{ Secret Spilling }

You have got to see this.

I mean before you read another word.

This has been the elephant in the room of my mind for the last month.

Keeping this gigantic secret from you. It's been really, really hard, not to drop hints for all of us I think. Especially on your tougher days. It would drive me nuts...and I would want to blurt out: " but Leslie, do you even know how loved, prayed for and thought of, you are? " Knowing that there was this whole secret world brewing, one that was was about to blessing the living daylights out of you and your precious foursome.

What a ride this has been for you...I have been so amazed and challanged to watch you hold on for dear life to the Lord, and continue to hope, always looking for the sliver lining even through the wild and crazy ups and downs of the last nine months.

I am so inspired by the way you pull joy out of the most difficult days.

The way you laugh can with me on the phone while I knew you were about to go crazy with the itching.

The way you love Rylan, even after she pulled your skirt down in the post office, etc. ( Naughty little pistol )

The way you so obviously adore Nick. And vice versa.

The way you see life so beautifully and live it to the hilt.

I am more convinced than ever in the power of the verse in Acts that says:

" It is more blessed to give than receive."

And wow, are these women ever awesome. I totally adore and look up to each and every one of them. What a example of the body of Christ, expressed by ladies who have never met face to face, but know each other as you once said, by heart.

Here is a little poem I wrote for the Baby Poem game I am hosting over at your shower blog. I am afraid it might sound a little cheesy but you get the idea. I now know that I do not have a poetic bone in my body. ;)

The world will soon be a much cuter place...
With the arrival of your sweet baby face
We wonder so much just who you will be
little boy Cade, mini-man, little bean

Mellow and calm like your Daddy?
Or maybe more like your big sister, spunky and full of zip?
One thing we pray, that you stay oh so safe
A second little miracle baby
Tucked away tight, each day growing stronger
As God tenderly holds you, as He makes a way
Taking up space just a little bit longer.
Safe and secure inside your beautiful Momma.

So ready or not here I come
To steal your hearts completely
To add one more precious life to your happily ever after.
To be loved up and kissed up and brought up by you
Entirely on from this, my happy little birth day.