Tucker Times

~Ok, so this is my first "blog" as you would call it & I'm not quite sure how this works, but oh well, I'll still try anyway. :) My purpose for this blog I guess would be to share with family & friends the happenings of the Tucker household. It can be crazy around here sometimes but I choose to look at each day as a blessing! We have 3 children that keep us on our toes all the time. They are the joy of our life and they make us better parents every day! There was no way possible for us to ever know the love we would feel for our little babies until they were in our arms!

~We'll start with Mimi. We tried for a few months to get pregnant with Meghan to no avail. I know that seems only like a short time, but for us, each passing day that went by with no "positive" only made us long for a baby even more. It wasn't until someone told us to just relax & stop thinking about it that it happened. We had an idea but weren't "officially" told until the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Yes, the day the world stopped turning. Here we were in the midst of a national tragedy and national sorrow, but two people in our little neck of the woods were getting the best news anyone could ever hear. We mourned with the nation , but were excited about this new precious little life that was forming. We had a little scare at the beginning with hormone levels dropping which would indicate that I wouldn't be able to carry on with the pregnancy, but the Lord God kept our precious baby in His hands until she was born at 39 weeks. I also had gestaional diabetes almost immediately from the beginning so I was on insulin..yes, giving myself a shot every night, all the way until she was born. She was a beautiful baby girl that had us wrapped around her little finger way before she was ever brought in to this world. I remember just sitting in our recliner crying at the sight of those tiny little fingernails and toenails. I never had to "think" about what we would name her..I already knew even before I met her. Her name means Pearl & my God is a vow or God is my oath would be her name. She definitely was & still is our "little pearl"!!

~Now we've come to Bud. I found out I was pregnant with Matthew when Meghan had just turned a year old. Wow how that year flew by! Thankfully with this pregnancy I didn't have to be on insulin as long as I was with Meghan. David laughs & says that it was all the "girly" hormones going on. I remember when we found out that we were having a boy I was so scared. Why? because I had always heard that having a girl was harder than a boy, but we thought that having a girl was soo much easier..maybe because that's what we were used to. I remember thinking..."Oh my gosh, a boy! I don't know how to take care of a little boy. What if he pees all over me? I'm telling you I had silly questions like that, but at the time they weren't silly to me . I had great friends who said..just cover it up, when changing a diaper, with a burp cloth & he won't get you! (For those of you who have boys..you know exactly what I am talking about!!) Anway, I also worried and really cried because I was thinking..I know how much I love Mimi and I can't imagine having that much love for another little baby. I wondered if I would love him as much as her. I really stressed over that. I couldn't seem to fathom loving him as much. I was afraid that he would know it too. But as soon as he was born I automatically had this overwhelming love for this sweet baby boy and somehow I still felt the love for Mimi. It's only a God thing! Each passing day the love just continued to grow & grow for those two sweet blessings! His name means Gift of God & Beloved!

~Then there was Boogs. Mysteriously (haha-we really did want another baby, but didn't think it would be so soon) I was pregnant with our 3rd child. We were excited & overwhelmed at the same time because we thought..how are we gonna take care of three kids? I'm sure God was laughing at us because we were worried when He asks us "who can add a single hour or day by worrying"? It's funny to look back at it now! I did have gestational diabetes with Boogs too, but I didn't have to be on the insulin with him until almost the end. With this pregnancy, I didn't have to worry about not loving him because I was constantly chasing after my two little M&M's. I knew without a shadow of a doubt that I did have and would love this little man as much as I loved my other two. When Boogs was born, this blond haired, blue eyed little bundle of joy loved me despite the fact that my love for him was being shared with two older siblings. He was my caboose, my baby! His name means Like the Lord and Manly or Courageous . At that moment we then thought ...Now we have a new adventure....how to raise three under the age of three?