MOTHERHOOD

I love Motherhood.  It's just as plain and simple as that. 

In two weeks, we will celebrate a new birth, our tenth birth actually, but first we are going to celebrate two others.  Our only daughter for 12 years is about to turn 13, yes 13, I can't believe it, I just can't.  She was born on September 11, 2001, the actual day, September 11, when the planes flew into the buildings.  She was our shining light on that dark day and has continued to be since.  She's a little bit spunky or strong-willed, whatever you would like to call it.  We always say it's because she is supposed to be a missionary in some poverty stricken land with the job of taking care of 420 orphans.  She loves babies.  Have you ever heard of Gladys Aylward?  Yeah, well that's our daughter.  She never says never.  She's a go to girl who will get the job done when asked and she is a blessing to our family.  It was hard to find a picture of her because she's always taking the pictures.

Thank goodness God gave her a baby sister 18 months ago.  Surely you've heard the saying, "A daughter is a daughter for life and a son is a son until he takes a wife."   We told her before we found out she was having a sister, "Honey, we have 7 boys who will take care of their wives once they get married.  You better pray for a sister, otherwise, it's all on you!  You get to take care of us when we're old."   

We will celebrate another birthday on September 21st.  I call him our little ball of energy and if you see the "Wishes and Mushies" post over to the right on the side bar, that post is all about him.  He has so much energy!  He reminds me of the Energizer bunny, he never runs out of energy.  He will definitely be a command man when he grows up because he likes to be the boss.  He tells me every Sunday morning when I get in the car for church, "Mom, you look so pretty and you smell so goooood, just like a flower!" 

Then of course, our new little bundle of joy will be here on the 24th.  We can't wait. 

Before I go, here's a short video our daughter made this afternoon that I wanted to share with you.  I've already shared some of it on Google plus. She has this amazing gift with movie making and picture programs.  She makes these videos in like - minutes, it's amazing.  She begged me to let her fix it and add more to it before I posted it but I thought it was great and I didn't want to wait.

The house is ALMOST FINISHED!!!!!   I'll post some more pictures later.........gater