Saturday, September 25, 2010

The night owl vs. the morning lark


My little night owl. She is awed by the flash. This is 1 am entertainment for one tired momma.


We have a 'war' going on every evening around our house. No matter what, we try to wake Ivy around 5pm so she'll be ready to go to sleep at a decent hour in her crib. All my other babies have had a fussy time around 5 in the afternoon, but Ivy's seems to be around 10 -1 am. It's always been my goal to make it to bed around 9, but that usually doesn't work. I *used* to be in the bed by 10 or at the latest, 10:30. Sometimes when I was pregnant I fell out around 8:30pm.

You may ask who is winning the bedtime wars. Honestly, Ivy is. I think she sort of quit fighting around 1:30am this morning, but was back at it 20 minutes later when she started fussing about being on her back in the crib. I had mercy on Ron who had to be up at 4:30 am to go to the farmer's market in Hernando, so she won & I scooped her up into the bed with us.
The flash from photo booth on the computer keeps her entertained.
She has destroyed my routine of getting up early in the mornings for time in prayer & in the word. Normally this would wreak havoc on my peace, but I do have some word stored up in my heart & can commune with God in prayer during the day in between my trying to catch up with so many of the things I'm trying to do to keep my head above water. The children are on the computer all day & into the night doing home school, so they're not much help around the house. Just a season that will pass. It is good to have faith & trust in His righteousness & not my works. "Jesus, I am resting, resting" is a song on my heart for my emotional state, definitely not the physical state! ;-)

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Ivy Pictures from Hannah

Tragedy of all tragedies, the camera broke a week or two before Ivy was born. Ms. Penny brought her camera to the birth for those pictures, but the only pictures we can get of her (thankfully we can get some!) are in front of the computer. So Hannah did that one morning with Ivy. Scroll down a couple post for the pictures. My sweet butterball!!


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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Ivy's birth

OK, this has nothing to do with Ivy's birth,



What a belly looks like that has an ELEVEN POUND, EIGHT OZ. baby!



August 23rd I woke up about 2 am with my water breaking. Just a few minutes later, my contractions went about 5 minutes apart, signalling this would be my quickest birth. It wasn't long until they turned into 3 minutes apart, which is active labor. My good friend Christy came about 5am & we waited on Ron to get up. He wanted all the rest he could get for what he thought would be a day or two of the hard work of being labor support.

The children got up early & did a few chores in anticipation of a day playing with friends.
This is Hallel with Autumn Mink.
Brinley is along for the ride with Macrae on the swing.
Abby Moeller is barely making the picture.
Neo & Qiao


My handsome husband, ObRon. ;-)
What a labor of love to be pampered with massage in labor!
Christy keeping up with the times of my contractions & Melissa was 'busy as a bee' helping.
Stopping for a contraction on the way to the bathroom.

Always imperative to have prayer warriors present! I don't see
how New Agers do home birth without beseeching our Heavenly
Father to be there/work on their behalf. I try to have an atmosphere
to have Him honored. A dear friend from church recorded her singing
some of our hymns I picked from our hymnal to worship our Father & remind me of His loving care to me during my labor. Mrs. Penny brought some of her favorite music, & I had some instrumental worship.
I know we were all praying at some point!

The hot water felt SO WONDERFUL during contractions. It was the best relief I had
during transition. I thought I would water birth, but the great thing about home birth is
that you can constantly move & I eventually moved out of the tub, but not
far. I had her where Ronnie is sitting there.
This was the only picture that turned out this way. I couldn't swear it was an angel, but it definitely reminds me of that. They were all around us that day, "ministering to those who inherit His salvation."Hebrews 1:14
We were very grateful too, because of the
next photo, which those of you with a queasy stomach may want to skip.












Love to see the eyes of my son! Proud big brother. They were all listening through the wall, waiting for Ivy to get here. Ruth was 'buzzing' & missed Ivy being born, but Hannah was present.
This is the crew that starts first thing in the morning,
"I want to hold her," "I've only held her twice,"
"It's my turn!" She is LOVED by all &
gets a million kisses a day.

"The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble,
and He knows those who take refuge in Him."
Nahum 1: 7


Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings
Psalm 17:8