One month

Can you believe it has been a month, ONE WHOLE MONTH!, since Damaris was born? The word on the street is the older you get, the faster time goes. I have found this to be true. But come on! This is crazy! The last 3 weeks of my pregnancy with her took longer than this!

She truly has been a joy to have. Not that my other child weren’t/aren’t, but you know what I mean. She is still a wonderful sleeper, sleeping on average 7 hours strait at night. It has been great fun to get the “girly” stuff out again and yes, acquire some new things just for her. But most of all, it feels so good to have a baby in my arms again. I suppose that sounds funny, since Nathaniel is not quite 2 years old yet. But it’s about this time, that I’ve always had another baby and so I’m ready for the next one. Actually, it’s usually around the time a child is 3 or 4 months old that I’m wanting another one, but God in His perfect knowledge and timing, has given us the next on between 18 and 23 months later. And that really is the perfect timing, at least for our family it has been.

I realize that it’s not the norm to have 6 children by the time you are 30 (yesterday was my birthday, by the way. I usually do a write up about the the birthday person, but I figured it would be a little vain to do so about myself. And since Adam refuses to write anything her, this little blurb is all I’ll do. So I’m now 30. Am I an adult yet?). And it’s even less normal to want more. But I’m okay with that. I’ve never been one to worry much about being “normal” and caring what others think. I care what my husband thinks and I care what God thinks of me.

Adam and I are living the way we believe God has asked us to. That includes the way we dress, why we homeschool, why we don’t have a TV, why we don’t use any form of birth control (no, not even so-called “family planning”)…. and many other things and areas. We weren’t raised in these areas with these convictions, and so most of our family don’t understand it/us (and some down right rebuke us). But we know they still love us and we still love them. For we are not here to live to gain mans approval, no matter who that man is. But we are here to gain God’s approval and we believe we are doing just that.

But back to Damaris being one month old. Not to toot my own horn or anything, but don’t we make cute children? *smile* Unfortunately, for her, she is losing the hair on top of her head. But I told her not to worry. The bow covers it up.