Anticipation

Anticipation - 1. The act of anticipating. 2. An expectation. 3. Foreknowledge, intuition, and presentiment. 4. The use or assignment of funds, especially from a trust fund, before they are legitimately available for use. 5. Music Introduction on a weak beat of one note of a new chord before the previous chord is resolved. I want to take a few minutes to talk about this word, a word that has changed us as a family the past 9 months. Tara and I were completely out of the baby business. We are very proud of the way that Alexa and P.J. are turning out and continuing to progress through life. Alexa is a very driven, self motivated student and athlete. She is more disappointed in a bad grade than we are. P.J. is a closet nerd, she watches wheel of fortune and jeopardy and reads all the time. She is a sponge of information even when it appears she isn't paying attention she is. BOth of them make us proud in different ways. But, we were completely content with our little 4 person family. Everyone has their own bedroom(one bathroom is rough I will admit) but we were happy. Then, something happened. One morning Tara came to me and said I need to tell you something, what I said. I am pregnant she told me. I didn't react, I just told her let's go to the doctor and make sure before we tell anyone. As luck would have it I sat at a softball game that afternoon making fun of and harassing Freddy and Renee Allen(one of my favorite things to do lol) I was harassing them about their middle child Kaylee. I told them they baby their youngest and spoil their oldest jokingly. Just then, P.J. stopped what she was doing leaned over and told me, "That's called the middle child syndrome Jeff, that's why we aren't having any more kids right?" I was speechless couldn't react, couldn't get a noise to come out so I just laughed. Well, later that week we announced to P.J. that she was going to be a middle child. We went from completely content in life to anticipating an expansion. Tara is probably the best pregnant woman I know. She doesn't slow down one bit, she only put on 18 pounds total. She just keeps on plugging along. She was at the races, at ball games, doing housework and tonight she is going to a flag football game, and a basketball game with me and teh girls. This time tomorrow we will be in a hospital room preparing to have her induced, and praying for a smooth delivery of baby Braelyn(not sure that is teh official spelling lol) and a smooth delivery for mom. I will post a picture later of P.J.'s door, she made a count down to CHristmas but Tara and Alexa don't even care about Christmas they have been counting down to tomorrow, December 18th. Alexa already got all of her make up work and assignments done so that she can miss the rest of the week. Tara is texting me almost every hour telling me how slow her days are going. I anticipate that we will not get much sleep tonight as we toss and turn excited to welcome a new baby girl to teh family officially tomorrow. Thank you God for taking a fast paced, wide opened life like mine and spreading a little extra joy this season. Taking us from a life of day to day, wide opened never slowing down to a life of anticipating God's greatest gift to us, another little life. THanks for reading and have a great day. Odds are I won't be blogging as often over the next several days, but I will be tweeting and updating on facebook!