A Taste of Italy

In not much more than a month Bryce and I will be boarding a plane to Italy! Our wonderful sister-in-law told us of a place called Cinque Terre. She spent a semester in Italy and this happened to be her most recommended place. It is right on the coast of The Mediterranean with a cluster of five villages. The pictures are amazing! We were able to find really cheap plane tickets. With money we saved we can now spend more money on food and wine!! Now we just have to figure out where we will be staying when we get there.

Ciao

Choose a Life of Faith not Worry

Bryce and I were out shopping on Saturday and came across this saying :Choose a Life of Faith not Worry." I just love it and had to share it with you all. I feel after our loss I have been able to control my worrying. Most of you who know we well know that I worry about everything, seriously, everything. It was always something I didn't like about myself but just thought it was my nature. I knew that it was wrong, worrying about everything was a choice, I chose to feel that way.So I now choose Faith and I can feel so much peace now. I still have moments of doubt and worry but they don't last as long. So I challenge those of you who also spend a majority of your time worrying like I did to choose Faith and see what peace God will give you.

It has been almost three weeks since loosing our precious Faith. Bryce is back at work and I am working only a couple days a week. I am enjoying having some free time to meet with people and get some house work done. We are trying to make a new normal in our lives right now, trying to get used to living each day with this grief. It has only been three weeks, but it is still frustrating how hard this is. Everything I do reminds me of her, I go to the store and everywhere I turn is pregnant women and babies, being at home I think of how empty our house is and how I long for it to be filled with cries of a baby. I don't want any of you to think that when I see a pregnant girl or a newborn baby that I am bitter, it just makes me sad and I think of Faith. I am very happy for everyone who gets to experience the joy of parenthood and I know that God has a plan for everything and His plan was for Faith to not grow up in this world but in heaven with Him. We are moving along everyday and keeping a hope in our hearts that someday we will get to have a baby. We will never, ever replace Faith she will always be our firstborn and our hopes is that she is the firstborn of many younger brothers and sisters.