{"id":18,"date":"2013-02-15T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/2013\/02\/and-baby-makes-5\/"},"modified":"2018-04-21T17:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T17:22:21","slug":"and-baby-makes-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/2013\/02\/and-baby-makes-5\/","title":{"rendered":"And Baby Makes 5!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So in grade school I had this project \u2013 I remember very clearly we had to make a collage of our \u201cfuture\u201d \u2013 where we saw ourselves as adults.  Well, apparently my wish as a 12 year old girl was to be a mom, married to the (late, sadly) Jonathan Brandis (who I had a HUGE crush on \u2013 you know, from the hit movie, \u201cLadybugs\u201d, circa 1992?), driving a minivan (and not the swagger wagon of today\u2019s standards) with my FOUR kids and all of the accoutrements we could dream up out of the JCPenney catalog. I probably have that collage somewhere, if I ever find it I will surely blast it out on every kind of social media.  Who knew that my 12 year old self had a pretty good vision as to what the future would hold?  Well, I\u2019m obviously not married to Jonathan Brandis (although I do think I have my own version of a movie star), and I\u2019m currently not driving a minivan (yet), and my days of cutting out the pages of the JCPenney catalog are long gone (because now I have Pinterest), but there is one truth to be found \u2013 and that\u2019s the challenging, crazy, rewarding, amazing world of raising kids. If you read my blog you know Vann and I have been tossing around the idea of a 3rd baby for ages and ages.  There was a time when I thought, maybe, two was enough and I was good: We\u2019re almost out of the diaper\/potty-training phase and the girls are sleeping through the night (most of the time)\u2026<\/em> Ella is almost at the age where we can enjoy a meal out\u2026<\/em> I can have my body back\u2026<\/em> We\u2019ll be a family of four and that\u2019s\u2026perfect.<\/em> But then this voice in my heart said, no, someone is still out there, waiting to join your family.  Someone else will complete this scenario.  And so we continued to talk, pray, argue, talk some more\u2026and ultimately decided to wait another full year. But then the voice in my heart came back and said, no, now.  And I tried to ignore it because I\u2019d like to lose another 5 pounds\u2026<\/em> We have to buy a bigger car and not having a car payment right now is SO nice\u2026<\/em> But I\u2019m worried about post-partum, and gestational diabetes, and recovering from a c-section\u2026<\/em> And it\u2019s not the \u201cperfect\u201d time, the time we<\/strong> think is \u201cperfect\u201d\u2026<\/em> And so, back to the drawing board, prayers, conversations, time spent in major deliberation. And a decision\u2026  And now? Well, baby makes 5 and in September, we have a new bundle of baby goodness joining our crew.  Awesome, and yet, terrifying, not gonna lie.  Last time I found out I was pregnant, I had an 18 month old.  There really weren\u2019t conversations about the baby, just a crazy trial-by-fire when little E was born.  Now, we get to revel in this reaction: \"Valmini_0230NEW\"<\/a> Which is, pretty darn fun. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So in grade school I had this project \u2013 I remember very clearly we had to make a collage of our \u201cfuture\u201d \u2013 where we saw ourselves as adults.  Well, apparently my wish as a 12 year old girl was to be a mom, married to the (late, sadly) Jonathan Brandis (who I had a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/almostjuliet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Valmini_0230NEW_thumb255B1255D.jpg?fit=562%2C484&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1133,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/1133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}