Baby shower pictures....

A few pictures from the baby shower that my SC friends and family threw for me. It was a special fun time!

A bump photo shoot

Yesterday my friend Caroline, of CornBread photos, took some pregnancy pictures at 31 weeks. Here are a few favorites -

A letter to mothers

O dear mothers,

Please understand that you have a very sacred trust reposed in you by God! He has in effect said unto you, “Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages”. You are called to equip the future man of God, that he may be “thoroughly furnished unto all good works”. If God spares you, you may live to hear that pretty boy speak to thousands, and you will have the sweet reflection in your heart that the quiet teachings of the nursery led the adult man to love his God and serve Him.

Those who think that a woman detained at home by her little family is doing nothing think reverse of what is true. Scarcely can the godly mother quit her home for a place of worship. However, dream not that she is lost to the work of the church. Far from it, she is doing the best possible service for her Lord.

Mothers, the godly training of your offspring is your first and most pressing duty. Christian women, by teaching children the holy scriptures, are as much fulfilling their part for the Lord as Moses did in judging Israel, or Solomon in building the temple.

Charles Spurgeon 

 Spiritual Parenting, by C. H. Spurgeon.

30 weeks

30 weeks and all was well at today's prenatal! I feel like we've entered the home stretch.
The baby is head down, and it's new favorite activity is pushing off on mom's ribs. One of my favorite's when relaxing is watching and feeling all the movements :-) He/she is a busy little one!

f Babyton  is a girl this will be her blanket....

Delight

"Husband and wife must delight in the love and company, and lives of each other. When husband and wife take pleasure in each other, it unites them in duty, it helps them with ease to do their work, and bear their burdens; and is a major part of the comfort of marriage. [Prov 5.18,19] " 

~ Richard Baxter

Baby things

Some things I've been knitting and crocheting for the baby, and I still have a few more projects to keep me busy for the next 11 weeks or so!

God's precious gifts

I liked this section of a book I read awhile back. In context a woman is concerned and asking what she and her husband would have to offer a child if they were to have one -


We are at a farm-house. Everything is plain, but neat and nice. I asked Mrs. Brown, our hostess; the other day, if she did not envy me my four little ones; she smiled, said they were the best children she ever saw, and that it was well to have a family if you have means to start them in the world; for her part, she lived from, hand to mouth as it was, and was sure she could never stand the worry and care of a house full of young ones.

"But the worry and care is only half the story," I said. "The other half is pure joy and delight."

"Perhaps so, to people that are well-to-do," she replied; "but to poor folks, driven to death as we are, it's another thing. I was telling him yesterday what a mercy it was there wasn't any young ones round under my feet, and I could take city boarders, and help work off the mortgage on the farm."

"And what did your husband say to that?"

"Well, he said we were young and hearty, and there was no such tearing hurry about the mortgage and that he'd give his right hand to have a couple of boys like yours."

'Well,' says I, supposing you had a pack of, 'em, what have you got to give 'em?' '

 'Jest exactly what my father and mother gave me,' says he; 'two hands to earn their bread with, and a welcome you could have heard from Dan to Beersheba.

"I like to hear that!" I said. "And I hope many such welcomes will resound in this house. Suppose money does come in while little goes-out; suppose you get possession of the whole farm; what then? Who will enjoy it with you? Who will you leave it to when you die? And in your old age who will care for you?"

"You seem awful earnest," she said.

"Yes, I am in earnest. I want to see little children adorning every home, as flowers adorn every meadow and every wayside. I want to see them welcomed to the homes they enter, to see their parents grow less and less selfish, and more and more loving, because they have come. I want to see God's precious gifts accepted, not frowned upon and refused."

Stepping Heavenward

An update in pictures

I haven't shared a bump picture on here in awhile.....so here is one I took today at 28 weeks, then I put it alongside another of me in the same outfit taken at 20 weeks. Just look at how the bump is growing! I feel very big and pregnant. The baby is doing well, kicks all the time and we can sometimes see kicks from the outside now :-)

We've been getting lots of snow - so far up to 22 inches this winter. I'm trying to get used to highs that never seem to climb out of the 20s....and sometimes don't even go so high as 20.

Snow.

My husband snowblowing.

I'm also trying to get used to driving on white roads.......I drive slowwwwwly.....:-)