I’ve been a little negligent with my blogging lately, but it is all for a good reason!  I haven’t felt the best lately, so a lot of things have fallen by the wayside.  Blogging has been one of those things.  But, I do want to continue (keeping family up to date and recording what God is doing in our lives).  So here goes…

As you may have heard, we are expecting a new little baby Brown around the 6th of December!

When William and I married, we thought the chances of us conceiving were slim to none.  We knew the Lord could work miracles, but even still, with the advice of doctors and my past medical history, we thought the chances were slim.  I had been on chemotherapy drugs for years because of a rare autoimmune disease. Knowing all this, William and I married knowing adoption was the probable way the Lord would grow our family.  And we were perfectly happy with that!

In 2010, Feven came home from Ethiopia to be a part of our family forever.  Our first is truly a blessing!  After adopting Feven, we longed for more but weren’t sure how that was going to happen.  At that time, we were still being told pregnancy wasn’t an option.  So, I continued to have a deep longing, as do most women, to add to our family, but we did not know how or when that would happen.

As the months rolled on, the Lord opened doors for us to consider pregnancy. This blew our minds! For so long, we were told this wasn’t going to happen.  I was taken off the chemotherapy drug that I had been taking weekly for over 15 years. My body didn’t seem to need it anymore.  So, just 6 months after bringing Feven home, the doors seemed to fly wide open.

From October 2010 to March 2012, we hoped that we could conceive, but our faith was tested many times.  Looking back, I knew the Lord could move this mountain, but it still seemed impossible.  We had lots of tests, challenges, tears and uncertainty.  We trusted the Lord, but we just didn’t know what the outcome would be or how He would work.

In March of this year, William and I decided we would start the process to adopt again. It didn’t seem to us that the Lord was going to use pregnancy as we had thought.  We were once again ready to add to our family, so we started to work toward adopting again…again not knowing how or when.  But, we began to get excited!

One Sunday, William returned from a trip to North Africa, and the following Monday morning, I told him I needed to go to the doctor.  I was convinced I had a UTI.  When I got there, the doctor insisted on doing a pregnancy test. I thought it was silly, but went ahead with their expensive, thorough testing.  The doctor returned a little while later with a little white test cupped in her hand.  The nurse was with her, and the staff listened in the background for my response.  It took me a minute to figure out what was going on. But, I was soon overwhelmed with joy!  I bent over in tears and said, “No way!”  The doctor reassured me it was accurate and that they performed two tests to be sure!

Our doctor (also a friend) called William to come in, telling him that she needed to “run some tests” and that I needed his support.  There is no telling what was running thru his mind at this point!  He had to get himself and Feven ready to run across the street to the doctor’s office.

I will never forget when he walked in the room, and I told him I am pregnant. The tears just rolled down his cheeks.  Definitely not the way I had envisioned us finding out, but it didn’t matter!  So thankful and overwhelmed with joy!

Now we are almost 17 weeks.  We are still shocked and amazed that the Lord allowed this to happen.  We can honestly say we had nothing to do with it because this truly was a miracle.

So, here we go!  Hopeful and excited!  The Lord continues to give us opportunities to trust Him.  We look forward to sharing how He works, and we pray we are faithful to His plan for our lives.