It has been a really challenging 14 weeks...there has been the challenge of the marathon, the many harvest festivals with cauliflowers coming out of our ears! We've had rememebrance services and memorials , we've had Christmas fairs and diocesan training plus funerals, baptisms a wedding and hundreds of services....not necessarily challenging in itself but it is when you discover you are pregnant!
At the beginning of September we discovered there may be a chance that I was pregnant though had given up hope of having any more children ....Marc and I were excited but then had to hide that excitement until the magic 12 week scan. That is why it has been a challenging 14 weeks ...trying to do all the joys of work with the joys of morning sickness (whoever named it that was having a laugh!) but also pretending that everything is ok has been the hardest thing I've ever had to do..I hate not being honest with people and it really felt that we weren't being honest.
The one amazing saving grace was that my best friend and his wife also found out the were having a baby...a day apart from us...not only a delight and a joy but a confidant and someone to empathise with.
It is still early days yet and we have a long way to go. The next few months and even years will be a challenge... Coping with work, being pregnant preparing for the future but it will also be immensely exciting ...what the future holds who knows but things will never be the same ! We feel blessed to again have been blessed with this opportunity and we feel so very grateful.
