December

Well, it appears we are having a December baby!  Our doctor thought he might come early, and Kolby has been convinced for weeks that he’d be here any day now.  As much as I also hoped that would be the case, I had a gut feeling it would be December.

December is a really special month for us.  We were married on December 15 five years ago, and all of the Christmas decorations, music, and spirit added so much joy to the time surrounding our wedding.  I love everything about December and the Christmas season.  I love that our anniversary falls so close to Christmas and that every year it’s surrounded by such fun times with Kolby—putting up our Christmas lights, picking out and decorating our tree, shopping and wrapping together, and going out to nice dinners on chilly evenings and getting to enjoy all of the Christmas lights and decorations as we drive around.  I especially love the season of Advent—the warmth of gathering as a church family and preparing for the celebration of Christ’s birth.  Then of course there is Christmas itself, and it is always such a blessing to celebrate such a meaningful holiday with each other and with our families.

I remember last December vividly.  I just knew in my heart that it was the month we would find out we were pregnant.  Sure the odds were against us, but it was December—it was “our” month!  I wrote the whole story in my head.  I know God really had some good laughs at ME writing the story, as if it was mine to write. It just all made sense to me… the waiting, the infertility, the holding onto hope… it would all end in this clever way:  God would bless us with a child in our special month of December.  

But December came and went.  I almost didn’t believe the negative pregnancy test when I saw it.  How could I be wrong, when the story I had written felt so right?  I was devastated.

That was last December.  And things got much worse from there, with the cyst, endometriosis diagnosis, advice to take a break, scheduled surgery, etc.

But what about this December?  This December we will welcome our son into our family.  A precious gift from God, given to us in His perfect timing and only possible through His miraculous power. 

Yep, December is a really special month for us!