Occurrences

I could start by sharing with you several of the occurrences that have caused me temporary stress recently, but instead I'll simply update you on positive changes that have taken place.

1. We recently became a two car family!

Let's see if I can figure out how long it has been since we had two cars. Our Oldsmobile Achieva S died while I was working at the University in International Graduate Admissions. Even though the car was less than ten years old, the damage to the engine proved to not be worth repairing. There was something funny about the engine so that salvage replacement was highly unlikely.

That must have happened about four years ago since my driver's license expired just after I started working there, and my renewal comes up at the end of this year (which means my new driver's license photo will be taken when I am very pregnant!) At the time I was very interested in paying for insurance on only one vehicle so we chose not to replace the car I had been driving.

Looking back on it this may have been what I wanted and not what God wanted.

2. A couple of weeks ago I had my second ultrasound. It's a boy!

Just like last time it was pretty obvious from the images that our baby is male. He was so curled up, however, that the technician was unable to get a shot of his profile. I have no notion yet of what his name will be.

Parker has become very interested in his little brothers heartbeat. Occasionally he'll start saying, "Heartbeat! Heartbeat!" which means he wants to see that part of the DVD. We put our machine on repeat, and each time it ends he says, "Again, Again."