Recovering from Our Miscarriage
Last month, Christine surprised me with the best news I had heard all year: we're going to have another baby! I was overjoyed as were all of the kids. I knew I wanted another baby, but I didn't talk about it much because it wasn't something Christine and I had agreed on together. I was perfectly happy having 5 terrific children anyway. But hearing that we were having another one got everyone in our family so very excited. The kids were all cheering about it, and we made this cute announcement for Facebook: Several weeks later, we were hit with the horrible news that our baby didn't survive past 6 weeks in utero. We had never experienced a miscarriage before. In our minds, that was hardly even a possibility. And now it was a reality. The hardest part for me was telling the kids. We told them each individually. Angel rushed into our arms and cried with us. Harmony sobbed and said through her tears "We were so excited." Chase handled it like a c