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52 Weeks of Blessings -- week 15-- Babies

Blessing 15 - babies! This baby particularly. {for clarification, read this link and come back.}
I know that I already chose the blessing of children, but I had to tell this baby story...
This past week I spent with my sister and her family. Their's is a story of waiting and hoping. After 3 long years of having their profile out for birth mothers to read... two years ago, they were chosen to be the parents of this little boy.
It has not been the easiest or the quickest adoption. They decided that if there were another child for them they would be brought together without an agency. Before Grandma and Grandpa brought this sweet little one home, they had discussed with her parents adoption. Everyone agreed that it would be best to let her be adopted out. Grandma and Grandpa took custody until the right family could be found. We had a few couples in mind. The first couple realized quickly that she was not for them... Last Sunday my sister got a call, they quickly packed up and headed over. They came to see a small package....and the second couple... well, they fell in love! Things have been set in motion.
She smiled when her new momma picked her up for the first time!
Many tears were shed, tears of joy and happiness.

Time for Scottisims-- and maybe an Em-isim or two

3-12-08
"You can't talk to me, because you're not the boss!"
3-13-08
"I just want to hug you. {insert tight hugging} Now it's your turn. {insert me hugging him, not quite so tightly} That's nice! I just to kiss you.{insert him kissing me} Now it's your turn. {insert me kissing him} That's nice!"
3-14-08
(EmmaLece) We'd been heading home & she had a big {Costco sized) plastic jar of cashews on her lap. Scott was holding one of chocolate covered peanuts. Em said, "This is my best friend. My best friend's name is Nut!" They both laughed uncontrollably! It was hilarious! :)
3-19-08
While playing a game of "what's this?" ... In which you lay on the bench & reach up on the table 7 touch something, then ask, "what's this"? .... Another person tells you what it is you've touched. They were just laughing and having a ball playing this game, when Scott said to EmmaLece, "You must be weird!" Followed by more contagious laughter. One couldn't help but laugh along.
3-24-08
(EmmaLece) "I don't want to kiss boys!" {insert a yucky facial expression and a tongue sticking out :P }
3-25-08
After being told to wash his hands cause he'd been to the potty, he said, "I didn't touch my bootie or my parts, so...." {rest assured he DID wash his hands}
Later... "I'm really learning to sing!"
3-27-08
Scott talking to Dad: "I like your chin, and your neck. And I like your nose!"
4-6-08
Scott: I'm sitting between my mom and my dad. Yep,I know, that's funny. I'm funny!"
Mom: "Cover your mouth when you cough, please."
Scott: "My lips are covering it!" then he covers his mouth with his hand and says, "See, my coughs go through these lines!" You know his fingers, they make lines!
4-7-08
Took Shantel to the Dr for stuffed sinuses and Scott whispers, "I want to get out of this place!" then the Dr leaves {who just happens to be quite attractive} says, "Why is she the Dr?"
4-10-08
The kids were all out playing in the front yard. Scott comes in and sits down to tell all about the outside playing, there's no way I could possibly relate it all but the funny part was this: "We were poking sticks in the 'mud water' yeah it was fun, but I don't like 'mud water'.
Also, when we cross over the Yellowstone River, he calls it 'yucky water'.


Will be back with an update on this week later, As I have been enjoying the week with my sister and her family.

52 Weeks of Blessings -- week 14-- Motherhood

For this week's blessing I chose Motherhood. A great talk was given today at conference by M. Russell Ballard to mothers!
I want to share some quotes on mothers and motherhood that I've found.

"Mothers write on the hearts of their children, that which the rough hands of the world cannot rub off."
"You just never stop walking behind them, do you?"
"When they are little, they step on your toes.... when they are big, they step on your heart."

A Maternal Mystery

A mother's love is always able to enfold another child
without at all depleting her love for the others
Your heart readily embraces a new little life
even as you continue providing all that the family needs
And as you do so, your love empowers the older to love the younger
blessing the older with a sense of her important position
blessing the younger with a sibling's love
And being blessed by the circle of love
by the widening circle of deepening love

(found in this book: A Mother's Love paintings by Sandra Kuck text by Lisa Guest)

"Mother means selfless devotion, limitless sacrifices, and love that passes understanding."
"The goodness of a home is not dependent on wealth, or spaciousness, or beauty, or luxury. Everything depends on the Mother." G.W.E. Russell

An Unquenchable Love

A mother's love...
Is drained by the midnight feedings of an infant
The emphatic no's and constant testing of a toddler
The new horizons of elementary school
The peer pressure and thumping decibles of junior high
The challenges and letting go of adolescence
The relentlessness of parenting

A mother's love...
Is recharged with the heartfelt smile from her child
With an unexpected hug from her son
With a glance at her sleeping babe, however old he is.

(also taken from A Mother's Love for a look at the painting click here. The cover of this book is one of my favorite paintings also in A Mother's Love.)

"If we help our children to be what they should be today, then, when tomorrow becomes today, they will have the courage to face it with greater love." Mother Teresa
"In the heavens above,
the angels, whispering to one another,
can find, among their burning terms of love,
none so devotional as that of a mother." Edgar Allen Poe
"There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother..." Washington Irving
"To be a mother is the grandest vocation in the world. No one being has a position of such power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations: for to her is necessarily committed the making of the nation's citizens." Hannah Whitall Smith

Wordless Wednesday

Laundry!

Welcome home Emily Rose

She was released from the hospital on Sunday. She weighed in at 4 lbs 10 ozs! She has come to stay with Grandma & Grandpa for an undetermined time frame. Since we have an EmmaLece who has a variety of the usual knick-names that would be the same for Emily Rose, we have taken to calling her little MissE. MissE is a doll.... a very tiny doll, perhaps lighter than a doll-baby! :) We are all in love with her! She went to story-time today at the library and she was a hit! Everyone wanted to see her and hold her. There were many an exclamation of how small she is. The twins can't get enough of her.
edited 4-1-08 she weighs 4lbs 13 oz and is 17 inches long!

What 's in your "purse"

Wendi at Because Wendi Said So challenged me to the "What's in Your Purse" meme..... well Sorry to disappoint you, but this is my "purse".As you can tell, you can't store much in here, just driver's license and essential cards -- debit, credit card, temple recommend, insurance card, a pen, and a bit of money {yeah right, like I ever have money!}
I hear you saying, "What the heck, she doesn't carry a purse?" I did a "What's in Your Church Bag" instead......Top picture: my church bag, 2nd picture: What was found inside the main pocket, 3rd picture: what was found inside the outer pocket. The fourth picture edited: just for Supercool and others who wanted to see my trash....