us somewhere but we aren’t totally sure where that is. So for now we are taking one step at a time. Moving to the city is the next step and hopefully by the time we are ready to leave the city we will know where God wants us to go.

The hardest thing ever about leaving is leaving the school. We have invested our everything into the school and have been so excited to see where it will go. Now we are leaving it not sure if it will continue or not. There is so much potential there but so few people who have a vision for it. We are currently looking for a director and teachers for next year. If those needs are all fulfilled then it can continue. If not, well, I don’t even want to think about that.

Some of you have been asking about Alex’s adoption. There has been so little progress made in the last three months that it is discouraging. All we need is for the judge to give us a court date for the hearing for the adoption but he is taking a very long time giving us that. Our judge is in town so we are really praying that the adoption will be complete by the time we move to the city so we won’t have to go back for the hearing after we move.

There are many areas where we’d like you to join us in prayer:

• For a good place to live in the city
• Anthony will need a good job in the city
• A healthy pregnancy and healthy babies and that everything with the birth will work out as planned
• That the school can continue – for a director and teachers with a vision for a Christian school
• That Alex’s adoption will be complete before we move to the city
• Direction for the future

I’ll close for now with one of my favorite quotes –

“Don’t tell God you have a big problem. Tell your problem you have a big God.”

I’m so glad God is bigger than whatever circumstance we find ourselves in. He has faithfully guided us in the past and I know He will continue to do so in the future.

P.S. In case this blog post sounds heavy and discouraging I want you to know we don’t necessarily feel that way. Yes, we have a lot of big, hard changes and an unknown future ahead of us. It’s a lot for us to process and know how to proceed from here. But. We are very excited about our babies. We never would have asked for twins but since that’s what we are getting we are excited about it. It’ll be a true adventure and as most of you know we’ve always been the adventurous type. And besides, we are privileged – not many people get to have two babies at once. 🙂