the flammily

As you know, I got a new camera a few weeks ago!!! So far I LOVE it. I have been meaning to post the first picture I took with it...see below.....















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Yepper, we are having #5! The whole family is so excited...and although I feel pretty icky, I am so happy. This poor kid will be born right around Christmas!!!!!! Oh well....what a beautiful gift we will get!!!

Let me quote a paragraph from a book I just read called ""Stepping Heavenward". It is a fantastic book that I devoured in a day.......

A sister-in-law is speaking to a woman that just found out she is expecting another baby...told from the woman's standpoint:


"She says I shall now have one mouth the more to fill, and two feet the more to shoe; more disturbed nights, more laborious days, and less leisure for visiting, reading, music and drawing.

Well! This is one side of the story, but I look at the other. Here is a sweet, fragrant mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about. Here is a soul to train for God, and the body in which it dwells is worthy all it will cost, since it is in the abode of a Kingly tenant. I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all, to whom, while I minister in Christ’s name, I make willing sacrifice of what little leisure for my own recreation my other darlings have left me. Yes, my precious baby, you are welcome in your mothers heart, welcome to her time, her strength, her health, her tenderest cares, to her life-long prayers! Oh, how rich I am, how truly, how wondrously blest!!!!!"

This is a picture of how I feel in my heart...the joy this baby will be. What an honor and a privilege the Lord has given our family to allow us to be rewarded with this child. :)