Sadness

It's with great sadness that I tell you that we've lost our baby. We went in for our first prenatal visit, and the doctor wanted to do a routine ultrasound to make sure everything was okay.

To our dismay, there was no heartbeat. I was 9 weeks pregnant but the baby only measured 6w5d. Our hearts were once again crushed by the loss of a child. There our precious little baby was, we could see it in the sac surrounded by amniotic fluid, but the heart was still.

Each time we face something so challenging, it causes us to cling to God even more. In our times of confusion and pain, if we reach out to Him, our faith grows!

I have no idea why our baby died, but I trust God in ALL things. And I'm trying to be thankful for ALL THINGS. A friend introduced a book to me that's impacting my life greatly "A Thousand Gifts". This is an amazing book that talks about how to bring joy into our everyday mundane, lives. Some people don't live mundane lives, but most of us housewives/stay at home moms are living very mundane lives. If you're not naturally geared to be happy and upbeat you can get very bored and discouraged easily.......that would be me. But this book brings things into great perspective and is helping me to see God and good in ALL things.

A scripture that God gave me the day we found out our baby died was in Psalms 118:13
"I was pushed hard so that I almost fell, but the Lord God was there for me" That's a powerful scripture and it describes exactly how I felt and do feel. Actually all of Psalms 118 and Psalms 20 were both tremendous encouragements to me.

I thank God for His word! It brings life.

What are some of your struggles and how did God meet you?

I would love to hear from you.

Fresh Off the Pres

Well, this is especially for my blog readers. I haven't made it Facebook official yet. We'll wait a few more weeks for that.

I'M PREGNANT!!!!! 

On Cayden's 1st birthday we found out that I was pregnant. That will make this baby and Cayden the exact same space apart as Colton and Chase. The neat thing is, we didn't even plane it like that! 

God is so good!

We're so excited!!!! Baby Garsee is due in November!!

Love

Amber

Musings about the pee problem I'm having in my house

If any of you are fortunate enough to have little boys, or a husband I'm sure you've experienced the problem that occurs in the bathroom on a very regular basis. You're bathroom being overtaken by the stench of pee, the drops of pee on the seat, and the slim of pee on the floor.

I am the blessed mother of 5 boys and the wife of one lovely husband, causing the pee problem in my house to have escalated to unmanageable degrees.

I thought I had railroaded the problem when one day I emphatically proclaimed that, "ALL BOYS MUST sit while peeing". After waking every morning and then getting up from the toilet with my bottom wet from sitting in someones pee, I finally exploded and made the proclamation.

The first morning pee of the male species comes with such a surge that it sprays EVERYWHERE! It's like a cloudy mist that fills the bathroom. And if there's no mist, there's always drops left behind.

Yesterday morning, with eyes barely open, I went into the bathroom and sat down and before too long I realized that my feet felt slick and slippery. I looked down and there was a small puddle where someone's pee had trickled down to the floor, and now my foot was resting in this smelly pool.

I yelled down the stairs, "WHO JUST PEED IN THE UPSTAIRS BATHROOM???" Certain the answer would be Bank, my husband answered, "It was me" My husband, who always sits, had decided to stand that morning and those last little trickles wound up on the floor..........ugh! The battle lost again.

I find pee on the back of the seat, on the seat, on the floor, and sometimes when Joseph is feeling artistic, I've found it on the wall.

I feel I've lost the pee war........I now have baby Cayden another little boy and with the failure to train the ones I have now, it's certain he'll follow the other boys and their wild untamed pee ways.

If any of you mothers out there have any suggestions, there's always welcome! ; ) I don't the think older ones are able to be trained but maybe just maybe I'll have luck with the younger ones. sigh.........

Love,
Amber~