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Sunday, February 24, 2008

New Blog

After going from a party of 4 to a party of 7 in the last few years I think it time time to move to a new blog with a new name not limited to numbers!
So I thought I would give Blogger a try.
Here is the new link
http://mcafeefam.blogspot.com/

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Currently Watching
Maybe Baby
By Rowan Atkinson, Dawn French, Hugh Laurie, Joanna Lumley, Joely Richardson
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It was positive!

Here is a little mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul to train for God, and the body in which it dwells is worth all it will cost, since it is abode of a kingly tenant. I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all. Yes, my precious baby, you are welcome to your mother’s heart, welcome to her time, her strength, her health, to her most tender cares, to her life~long prayers! Oh how rich I am, how truly, how marvelously blest!” Elizabeth Prentiss
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Thursday, February 21, 2008

Currently Watching
Lost - The Complete Third Season
By Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Josh Holloway, Dominic Monaghan, Terry O'Quinn
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A Quiverful life

Over the years we have struggled with this conviction of being a full quiver believing family. I know my big sin has been not realizing the blessings of Gods children for our family. Not that I didn't love the children we had but that I had been controlling our future children. I did notice that I lost my love for other children over the years and wondered why. I used to be happy and loved being around kids and babies but like so many women in this world I got sucked up into the feminist selfish view of children. Being the oldest of now 12 kids (4 have been adopted and 1 more in the process since I left home) I had to deal with random people and family members coming up to me and saying you aren't going to be like your mom are you and have a ton of kids? I wanted to say yes because deep down inside I know it's not that bad but over the years having lots of kids started having a negative light about it.
When my husband and I got married April 4th 1998 I was so full of young hope and love. I just knew we were going to have the perfect family and I was going to be the best mom. We got pregnant just a few months later and everything changed! I had severe morning, noon and night sickness and our life began crumbling around us in every area. Our daughter Kallista born 3-10-99 was injured at birth and has Brachial Plexus palsy that affects her right arm.

During the time between Kallista and Korban I began to change my opinion on the full quiver belief and I waited until what I thought was a good space of 2.5 years until we had Korban 7-20-01

I fought God for four years and finally read Mary Prides book on the subject. I could not argue with a single point she made and knew we needed to have another baby. Thus God blessed us with our precious Kadence Anne on Sept 4 2005.

I knew I was going to struggle with this again after she was born more so than with the first 3 because with them I had good spacing between them . And I was right I fought it as hard as ever but God would not let me rest about it. So again I read "A full Quiver" and my eyes were really opened. I confessed my years of sin and repented wholeheartedly. I was worried that God would try and make up for lost time and send a baby our way ASAP but once again God showed himself to my doubting heart and proved that He is the one in control and gave me a little space.
Khloe Elisabeth was born March 22 2007

And now Khloe is 11 months old and even though I cringed and prayed many many times that I could have maybe 2 years between babies I am a pretty sure we are expecting again. I will know more tomorrow.
Being a quiverful family is a daily struggle and is not an easy path but it is a worthy conviction and I pray that God will bless us all!