Tonight's the night, sounds like a song by Rod Stewart right? Well that would be true but not why I typed those words. We have been home in Pennsylvania for these past two months for several reasons, one especially being the birth of our 14th grandbaby, a girl, due the 2nd of February. Due to the realization that she may come out on that day, see her shadow and crawl back in from whence she came for 6 more weeks her parents decided tonight would be a good day to deliver our new granddaughter. We approve...and are excited to the point of not even caring that there's a snow event happening outside and wind chill tomorrow is forecasted to be 25* below 0... There's a chill in the air is an understatement. Updates to follow.
7:23 Leaving for hospital
8:45 We're here
!0:48 Contractions fast and strong, Doula is pleased
12:59 7cm 90% -1 nearing transition
Were going to have a January 30th Birthday Girlie
1:55 Strong Contractions continue All is well
2:49 9.5 cm
4:06 Addison Grace Sparr arrives <3
7pds 15.5 ozs
21" long
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Sunday, January 20, 2019
A New Year... A New Life
Been in Pennsylvania since mid December; it's now mid January. We've had a baby shower/gender reveal celebrating our newest grandDAUGHTER due February 2nd...Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and Leftover Day spent with various friends, family members and grandchildren of all ages shapes and sizes. New Years Eve bringing in the New Year with way too many people and not nearly enough house. We shared the wedding of our younger son to his sweetheart via facebook facetime with my sister and brother inlaw in a totally different state...the wonder's of technology. With several family member birthday's behind us we wait with bated breath the birth of our newest family member, a granddaughter we have affectionately called "Merriweather" for the past 7 months or so... any day now sweet baby girl... we're ready for you! This is the last and final event before we head back to our winter home in our North Carolina Sandhills. The first major snow event of the new year has turned out to be a dud as the projected 5 to 10 inches of snow ended with only 2 inches of snow and rain. Tonight, however, the wind and cold temps will make it feel like -25* and anything that's wet will fast become ice so under my quilt I go.
The motorhome is safely stored at our home park in NC. The uncertainty of this past October has become a more confident hope for that bright future we have always looked forward to. We had all the work done on the rolling house that had so upended our dreams for a season and today we are only looking at new tires in the next year or so instead of a room in a retirement home. We love our lifestyle of these last ten years, never regretted a day and never once looked back on mortgage payments, taxes, electric bills or all the responsibilities that go with sticks and bricks lamenting taking the plunge into living full time in our rolling home. There's so much to see and enjoy in so little time. Of course one day when we're old and gray we will step into our exit plan with anticipation of finishing the race set before us surrounded by our kids and grands, surfing the web... talking to old friends met along the way... holding on to the memories we've made... reminiscing the places we've been blessed to visit... never, EVER forgetting Who made it all possible.
The motorhome is safely stored at our home park in NC. The uncertainty of this past October has become a more confident hope for that bright future we have always looked forward to. We had all the work done on the rolling house that had so upended our dreams for a season and today we are only looking at new tires in the next year or so instead of a room in a retirement home. We love our lifestyle of these last ten years, never regretted a day and never once looked back on mortgage payments, taxes, electric bills or all the responsibilities that go with sticks and bricks lamenting taking the plunge into living full time in our rolling home. There's so much to see and enjoy in so little time. Of course one day when we're old and gray we will step into our exit plan with anticipation of finishing the race set before us surrounded by our kids and grands, surfing the web... talking to old friends met along the way... holding on to the memories we've made... reminiscing the places we've been blessed to visit... never, EVER forgetting Who made it all possible.
Matthew 19:26
“But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.”
Cast Down but Unconquered
There are days....this is one of them! Days that prayer is all you have and prayer isn't working. I'm sad, I want to cry, our life is taking a turn we didn't expect it to take. Our plans, our future, our lifestyle... I should be able to find joy in our circumstances but today there's no joy to be found. Maybe tomorrow...
Cast Down but Unconquered
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed—
2 Corinthians 4:7-9
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