{"id":473,"date":"2009-05-10T20:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=473"},"modified":"2009-05-12T16:49:21","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T20:49:21","slug":"how-did-this-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/473","title":{"rendered":"How did this happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I sometimes have to shake my head when I think of myself having 5 children.\u00c2\u00a0 When Randy and I were dating and talked about having children, we always said “2, maaaaaybe 3”.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, it’s obvious how those plans worked out – I’m sure God was smiling as we talked.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

You know the whole joke, when people see you with lots of kids…chuckle-chuckle…”don’t you both\u00c2\u00a0KNOW\u00c2\u00a0how that\u00c2\u00a0happens?”\u00c2\u00a0 In our case, that wasn’t…uh…the case.\u00c2\u00a0 None of our children were conceived in the traditional way.\u00c2\u00a0 It took us years to conceive Abbey, and that was with fertility treatments.\u00c2\u00a0 When we were ready to try for #2 (God laughing uncontrollably now), we went down the same path of medical intervention.\u00c2\u00a0 Voila, buy 1 get 2 free!\u00c2\u00a0 And, when we realized that God was calling us to add a sweet little girl from China to our brood, we listened.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Our kids didn’t come to us in the standard, text-book, birds and bees way.\u00c2\u00a0 But, He blessed us beyond measure and I honestly don’t know why – we certainly don’t deserve it.\u00c2\u00a0 But, He is\u00c2\u00a0love, mercy, grace, and so much more.\u00c2\u00a0 We are grateful.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

I know there are many women out there who wait to be moms.\u00c2\u00a0 I remember those Mother’s Days and they were just plain hard.\u00c2\u00a0 I couldn’t imagine myself ever having my\u00c2\u00a0OWN Mother’s Day.\u00c2\u00a0 But, this year is my 12th :)\u00c2\u00a0 I pray for those who wait…you aren’t waiting alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I sometimes have to shake my head when I think of myself having 5 children.\u00c2\u00a0 When Randy and I were dating and talked about having children, we always said “2, maaaaaybe 3”.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, it’s obvious how those plans worked out – I’m sure God was smiling as we talked.\u00c2\u00a0 You know the whole joke, when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}