God and his people are so good

I have been needing to blog since my first post to say a lot of things that are on my mind. However my family from Maryland were coming for a visit this weekend and it was a great task to get the house ready for company. I am not complaining because believe me, I need the incentive nowadays to clean the toilets!!
I want to first share with you how my morning started. I was going to get to sleep in until 8:00 and my honey came in the room at 7:00 - I said "now why are you coming in here at 7:00?" (in a sweet voice of course). He said your friends have done something special for you. So I get up and look outside in my front yard and there are pink and white baloons surrounding my sidewalk with prayers attached to them. We got the girls up and my Mother and Father in law came outside and I felt the presence of God and my friends all around us. The girls were excited and loved Anna and Kathryn's art work. I read prayer after prayer and was overwhelmed by the love we have in our lives. Thank you to my friends and thank you to God for placing them all in my life - without God or you we could not get through this. The girls cut each balloon which was a symbol of that prayer and thought going to Heaven. I have never been touched by something so much. Chris of course got it on video and we will have that memory of love and prayers for Mary Grace forever!
The next thing I wanted to share is how moved I am by the comments on my blog. You are all so wonderful. I am sad however to find more and more sweet Mommies and families that are going through this or something similar. I have added a few more names to my blog for you to visit and add to your prayers. I truely wish we were the only case of this t-18 but we are not by far so we share in prayers, faith, hope and love for all of our babies. May God help all my new friends and their babies through their difficult time - my heart aches for each of them.
The thing that I am reminded of is... this is what life is all about. Lifting each other up, praying for each other - not just in the hard times but in the good times. I prayed to God last night about how proud he must be of all his children. His children are holding on to him, depending on him and witnessing to others about his love and Grace - even in the darkest times possible people are finding purpose, the angels are rejoicing I know. Mary Grace is reminding me of this daily - well hourly honestly and I am thankful for her and everything she has already brought to me.
I am not sleeping that well....mostly because when I wake up and Mary is moving around I do not want to go back to sleep to miss any of it. I cherish every kick of her precious club feet. The other night I woke up and started to feel the soreness of my hips like I did with Kailey and Allison - and thought okay so this begins. I started to complain to a friend the next day about my hips hurting and I had to take it back. I would take my hips hurting and keeping me up forever if I could just keep her with me. I want this pregnancy to last forever because when it's over we have to say goodbye to our sweet girl. But...that's selfish I know.....I know she is the one out of all of us that will never have to suffer the things this fallen world gives to us, she will be with Jesus - our ultimate prize. Pray that I can remember that when the time comes.
I had a question on my blog - I was 14 weeks when the talk of all of this started but it was confirmed at 18 weeks that she had T-18.
Well, I am going to go to Dallas with my husband for a night away while family is here. God knew I needed those prayers this morning, now I feel I can actually enjoy our time today and tonight, that we can feel uplifted and encouraged by the outpouring of love from our friends.
Thank you so much for everything, mostly for your faithfulness to God and to us! God is so good, God is so good, God is so good, he's so good to me!!