Our First Anniversary!

"Give to those that marry, to marry in the Lord;

and let the Lord Jesus by his grace come to the marriage and turn the water into wine.

Make them helps meet for each other

and instrumental to promote one another’s salvation;

and give them to live in holy love, that they may dwell in God, and God in them. 

Let the wife be as a fruitful vine by the side of the house,

and the husband dwell with the wife as a man of knowledge,

and let them dwell together as joint heirs of the grace of life, that their prayers be not hindered, 

and make us all meet for that world where they neither marry nor are given in marriage."

Matthew Henry

Prayer meeting

At prayer meeting. It's amazing how attentive she is....as long as she's not hungry or exhausted.

Two months old!

The Puritans on Breastfeeding

I'm so thankful that I'm able to nurse my baby and wanted to share an interesting article I read on breastfeeding over at Visionary Womanhood this morning. Before today I had had no idea the Puritans had written on this subject!

Gouge on Breastfeeding

Of giving suck to children
Among other needful things, the milk of the breast is fit for young babes, and with it they are to be nourished. I think none doubt of the equity of this. It hath in all ages, and in all countries, been accounted the best food that can be for young babes.
The metaphor which Peter uses… [As new-born babes desire the sincere milk of the word (1 Peter 2:2)] confirms as much.
So doth also the desire which such infants have to the milk of the breasts: and the ability, and promptness which is in them to suck: and God’s providence in causing a woman’s breasts to yield forth such milk: and the constant manner of nourishing little infants after this manner, commended in the Scripture: and [to conclude]the natural instinct which many unreasonable creatures have thus to nourish their young ones. Go here to read more......

The "fishies"

Caroline entertaining herself this morning while I cleaned up the kitchen. She loves her bouncer!

Happy Girl