And then there was another little love.
There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bjork and I are so excited and nervous and just everything about this tiny bloom.
She’s a she (!!), and she’s 18 weeks, and we’re taking it one day at a time while staying cautiously hopeful that we will get to bring her home with us this fall.
To be honest, most days it’s hard to know exactly how to talk about this. Every sentence out of my mouth starts with “if” instead of “when.” Most women feel more safe the further along they are in a pregnancy, but I am acutely aware that there really is no safe zone ever. And that’s really not a good thing to know.
The one thing I do know for sure how to say is thank you so much for all your messages of love and support over the last year through the loss of our baby boy Afton. We will miss him forever, and you’ve carried that love so beautifully with us.
Even though it’s “just a food blog,” I have to say, you are all the best people on the internet. I can just feel it through the screen.
So here’s to new loves, old loves, and the rarity of each love in our lives. 💛
Baby girl says hello.
xo
Hi ,
I haven’t been on here in awhile. I had to go GF and fodmap safe and finally admit my Italian family recipes blog featured food I myself can’t eat.lol So now I am all about IBS safe foods. My point? I am revampling my old recipes to fit IBS guidelines and I am stuck trying to make up categories. Do you guys have any advice for category and tag titles for a new blog? (By the way, your cutie pie must be around 8 months – is that not the most adorable age? I think at that age, they get at least 1000 kisses a day!)
Just read in your most actual post “just a pregnancy thing” and started to search. Ohhh my wishes are with you! This time it workes out just the best! Love with you. Alles wird gut! Mohne (premiemom)
Hi Lindsay, I don’t know you but I’ve been reading your blog over the years. I’m so happy for you both with your second pregnancy. Wishing you all the best. A healthy baby girl. xxx
Endless love and luck to you both. I am so happy for you!!
Dear Lindsay,
you are so blessed. I have been following your blog for a couple of years now with all the ups and downs. I am so happy that the little baby girl is now about to join your family! I have wept with you and cried, have laughed and smiled about your posts and am always happy when a new post is online. Please know that you are in my heart and prayers for I truly hope that you will get to meet your beloved baby girl soon, safe, warm and cuddly.
Yours, Laura
I have been following you guys since forever and as I was reading this my heart is jumping for joy for both of you! Congrats! I wish you a happy and healthy pregnancy!
Congratulations on your baby girl! I don’t check the website regularly and just saw now that you’re expecting. So happy for you both! I’m sure big brother Afton will be looking down on his little sister and protecting her, her whole life. ❤️
Dear Lindsay & Bjork, I’m just catching up on your blog after a busy few months away, and how you’ve made me smile!!! May I extend hearty congratulations & blessings on your family in anticipation of your little bloom!!! My heart goes out to you for the little one gone, but never to be forgotten, and for the little one to come along to help heal your loss. May you always be happy and fulfilled! Xx
I never really comment but this is such a happy news! I read about your loss journey and I am tearing up while reading this. I am 10 weeks pregnant and scared every day that something might go wrong. Sending positive thoughts your way!!
Fingers crossed for you three. I lost three babies before I had my two boys and it was a dark time. With my older son, I thought something would go wrong right up until I was holding him in my arms (and even after that it was hard to shake my anxiety). He’s 9 now, though. And I know many moms who lost babies and went on to have healthy little ones. Hoping for you two!!!
Thinking of you guys and sweet Afton and your new baby girl… I think you are probably right around week 23 of this pregnancy by now? That must be a lot to navigate for you guys… I’m holding you all in my heart and wishing you the very very best.
This is such great news! I hadn’t checked the site in awhile and I intentionally came back just to see if there may be a post with news of a new baby! I’m more than excited for you two! You seem like a great couple and deserve all the best! Praying for you both and the baby!
Lindsay,
I’m new to your blog (love the recipes by the way – YUM) and when I read your recent baby announcement, I went back and read your entries on Afton. When reading your entries I can feel the intense love you have for your little boy. I can’t imagine the pain you went through (and are still feeling I’m sure!), and only have a glimmer of experience from having a miscarriage at 11 weeks in the summer of 2016. To read that you are expecting again is a beautiful miracle. I pray that Afton’s little sibling continues to grow and thrive and reach your arms safely in the near future.
(*side note* the day of your devastating loss was the same day I found out I was expecting my rainbow baby boy, who is now 9 months old. It feels so bizarre and weird that the world keeps turning for everyone else when your own has crashed into a million pieces.)
Lots of love and well wishes,
Melissa
Blessings to you all!!! This is wonderful news and I am sooooo happy for you! Ya’ll will be awesome parents! We adopted our little Belarussian about 13 years ago…she’s 15 now and what a difference she has made in our lives! Let her color outside of the lines and get her hands dirty:) Love to you from Texas…
Dear Lindsay,
Like so many others here I’ve been following your recipes as well as your stories. I am so so so dearly happy for you and Bjork! Sending the most positive and healthy energy your way!!
We have followed your blog since a while back and never have stop praying for your family, congrats.
Dear Lindsay and Björk, even though I have never experienced such a big loss as you two did, I think I can understand your mixed feelings: happy and scared at the same time. Like everyone else who replied, I am with you hoping and praying for a safe pregnancy. And your little Afton is still in my thoughts. With love from Holland.
This baby girl is being welcomed into a beautiful family.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! Despite your fears, enjoy this season!!! Excited for you guys <3
Love & best wishes to you all , you will be perfectly fine , I was in the same boat as you and I was terrified on my next pregnancy, we went in to have a beautiful boy and 2 years later a beautiful girl , they are all grown up now and my son just got married 3 weeks ago and our daughter is getting married next year pg try relax if you can , I can see you will have a beautiful little girl , best wishes from Ireland xx
Congratulations. I’m so happy for you both and wishing you all the best!
I couldn’t be more thrilled to hear this news. I have loved you since I first discovered you. this baby will be blessed with the most loving parents and the best food ever.
Good thoughts, calm confidence, and unflagging support are with the three of you every minute of every day. Love, Jody
So very happy for you both. My prayers are with you now and in the days and months ahead. I pray peace and calm for you as well as an expectation of the miracle of your daughters wonderful, happy, healthy birth. The Lord loves you and cares so very deeply for you and cares for your hearts in this matter. Love and hugs, Pauline
Congratulations for this wonderful little bloom. Stay positive and enjoy her.