{"id":15536,"date":"2011-03-17T08:40:01","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T12:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/?p=15536"},"modified":"2011-03-17T08:40:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T12:40:01","slug":"two-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/2011\/two-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"TWO YEARS AGO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago today I woke up to incredible pains at 4 am &#8211; knowing that today would be the day that Enoch left us. It was painful and emotional and one of the most difficult times of our lives.<\/p>\n<p>We knew for a week that we would be miscarrying &#8211; but having it happen made it so real and so permanent.<\/p>\n<p>I write today to remind myself of where we are. To encourage you with our miracle to keep hoping for yours. Remember &#8211; I am that person that found it hard to hope &#8211; I still do at times! It was hard to hope without getting my hopes up &#8211; cus they would be gone every month.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the blogs that I wrote 2 years ago to help get out my feelings about what we were going through.<\/p>\n<p>3.11.09 &#8211; <a title=\"COMFORT\" href=\"\/blog\/2009\/comfort\/\">COMFORT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3.12.09 &#8211; <a title=\"BEAUTY FROM PAIN\" href=\"\/blog\/2009\/beauty-from-pain\/\">BEAUTY FROM PAIN <\/a><\/p>\n<p>3.13.09 &#8211; <a title=\"PROMISES \" href=\"\/blog\/2009\/promises\/\">PROMISES <\/a><\/p>\n<p>3.22.09 &#8211; <a title=\"SPRING\" href=\"\/blog\/2009\/spring-3\/\">SPRING <\/a><\/p>\n<p>4.21.09 &#8211; <a title=\"FINDING PEACE \" href=\"\/blog\/2009\/finding-peace\/\">FINDING PEACE <\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have a little more than 7 weeks until our expected due date with Fitzy &#8211; our miracle! I sit here and shake my head as I type &#8211; still in shock that there is a baby kicking me. That after two years of heartache we will be blessed with another child &#8211; this one in our arms!<\/p>\n<p>I write to encourage you. I write to give you hope. I write to let you know I am praying for YOU! I am praying that God will give you peace &#8211; strength &#8211; comfort &#8211; and the ability to give up control &#8211; to let it in God&#8217;s hands.<\/p>\n<p>We miss Enoch so much &#8211; but we rejoice in the knowledge that he is rejoicing with Jesus! He is safe and happy and beautiful! We will see him again someday!<\/p>\n<p>We are so thankful for the chance to reach out to all of you that are struggling! We are so blessed to know all of you and pray for you!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much for your support, love, and prayers you have showered us with on our journey to becoming parents!<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to end this post with a promise of new life &#8211; a promise that God cares!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/3000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15564\" title=\"3000\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/3000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/3999.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15565\" title=\"3999\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/3999.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If God takes care of the flowers in the ground &#8211; He will take care of YOU!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago today I woke up to incredible pains at 4 am &#8211; knowing that today would be the day that Enoch left us. It was painful and emotional and one of the most difficult times of our lives. We knew for a week that we would be miscarrying &#8211; but having it happen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,11,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}