Life, currently

Man, oh man… the perfectionist in me hates taking pauses and not putting out ‘regular content’. But then again… this whole blog is about knocking perfectionism off it’s high-horse and recognizing that life isn’t always cookie-cutter. So here’s to the lop-sided, still doughy-in-the-middle, soggy and deformed cookies that ALWAYS show up on my baking sheet whenever I try to bake something :) Cheers!

We owe you the beautiful and miraculous, completely unexpected and still so surreal story of the morning I took a pregnancy test and saw two beautiful blue lines on it. I promise to sit down and write that out for you. If anything, I want her (yep… it’s a she!) to be able to read it one day - to read this entire blog… start to finish… and know all that led up to her supernatural conception and existence. So yes… it will come.

But alas…. let me catch you up to TODAY… and then we can dip our feet in the cool spring water of ‘yesterdays’ another time :)

Presently, we are 29 weeks pregnant. In SO many ways… it still doesn’t feel real to me. If it weren’t for the very prominently protruding belly I’m wearing, daily, and the very regular gymnastic performances taking place inside that protruding belly… I wouldn’t even probably still believe it. But it’s true - she’s real - and she’s healthy and growing and remains our beautiful seed of fulfilled promises. She’s our daily reminder of how GOD is the GOD of the ‘impossibles’ and a daily reminder, we hope, to others that He can and does do miracles. Part of why we started ‘We’re in Process’ was to allow a timeline - a ticker tape - a dotted line - a trail of cookie crumbs - that would take people from start to finish of our journey. We had NO idea it would end up this way. We just wanted, however it ended up, to allow people to see the start, in between, and end of our journey so they would find some sort of recognizable voice for their own journey.

So here we are… 29 weeks pregnant… enjoying every kick, every appointment, every hormonal day, every sleepless night and every food craving (can someone get me some bacon and a slushy, please?). We are getting little girl’s room ready for her arrival. I love opening the door and seeing her tiny little clothes hanging up in the closet and smelling the fresh wooden crib against the wall.

We’re going to keep you along for our journey, if you still want to be :) I’m sure parenthood has many more things to process, be honest and candid about, and find some companionship in.

One thing that we’ll be adding to our blog is some content about our faith. Faith is a big part of our life and I think too often it’s approached as ‘concrete’ for people. You can hang out on Facebook for 5 minutes and you’ll come across a whole herd of cyber-know-it-alls arguing about religion, the Bible, God and humanity. They’ll present information as ‘facts’ and ridicule any opposing idea, philosophy or question. We just don’t subscribe to that. We believe GOD is a person and that faith is a relationship with that person… therefore, there’s processes to relationship: learning, expanding, exchanging and embracing mystery. Because we live in a present society that worships it’s own opinions, we wanted to offer something different - the opportunity to approach faith from a place of ‘process’, rather than from perfection, performance or preciseness. What we’re hoping for by adding this content is that you’ll find a secret place where you feel comfortable to be able to take a journey in your own thoughts and heart - where you can ask questions, explore possibilities, be introduced to new ideas and discover personal ‘truths’ without feeling the pressure to be ‘right’, defensive or protective. We want to simply open our lives, minds and hearts up to let you see into this part of our process, as well.

So… there’s that. An intro to our heart for the additional content we’ll give you an ‘inside look’ into.

Until next time, friends! We promise to TRY to not disappear for so long, again :)

Much love,

Jonathan and Bree