An Unexpected Answered Prayer

When I was a little girl I remember thinking and praying for pretty specific things in my life. I would pray for my future husband that I assumed I would meet in college and get married soon after graduation. I always wanted a big family with our first child born a few years after I was married and then the next child a couple years later. I'm not sure why I had these specific things in my head. I'm guessing because I grew up with parents who met in college and married soon after they graduated and that, in my little child mind, was what I knew to be the beginning of a strong loving marriage. I had siblings that were close in age and I loved it! So when I met R in college, got engaged 2 months before graduation and married 7 months after graduation it seemed as though the beginning of what I prayed for and imagined to be my life had begun. Four and a half years after we got married we welcomed our first beautiful baby girl home. It seemed as though everything I prayed for and dreamed about in regards to my future family was forming. Now almost six years into our marriage another answered prayer, though unexpected, has been answered. To anyone in the blogging world who may not have heard we would like to officially announce that come March we will be welcoming our second baby into our family. A and this baby will be 1 yr and 9 months apart which happens to be exactly what my older but youngest sister is to me. We can't wait to meet this little one and experience the adventure he or she is sure to take us on!!