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Its a WHAT?!?!?!?

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Today was that day that has been anticipated in our family for the past few months!!!  We knew that our baby was looking healthy, we knew that things were going good..........but now, we know our baby is a GIRL!! This news is weird.  So weird.  It feels like a dream to me.  For as long as I can remember I have wanted a daughter.......Being the oldest of four girls I had a lot of experience with baby girls.......and I always wanted one of my own.   Fast forward a decade or so, and I find myself the mother of two boys.  Boys are Boys.  They are crazy, wild, loud, destructive.........they are boys, and I know how to handle and mother boys. As the doctor confirmed that it was indeed a little {she} swimming about in my belly, I almost could not believe it! What am I going to do with one of those?  I am a little nervous.  But mostly SO SO SO SO SO SO excited!!!  We have had a battle going between the boys the last couple months......Paysen wanting a boy, Parklen, a sister!  The new

catch up

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I have begun to write this post over and over for more than six weeks now.....always deciding to delete what I have written. Finding that much of what I had to say sounded far too much like an invitation to my very own pity party.. So many things have happened over the past 6 weeks......too much to recount.  Life seems to go by more quickly than I can even comprehend and no matter how I may try....I just cannot seem to slow it down.  The end of November marks many things for our family…I turned another year older, we celebrated thanksgiving. but the thing that stands out most to me is how the end of last month marks exactly four years since we first carried our baby through the doors of a hospital. Parklen is having treatments every four weeks for a while in Denver.....which means lots of trips for me.  His health is not something that I feel like I can talk about lately.  When I start to speak of things that doctors have said, or tests have shown....I find myself upset and wor