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Incredibly honored, grateful, and humbled to represent the Christ Church Choir and sing with the LEGEND Dolly Parton tonight live on the CMA Awards!!! Also, just a casual mention of our choir in Rolling Stone, nbd. What a way to dive back in after having a baby 😉
Aiden was never a great eater or sleeper as a baby (he has just been full of energy since the second he was born), so we have been wonderfully surprised that Eliza sleeps and eats like a champ!! My mom has laughed as @scottkcrider and I have both separately said “we’ve heard about these newborns that just eat and sleep but didn’t really believe they existed.” Haha. But she is doing amazing, and I am especially grateful as my recovery has been much more difficult with a hard delivery and now mastitis. Nonetheless, we could not be more grateful to now be a family of four with this baby girl! 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
Eliza made her grand entrance at 12:13am on Sunday, October 6 measuring 8lb. 6oz. (2 whole pounds more than her brother!) and 21” long. . Her full name is Elizabeth Ann Crider, with Elizabeth meaning “my God is an oath” and “abundance,” which has deep meaning to us after our 2 losses last year, and Ann for my incredible great aunt Ann Smith, after whom I have always dreamed of naming a daughter. . The labor and delivery (and therefore recovery) definitely did not go quite as expected (though what ever does), but she is perfect, and we are all so very grateful!!
Happy FIVE YEAR Anniversary to the most amazing man I know!!! I am so grateful we get to do this life together. Getting to be loved by you and watching you as a father is a gift beyond measure. Although today is more of a quiet day as we are still on baby watch (come on already, baby girl!), there is no one else with whom I would rather do both the big joyful days or the hard days or these quiet daily days in between. I love you @scottkcrider!! . 📷: @kristinsweeting
The waiting. . Yesterday was a first as I got to experience serving as a lead-worshiper while being certain I was in early labor and would find myself at the hospital later that day. . I’m grateful to @katiepeslis for capturing this moment during rehearsal of breathing through what I hoped was an early contraction and choosing stillness even in the midst of music all around me in the surrender and wonder that this might be it. And yet the hours and hours all weekend long of what seemed to be progress eventually slowed and now we are back again to the waiting. . It’s a strange thing to be hoping for the pain to return. But in a metaphor for more areas of life than we often want to admit, there is such an acute awareness in labor that pain and working through the pain is what leads to progress. And its ceasing before it accomplishes what it must - while more physically pleasant - actually reveals that progress is stalled or lost. . However just as this pain is progress and the very real invitation to new life, the waiting has its own gift if we are willing to be present in it and to it. And though I am praying for any indication that “the time has finally come to be delivered,” I am trying to choose to be present in the waiting - to gather my strength, enjoy uninterrupted time with my boys, lean in, surrender the expectations, and rest knowing pain and the progress it brings will be here soon enough and both the waiting and the pain will be worth it to meet this miracle who is preparing for her own journey as am I.
Forced myself to let my picture be taken even though I feel like a giant balloon and have officially graduated into the only wear flip flops stage of pregnancy. Haha. Only 7.5 weeks until baby girl’s due date, though we have a hunch she is going to make an early entrance, which we certainly wouldn’t mind! Also, y’all, I’m going to start wearing a sign saying “Yes, I know October is far away. Yes, I know I look full term now. Yes, I am sure it’s not twins. 😬” I know people, especially strangers 🤷🏻‍♀️, probably mean well, but...bless their hearts. Regardless, I’m so grateful to be carrying this little miracle, and @scottkcrider, Aiden, and I cannot wait to meet you, baby girl!! (And we promise to give you a name hopefully before you are born. Ha)

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