Chaos Chronicles

Dear Friends and Family,

The leaves are still off of the trees but the cold has started to subside a little, at least here in Pennsylvania! There have also been a slew of birthdays this month! So Happy Birthday to you! We thought now would be a good time to give everyone an update on how we are doing.

As most of you know, in August we moved to Pennsylvania. We really enjoy it here. The town we live in reminds us a lot of South Lancaster. We are looking into buying a house 2 doors down from our friends Rick and Aimee. For those of you who are saying “GASP THEY ARE NEVER COMING BACK”, don’t worry. Just because we buy a house doesn’t mean we will stay there for ever..we do plan to rent it out and move again sooner or later.

On the job front, Ben has spent a few months unemployed back in August, where he was able to write a good deal on his many stories and even finished 3 short stories and wrote a great deal on a book in the fantasy genre. God continued to provide for us during that time and then sometime in October He also provided Ben with a job similar to Amsa, but he’s inside most of the time, instead of on the trucks. I have acquired some webdesign work and I am in the process of updating my business site www.nytdesignstudios.com and I’m also doing some selling on ebay as well. Please check out ebay user ID: Murishani if you feel like spending some moolah.

Paul is doing very well in school. He can read practically anything you put in front of him. We are reading “The Little Prince” right now. It’s his first chapter book. He is starting to do his adding and subtracting in his head and has learned to count money. We also were stargazing a few days ago and Paul got to see Mars and Orion’s Belt. Paul is getting pretty big. You can check out some of his most recent pictures at our online photo album at www.lisaandben.com/pics.

We can’t believe he will be 7 in July! We already have one of his birthday presents in the works! Only a few days before Paul’s birthday we will be expecting the arrival of our little Ethan or Angelina! That’s right folks (for those of you who didn’t already find out due to those loose lips!!!), We are pregnant! I am going to be 18 weeks on Tuesday. I am scheduled for an ultrasound on March 5th and we are hoping to find out the sex then! If you want to stay up-to-date on my pregnancy you can check out my pregnancy journal at www.lisaandben.com/peapod.

We are sorry that we didn’t announce it sooner, but with the 2 miscarriages, we were a bit wary about telling anyone too early. I have already had an ultrasound at 16 weeks (too early to tell the sex) and my midwife said that everything looked great! The baby was right on track! All my test have come back great as well. The baby’s heartbeat is in the low 140′s and he/she wiggles around a lot…but mostly at night. Yesterday and today were the first days i have felt more than one or two light kicks. We are all looking forward to this ones arrival in July. On a side note, our friends Rick and Aimee are also due in July with their 2nd, (just a few days before us) so it’s been fun to share this pregnancy with them.

As I write this I realize once again how blessed we all are. Life continues to have its “ups and downs”, but overall there is a great deal to be grateful for. We hope you are all well, and look forward to an email from you to let us know how YOU are doing! And as always you can check out our latest news on our website www.lisaandben.com

Our love and warmest regards,

Lisa, Ben, and Paul

Faith’s birthday is 22 days from now. She would have been 1 year old on the 14th of January. I wonder how we would have celebrated her first birthday. I wonder what tv characters she would have liked..Veggie Tales? Elmo? Dragon Tales? The Tweenies?(GASP!) I wish I could have been given the chance to know. Now tomorrow I’m going to be 10 weeks pregnant with my 4th pregnancy. I’m coming up on some hard dates. 8 days from now I will be 11weeks and 1 day. That is the same time that William died. I’m glad that it’s after Christmas because I don’t want to ruin another holiday, But now I have January 1st as the goal to get past and then January 14th is Faith’s First Birthday. I really really hope and pray that this pregnancy doesn’t follow my last two

I can’t believe it! I really and truely can’t believe it! I am actually pregnant! I’m 4 Weeks today! I took the test Monday night at 9pm. I wasn’t going to test till Friday, but I had to pee and all of a sudden a voice in my head said, TEST! So I did.. and the plus sign came up right away! I couldn’t believe it! I called Ben into the bathroom and told him. We both hugged and cried a little. We were very happy, but we couldn’t make a big thing of it because my sister is staying till Dec. 1st, and we don’t want anyone knowing yet. After I told Ben, I told Paul. Some people would say it’s too early to tell him, but I don’t think so. I told him and he was so so very excited. He jumped up and down and said he was very happy! Then he kissed the baby and asked when the baby would be born. I told him that the baby is going to be due a few days before his birthday in July! He thought that was cool. I just wanted to thank everyone for the prayers and support you have all given me and I ask that you continue to keep me and my baby in your prayers. Please pray that this baby is healthy and that I will have him/her in my arms in 8 months. I still haven’t been to the dr. because I have to call and find out if I still have insurance, and if not, I have to reapply for it. Please pray that it goes well there too. I’ll write more later! I have to go lay down!
If you are reading this, and you are a family member or close friend, and I haven’t told you about me being pregnant, that’s because we aren’t telling anyone till Febuary. Please don’t spread the news around.

The Positive Line ( | ) on my test dissapeared, now just the negative (-) line is there. Does that mean anything?!? The test read positive for 3 days and now the pos. line is gone. It was the clear blue easy test that shows the plus sign instead of the 2 lines. I wonder if that makes a diff. I’m going to go out and get another test and take it again just to make me happy. I wouldn’t think that the test would come out pos. right away if I wasn’t pg. And I took it 3 days early, so that might have something to do with it. Anyway, I’m going to get one of the same kind that i took with faith and william..i would love to get the clesr blue test that says pregnant! I guess I just find this hard to believe! I’ve waited so long for this! Well, I guess that is all for now. I have to get back to finding a skin for the pregnancy blog!

I can’t believe it! I really and truly can’t believe it! I am actually pregnant! I’m 4 Weeks today! I took the test Monday night at 9pm. I wasn’t going to test till Friday, but I had to pee and all of a sudden a voice in my head said, TEST! So I did.. and the plus sign came up right away! I couldn’t believe it! I called Ben into the bathroom and told him. We both hugged and cried a little. We were very happy, but we couldn’t make a big thing of it because my sister is staying till Dec. 1st, and we don’t want anyone knowing yet. After I told Ben, I told Paul. Some people would say it’s too early to tell him, but I don’t think so. I told him and he was so so very excited. He jumped up and down and said he was very happy! Then he kissed the baby and asked when the baby would be born. I told him that the baby is going to be due a few days before his birthday in July! He thought that was cool. I just wanted to thank everyone for the prayers and support you have all given me and I ask that you continue to keep me and my baby in your prayers. Please pray that this baby is healthy and that I will have him/her in my arms in 8 months. I still haven’t been to the dr. because I have to call and find out if I still have insurance, and if not, I have to reapply for it. Please pray that it goes well there too. I’ll write more later! I have to go lay down!

Well I’m in the 2 WW again! I’ll find out September 5th if I am or not…If I’m not, I’m going to donate eggs to the Women’s Institute at Pennsylvania Reproductive Associates. It will put off my baby making for a month or so, but it’s ok. If there is a way for me to find out how many eggs got left behind (and they are less than 3) I will just go ahead and try that cycle too. They harvest the eggs before I’m supposed to O. Anyway, I have a feeling I’m going to have a girl, but it’s very confusing because I could swear that God was telling me that we’d have a boy. Well we will see I guess.. Our bedroom here is big enough for a bassi…. AHhhhhhhhhhh!! That’s what I forgot at home! The bassinet!! Well I can go back and get it.. Hmm.. I don’t think I posted that we moved to PA. We have been here since the 10th of August. We decided to move and then moved all in 2 1/2 weeks! It was fast. But we have our OWN PLACE now!! Anyway I’m off to look into some telecommuting jobs.. if you know of any REAL work at home jobs (not MLM’s or online mall or independant distributor stuff..i’m talking real jobs but done on the internet) please let me know!!

Well, Aunt Flo is here. I was 4 days early too.. that makes it a 28 day cycle, which puts O either earlier or I DID O on the 25th (which i’m sure I did) and there just wasn’t a good luteal phase. If I O’d earlier it was a timespan of 3 days that we didn’t bd.. Oh well, ther’s always next month… and now I can coneive in my new home! Thanks for all the prayers! I will be O’ing a week and a half after we move! We are moving to PA! It’s almost 6 hours from here, but it’s a move we had to make. Ben has a better paying job now too! We move this Saturday. Please pray that is all goes smoothly.

Usually when I’m prego, I continue to have the EWCM.. and tons of it.. but right now I’m as dry as a bone…. sigh… only 9 more days till I find out.. unless i get an early test

We are getting out of here! For those of you that don’t know, dh and I are living with his parents. His father doesn’t want us to have kids, so it would have been a bad idea to even be prego while living here. But now we are moving! Ben got a new job in PA.! It’s 5-6 hours from here in MA. That means I can hide a pregnancy till I’m ready to tell everyone! I think having everyone over for Christmas would be cool! I’d be 24 weeks by then! Wow! I’d have them come for christmas and then after christmas I’d send out the cards to everyone else with the ultrasound picture in it! OOoooo I can’t wait. I hope i’m prego!! only 10 more days to wait… I hope I can make it that long lol!

Ok, it’s the 2 week wait now! Oh boy this is going to be the longest 2 week wait I’ve ever had!!! I’m going to start designing the background for my pregnancy journal.. hopefully i’ll be using it soon!! I’ll post another update on the 8th!! unless I find out sooner!!! ONe thing i’ll let you in on now is that I’ve been peeing like a racehorse! lol.. but i think it’s a little too early for that! We’ll find out either way in 2 weeks!