A couple of months ago we received a little surprise. Last week Larkspur, Beatrix, and I listened intently as my midwife searched for our new baby’s heartbeat. I held my breath, listening for the quick pitter-patter above my own thump-thump. Eventually the sound we were waiting for filled the little room and I listened as my midwife counted quietly under her breath, each precious beat. I exhaled as my eyes filled with tears. Sometimes the unexpected gift is the one most precious.
After my appointment, Larkspur and I did the obvious thing, and stopped in at the yarn store to buy yarn for the new baby while the others went on to lunch. This little one will join us in the fall, the perfect time of year for a knitter’s baby to be born. Larkspur and I each chose one skein of yarn. She will knit a hat, and I, a tiny sweater.
After lunch it was decided that rather than face I-95 and sitting for hours in traffic to get back home, that we’d take the long way through Maryland. We stopped at Purse State Park and spent hours hunting for fossils instead. It was a perfect way to end the day. We often take the long way home, and we are always glad that we did.
Oh, congratulations! A new baby is so precious. I hope you feel good and strong all the way. What a blessing for you and your family.
Yay! Congratulations!
Congratulations to you all! You guys sure do make beautiful children! 😉 Love to see kids wrangling snakes! I am a wildlife biologist by training and I love when parents don’t fill their childrens’ heads with fear about snakes.
Congratulations!!
congratulations sweetie!!! I am thrilled for you and your family 🙂
Oh Ginny, how wonderful! What exciting news 🙂 I am so happy for you all. Such a blessing.
Congratulations! Wonderful news.
Oh joy! So happy for you.
Oh, Ginny, that is the very best kind of news! I will be keeping you and the new little one in my prayers!
Congratulations! And I love your haircut.
Best Wishes!…I don’t know how this will be possible- but put your feet up!
Congratulations on the new little one!
Congratulations!
Aw, how exciting! Congratulations! Looks like a beautiful day.
Congratulations Ginny. New baby is always a blessing to the whole family. Now that you have older kids you will find that there is , always , so much love in their hearts also for the new little one, it is so sweet to see. (We have eleven children, in a small house also:)) Large family is truly a blessing, even with all the work that comes with it. Hope you are feeling well and thanks for your blog, I so enjoy reading it!
Yay! Happy 9 months!
Congratulations 🙂 Such lovely news! xoxo
Ginny, what wonderful news! I’m so excited for you! I know that feeling, the anxious waiting for the swish-swish sound of Baby’s heartbeat. Actually hearing it brings a flood of emotions for a mother: relief, excitement, anticipation. What a beautiful family you are building. CONGRATULATIONS!
(And the fossil hunting just made this geology-lover’s heart skip a beat!)
What a wonderful surprise! Congratulations! 🙂
All the best!
Congratulations! Sounds like the perfect day in every way!
Yay! how joyfully wonderful! To hear that heart beat is something very special! May God bless this littlest one!
Congratulations!!!!! very wonderful news!!!:)
Congratulations, Ginny, to you and the whole family.
oh, ginny!!!!
my heart is bursting. i hope you are feeling well, stronger by the day. spring days for new heartbeats. spot on.
xo,
molly
Oh WOW, congratulations, welcoming a precious new little life! I know I am a total stranger, but I’m actually sitting here in tears of happiness for you. <3 (That might possibly be a dangerous sign of broodiness on my part…) 😀 Much love, and our prayers for your wellness as you carry this tiny human. 🙂 xxx
Congratulations to you and your whole family! Beautiful surprise <3
Oh yes dear Ginny, unexpected surprises are the best.
Congratulations to you, Jonny and all your beautiful family.
A new soul coming, how wonderful!
Oh how truly exciting! Congratulations 🙂
Congratulations, how exciting. A new baby is the very best surprise 🙂
Congratulations, how very exciting. A new baby is the very best surprise 🙂
Congratulations! Oh what exciting news. I think your blog must have been overwhelmed with visitors because of your title. It took forever to load and get to the bottom to see the news that I was hoping it was going to say 🙂 God Bless you and your family. Now I am going to go back up and see all the pictures again. Blue sea glass!!! I did see that on my scroll down.
Many congratulations and blessings to you and your family!! We are just 2 months away from welcoming our second baby, and I’ve been knitting furiously – summer babies need (light) woolens, too, right? 😉
-Jaime
That is exactly what happened to me! I saw the title and was hooked! Yay!
Congratulations, Ginny!
Congratulations! We have surprise #5 coming this fall too 🙂 I hope you are feeling better than I am!
Didn’t you make it. point to tell us all a little while back that you were not pregnant? Were you really and just didn’t know it yet!? Congratulations! What wonderful news!
I really wasn’t then! But yes, shortly thereafter I was….
congratulations!
So excited for another little soul! My 5th grandchild is due in the fall as well, but I must say that snake makes me very nervous!
Congratulations, it is good to start this new week reading your happy news!
Congratulations Ginny!
Hooray, indeed!! So much love to you, Ginny! (and I adore the shot of you and Bea with your yarn. You are such a beautiful pregnant lady.That dress is adorable, too!)
So exciting!!! wonderful news!!!
Congratulations! How exciting. 🙂
so beautiful! congratulations! baby news is the happiest news, always!!!
What a wonderful surprise! Congratulations!
Congratulations!!! Due with our own surprise in June. Hope you are feeling well!
How exciting!
A new addition to your loving family will make the world a better place!
So exciting! I hope you are feeling well & wish you all the best.
Oh, Ginny – congratulations!!
Congratulations! What wonderful wonderful news. 🙂
Hooray!