Baby Quilt!
Here are the blocks as far as I had finished last night.
I’ve put borders on and now I’m quilting them – more pictures later!
12-Jan-2008
11-Jan-2008
Unveiling……..
The new toy!
Brian has spent a good deal of time looking up monitors, comparing prices and shopping for store returns. He wanted to get me a flat screen monitor so I can utilize my desk space better. Just yesterday we found a good deal and with the help of some gift cards and money given to us for Christmas, we came home with the above monitor.
Brian set it all up but because it’s a wide screen and my laptop doesn’t have settings for that, everything looked stretched and distorted. Brian spent all evening messing with settings and downloading drivers but nothing was working. We half heartedly discussed a few options and went to bed discouraged.
Weeping and sorrow may endure for the night….
Brian got up to study this morning, but the unfinished problem wouldn’t leave him alone. A little more looking around and he found what made it work! He got everything fixed and got me up to come and look at it!
….But joy comes in the morning.
I’ve been enjoying it all day as I go about my normal computer tasks. Everything looks so nice and neat now – cables and cords stowed away, a USB hub peeking out from under the screen, keyboard tray that slides out of view and the monitor tucked away in the corner. Plenty of room for scrapbooking, or sewing without having to move my whole computer work station!
Brian is one great guy!
9-Jan-2008
Last night I had a midwife appointment – all is going well. Kelsey (my midwife) helped me identify the different parts of the baby that I can feel. She showed me where the head was and explained how she knew what it was! Tadpole kept moving a lot and made it hard to take a heartbeat by running away from the doppler. 
We also had our first birthing class. It was so cute to see all the couples there – every mom with a big belly, sitting next to her attentive husband – the perfect date 
. Everyone was expecting their first except for one mom and the crowd was mostly young couples, but there were some older ones too. We went over nutrition, exercise and terminology this week. I think next week we hit the subject of labor and birth 
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I’m also doing a little bible study on my own on the word “travail” and how it’s used in the Bible. Not horribly encouraging 
Do you know how often God uses travail to describe judgment? A few interesting facts so far:
1. It’s an appointed time – normal, expected and not lasting forever.
2. It’s offset to the point of almost forgetting by the joy of what it brings
3. It’s a labor of love done by someone who can for someone who can’t
4. It’s used in comparison with the second coming – we don’t know the day or hour of when it will happen 
In other news….I’ve started a baby quilt!
7-Jan-2008
We joined a new church on Sunday!
We’ve been visiting there for a while and we had the pastor and his family over for dinner one evening to ask some questions and get to know them. We’ve looked around, prayed and come to the decision that this is where God wants us. It’s so nice to have a family! I never realized what a great asset a church can be when you’re new to an area – we already have a list of people we would like to invite over.
Praise God for fellowship!
5-Jan-2008
Well, seeing as people weren’t much interested in regular news, I’ll put up some of the more sensational stuff:
Irving Enquirer
Pregnancy becomes apparent!
Here is a previously unreleased photo of Amy Cahill at a friends wedding. An obvious growth of the belly cannot be hidden in the styles of this day and age. Comment from the apparent mom-to-be is pending – confirmation of suspicions are eminent.
Family issues: Sister hides information on place of interview…
Brother leaves home….and more!
Just register your interest by leaving comments and all the family secrets will be revealed.
