July Baby

It looks like our new little one will be a July baby. We've been having fun looking at all the feast days and birthdays of friends and family to help us with middle names for the baby but they keep passing by and we keep looking forward a few more days..........

My mom has been blogging about us again. I appreciate her grandmotherly perspective on our last prenatal visit. We are planning another home water birth and I'm blessed to have my own sister-in-law from next door as my primary midwife accompanied by the same midwife who attended our other 5 births. Reading my mom's post refreshed my perspective and reminded me of just how fortunate I am.

Aliou just realized that the new baby will be white and not black. Most of the babies he's seen were in Liberia so I think he was expecting a sweet little black new baby like all the ones in his memory.

Since the children have been mostly caught up on chores (chores go so much faster when we're just maintaining all the nesting work!) I've had many little sessions of working alone on things in a quiet house while everyone plays outside. It's much easier to pray through my work at these times and I've been offering most of my prayers for little Baby Joe. Join me in offering a prayer for him and his family.

The things I've been meaning to blog about.........

We've been busy taking advantage of summertime opportunities before the baby comes. We're at a rare stage in life. Our family consists of 7 children under 14yo and NONE IN DIAPERS! This makes us fairly mobile. There is no one screaming on little road trips because they can't understand why they are strapped in a carseat instead of being held in my arms. Everyone can change their own clothes and walk next to me in the store. So we've been on the go and when we come home it is to sleep and catch up on chores. Good thing someone else is blogging about us. Check out Leon and Aliou's 1 year anniversary post by my mom here. And my due-date status here.