Returning Home with a Little Souvenir…

It’s a bitter sweet feeling leaving the place you have called home for nearly two years.  There were moments when all you can do is think about being home, followed by experiences that we never wanted to end.  But the time came for us to get on a plane and say good bye to so many people we had grown to love, so many places we had fallen in love with, and we knew it would be a long time before we made it back.

We left a small piece of our hearts with the island of Saint Lucia, but we came home with a whole lot more!  We returned with memories, friendships, and stories to tell, and an experience that we will never be able to forget and has changed our lives.

But we not only returned with memories, we came home with a little surprise.

 

Our adventure ended, but it’s just the beginning a new adventure for our little family. Growing from two to three!

On Christmas eve, to Brandon’s dismay, we found out the girls in our house will soon outnumber the boys, 2 to 1! 

The unknown is an intimidating thing, and often keeps us from pursuing our dreams, whatever they may be.  Though we knew it would be hard, not knowing where dad would be or how we would adjust, we knew only a leap of faith would make it happen.

While I stay in Idaho and grow a baby…Brandon has been here and there, spending 5 weeks in Atlanta the beginning of the year doing a pre-rotation, spending a few short months together with mom and his growing baby, and now he has left for New Jersey to study. 

Bringing my own soap and rags to the hospital to have a baby, was my worst nightmare.  I’m so grateful to be back in America, home from St Lucia, to have our little girl.  But not having Brandon here has developed into my new fear. Say a little prayer for us that we can get him home to meet his little girl when she arrives.

Only 3 weeks left…and the next adventure begins!