Grateful

So I've been meaning to post this story for a while but haven't had the time to get to it. In the attitude of Thanksgiving I am so grateful that we are having a healthy baby at the end of March. I was at Relief Society one day and we had a lesson about being willing. The lady who was giving the lesson told us a story about her mother-in-law and her youngest brother-in-law who is ten. Her in-laws had planned always on having five kids but when they started trying for their fifth child they couldn't get pregnant. After many years of trying but no success they felt that they were only meant to have their four boys and were grateful none the less. Years later they were surprised when she got pregnant again. After her fifth son was born she was talking to someone else in her ward about why the Lord felt like she should be blessed with another baby after so many years and being so much older.
The lady told her about her own experience about not being able to have children. She and her husband had decided to wait on having children so that they could both pursue education and careers. When they finally went to have children they found out that they couldn't. She had a blessing and what the Lord told her was that because she was unwilling to have the children he was willing to give to her she would not be given the chance to have a child. She told the mother-in-law that maybe because she and her husband were willing to have another child that she was given the chance to be a mother again to a child whose parents weren't willing to have one at the expense of their own lives and careers.
I'm not trying to say that people are bad for wanting to wait to have a child because they want to pursue higher education and a career. I believe that the decision to have children should be between you and the Lord, but I think that we should be willing should the chance arrive. I think that our generation thinks that our kids need to be brought up with everything, but they don't need to have everything. We weren't brought up with everything and look how we turned out.
I am so grateful that I have a husband who is willing to let me stay home to be a housewife and mother while still pursuing education. I am grateful to have my own house and to be able to graduate this spring with my undergraduate degree.