Thankful

It's funny this comes at a time when everyone is talking about what they are thankful for. The past two days have been exhausting. I spent most of Monday in bed, or the bath, or just laying on the couch with severe stomach and back pains. It seemed to pass by the evening and I was feeling much better. Tuesday came and I decided to head to the chiropractor so the kids and I ventured out, went there then to the grocery store. I was feeling pretty good minus occasional contractions. Then around 3 it really hit me and I had non stop contractions for an hour. I decided to head in to see my midwife, kids and all! Ross was working out of town for the day so I was not able to reach him until about 5pm when I was leaving the Dr.'s office. She said I had started dilating and with contractions she wanted me to head to the hospital for monitoring, testing and an ultrasound. Poor Ross was still two hours away, however I'm pretty sure he made it back much sooner! I am so thankful my mom was still in town and I took the kids to my sister in laws and brother's house where my mom and Katie fed them dinner and took care of everything.
I have to say God is sure amazing. At the clinic she was really concerened for pre-term labor and I'm only 27 weeks so we were really concerned too because things were not looking very good.
After two hours of monitoring, testing and an ultrasound she was amazed at my results. Not only was I no longer dilated, but my contractions stopped, and my cervix was longer than they could have even hoped for in a normal pregnancy. Praise God! Thank you to all who were praying for us. I was sent home able to kiss my little ones goodnight and rest. I have been instructed to just take it easy, but no bed rest, yay! So I'm doing my best, but it's hard with 4 little kids to "take it easy" I'm not even sure what that means. There is so much to be done! So I'm trying, sitting here on the couch and enjoying just watching the kids play, I love their imaginations! This picture was posted by a friend of mine of facebook and I thought it appropriate. :-)