The Lost World

This week we were blessed to enjoy God's creation away from the city! I think it has been years since I bothered to look up at night and the stars were astounding.

We feel very refreshed. And are quite convinced that we shall own a little farm one day...

As if heaven isn't enough

As I was bathing Emma a few nights ago, my mind turned to the repetition of our evenings.

We have dinner, bathe, get ready for bed. It's nice that we have a routine that she's familiar with, but sometimes I find bath time a 'hassle'. I realised that it's only by the Lord's grace and strength that I am able to continue serving Emma as I am called.

I reflected on Romans 11:36 "for from Him and

through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be glory forever, amen".

It is only because of and FOR His glory that we have Emma in our lives and the immense joy that she brings us. God's ways are above our ways and although I do not understand why I am so blessed in this life, I am so. very. thankful for it.

The next blessing

Here is our next bundle of joy! Due December 3rd (but I'm hoping for a November baby!) I had the 19 week scan on Friday and everything is looking great with both myself and baby. We never had a 4D scan with Emma, so seeing this scan was such a treat! Initially baby kept putting its hands in front of its face - we realised it was trying to get thumb to mouth. It was very cute.

We do know the gender, but we are keeping it to ourselves :) This isn't to infuriate anyone I promise! I loved having Emma as a surprise, but with this baby I'm glad to know now as strangely it's actually helping me to be more excited. I suppose we did all the 'firsts' with Emma and now it's 'let's get it over and done with'. This pregnancy hasn't been as easy as Emma's so I'm glad to have seen these 4D pictures and know the gender. It's been a nice treat.

I am so thankful to the Lord for His abundant blessings. Lyle and I have a number of friends who either have no children as yet, or are trying for more with no results and I am humbled to think that so far we have such an easy road regarding pregnancy. It's so hard to understand God's ways when things are tough, but I have to confess I struggle to understand His ways in this area of our lives when things are so easy. It seems that my life just keeps getting better and better with no end in sight. Sometimes it makes me sit on the edge of my seat waiting for tragedy to hit. Of course if it does I know that it will be at the hand of the Lord and a blessing - as the only course of action will be to come before the Lord and grow closer to Him. For now, I thank God for our next little child and look forward to meeting it at the end of the year!

Emma's Crush

At 16 months Emma has a crush on a boy (a married man at that!!) This is Danny. He and his wife Jo work with us in the youth group at our church and they're an awesome couple, we have great fellowship with them. Emma LOVES Danny. He came over to our house the other day to meet up with Lyle and my parents were here. Emma also loves my parents. So it provided quite the laugh when she was willing to leave granny and grandpa's attention, go into her room, and come out with a book to hand to Danny. She does this so often to him that he even recognised that it was a new book... She has good taste. Danny's a great bloke. Although married and almost 30 years her senior. Hopefully in the future she'll learn discernment!