The Fanning Four

"Love is the answer at least for most of the questions in my heart, like Why are we here? And where do we go?And how come it's so hard? It's not always easy and sometimes life can be deceiving. I'll tell you one thing, it's always better when we're together". I love the lyrics to Jack Johnson's song, Better Together because it addresses an issue that is close to my heart- "questions" . My greatest emotional and spiritual struggle in life is worry and with worry comes many difficult questions. In fact, these questions at times have caused great distress in my life as I struggled with the what ifs, whys, whens, and hows of life. Miraculously my worries have not consumed me during this pregnancy but I still find myself asking many questions and like this songs says, love is the answer for most of these. Will I be a good mom? Love is the answer Will she know her Creator? Love is the answer How will our marriage fare in the adventure of parenthoo...

It's kind of like when you graduate from High School.... The questions are always the same: Where are you going to college? What is your major? What career do you want? You find yourself answering the same questions over and over and wish you had a shirt that listed the answers so you could stop feeling like a broken record. This is also true when people know you're expecting a baby: When is the baby due? Do you know what gender it is? What's the name going to be? How are you feeling? Not that I mind dishing out the answers (what proud mom doesn't?!?). But I figured I'd create a blog so I can answer all your questions, share the latest news, and post pictures. So, to start: August 9th (but we're hoping for 8-8-08), it's a girl!!!, her name is Bethany Grace, and I feel great!!! Here's me at 14 weeks: Here's baby Bethany: And here's her room (in progress):