It’s been forever since I blogged! I have had so much I wanted to write about, but fear that my incredibly blunt presentation would ruin it:)

The weather is finally gorgeous and I have officially shut the heat off! Hurray! We have been trying to get the house ready to keep our wonderful friends from KY and MI this weekend. I am really looking forward to fellowshipping with the Hunts and Halls, as they are such delightful people with whom I have much in common. It is always nice to be able to be around others that share similar views on health, and children, and of course God:)

The children are doing a lightened load of academia for this week of just one lesson in their Saxon Math. We do schooling year-round, as the whole purpose of the summer break was devised during the time when so many children had to leave school to stay at home to help with the crops and harvest.  We will be taking time off here and there for times we are out of town or for “field trips”, but I do not ever want my children’s minds to be idle. There’s always reading time each day - from the classics and pre-1960’s literature (before children’s reading materials were “dumbed” down). Being an English major, I am prone to not want my children to feed their minds “fast-food fiction”; but rather, want them to enrich and challenge their minds to rise above the mediocrity of today’s youthful literature.

Anyways, I have quite a tendency for going off on tangents, huh? I have about 9 weeks to go before the birth of our sixth blessing! Hurray! The last trimester is always the hardest, isn’t it? I feel absolutely gigantic! I got that waddle thing going on in the evenings when my lower back starts telling me how annoyed it is that I have used it all day long. Oh well, I still think it is all worth it. 9 months of some personal suffering for a lifetime of joy is hardly worth comparing. And the healthier one is before they get pregnant and during pregnancy, the less problems there are anyways. I am very thankful that I have not had any complications or problems (besides the varicose veins - ew!) with any of my pregnancies. God has been good, allowing me to find and learn, study and research in the area of health and wellness. It also helps when you’re mom is a CNHP:) We are getting a birthing “hot” tub for this birth. I am super geeked about this. I have read so many helpful and good things about water birth and am looking forward to adding this to my experiences.  I thought home birth was the best ever, but home birth with a hot tub might just be the absolute tops:) Of course, I will have to chronicle the experience. Maybe I will even have newborn pictures! hehe… We always have the camera out and ready when we do and go places, but forget to use it. So, we’ll see.

Alright, enough of the ramblings! I am praying that God will meet with us this weekend and bless the efforts of all involved; that those traveling will be covered and the fellowship will be uplifting and insightful. The meeting review will be up shortly after this weekend, I hope:) God be with us all.

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