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Hey folks
We’ve gotten some wonderful comments (through email mostly) on this post. Thanks to those who have responded. I just wanted to make it clear that this post was somewhat tongue-in-cheek. 🙂 We are so thrilled to have a fourth addition to our family – totaling six. And actually, we hope that God will continue to add to our family.
It was just sorta funny as we sat there in the hospital, holding healthy baby #4… thinking, “What are we getting ourselves into??!” 🙂 🙂 We know it will be great… it’s just pretty tiring at the moment!! 🙂
The only somewhat serious comment I wove in there was the one about the “string of good luck”. We experienced the loss of a child (before birth) in 2004. We greatly anticipated God adding that baby to our family, so the loss was painful. But God was with us, to be sure. Even still, this entire pregnancy, I kept waiting for the bad news. That we had lost another baby. I figured we had pushed the odds too far. Even when Julia was born, and she was blue and limp, I thought… “Well yeah. That makes sense. I knew that would happen.” I can not explain the enormous wave of emotion that came over me when she breathed, cried and turned a lovely shade of pink. I couldn’t say anything. I just cried.
So, part of me wonders how we can continue to defy the odds and have such healthy, beautiful babies. The other part knows its not up to me, and so I don’t even have to worry about it. 🙂
Pretty sure that side is going to win out, and, God willing, you just might see a few more Campbells in this world.
If He really thinks that’s a good idea. 😉
Look at it this way. For every kid you have, that’s one less kid that anyone else has to have. So you’re doing folks like the Chi’s a favour. 🙂