Can you believe about 30 years ago the doctors informed me that I would not be able to have children of my own. HA look at these kids.
Left to Right-
My son he is 19 years old and a missionary on the Navajo reservation in Utah.
My baby girl. She is 18 and one week into her first year of college.
My oldest girl. She will be 22 in one month. She is doing well. She struggles with mental illness and lives in a group home.

Knowing we would never have children we intended to both get our CDL license and just spend our lives on the road driving truck and seeing the states. Boy God had different plans than we did

I think we faced all aspects of parenthood. We were blessed to adopt our oldest daughter when she was 8 1/2 months old. Basically she was dropped off with us and in one hours time we became her mamma and daddy When she was 1 1/2 we found out that I was pregnant. That was short lived I wanted nothing more to complete our family by giving my husband a son. Well we had our first son but he only lived 4 1/2 hours. If it werent for his sacrifice we would have never went on to have two more children. When our oldest was 2 1/2 her adoption became final.

Not long after we were blessed with the arrival of our second son. He was early and only weighed in at about 4 pounds. Other than low birth weight, jaundice and a few other minor health issues he was great. He eventually outgrew all these issues as you can tell. LOL He isnt a tiny guy. He thinks it is pretty cool to put his arm around my shoulder and bend down to kiss me on my forehead


Ok the baby is probably our biggest miracle. Although all 3 of them are just absolute blessings from above. None of them were supposed to be. The baby girl was 9 weeks early and weighed in at 3.5 lbs. She had some normal struggle but really for the most part not to much. She spent 12 days in NICU and came home weighing in at 3.14 lbs. WOW Are we blessed or what? God is so amazingly good!

So we went from expecting to never have children~to becoming parents within a hour~to burying our firstborn~to being blessed 2 more times. Although, when we got married I wanted to have a baker's dozen I do think I could have handled it, but God saw differently. Our oldest child is mentally ill and that would have been a greater challenge had we had more children.

God knew best "Til next time