We've Been Waiting for You with CD (Audio)

In this wonderfully warm gift book, well-known Christian music artist Carolyn Arends celebrates the joys, mysteries, anxieties, and anticipation experienced by all women on the journey from pregnancy to birth. Perfect for both new and expectant moms, this full-color gift book is divided into a two sections: We've Been Waiting for You (the pregnancy) and We're So Glad You Came (the birth).

Through a mix of short stories, newly written song lyrics, poetry, photography, and Scripture, women will savor the sometimes funny, often emotive, yet always real themes within this book such as:

Great Expectations (I think we may be pregnant.)
Riding the Roller Coaster (the first trimester)
Are We There Yet? (the second trimester)
The Home Stretch (the third trimester)
Labor of Love (delivery)
Let's Go Home (baby)

Included in this gift book is a special CD from this talented singer / songwriter featuring two songs (We've Been Waiting for You and Be God's) celebrating the indescribable gift of a newborn baby

Carolyn Arends, popular singer and songwriter, has and unerring way of weaving rich extraordinary tapestries from the threads of everyday affairs. In 1998 Carolyn and her husband Mark became parents for the first time with their son Benjamin. Carolyn says motherhood was a life changing experience and not surprisingly it was a defining theme in her 1999 release This Much I Understand . Carolyn allows her fan to experience life with her, as she says it, "My songs are a mirror of me". Carolyn, Mike, and Benjamin reside in Vancouver, British Columbia.

-Multi-Dove Award winner for "New Artist of the Year", "Country song of the Year", and "International Award"

-She has had 10 songs on the top ten charts of Christian radio. Two of the ten were #1 songs, New Year's Day and I Can Hear You,

-Her song Seize The Day was nominated for Billboard Music Video Award