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We went on a walk the other day to enjoy the beautiful Colorado sunset.
It was just a perfect day!
Paul and I enjoyed the time with our children, it was a nice way to end a perfect Sabbath Day.
Here is another shot of the sunset.
Final thoughts for the day:
I have spent the past week or so doing research on CSS (cascading style sheets) and attempting to up my skills with movable type. I still have a ways to go in learning these tricky codes. At one point last week I completely erased my archives from the Blog. Thankfully Paul helped me get those back, but I have yet to figure out how to make the side bars come back up on the side as compared to running at the bottom of the text. I also am befuddled to know how to get the double posting to go back to single.
In the morning I plan to attend a prayer group with my friend and then I have a baby shower in the evening. Next week begins the final two weeks of the play I am Music Directing, so I am anticipating blogging to be very light for the duration. We have still not decided if we are going to move this summer, but it is getting down to the wire on that decision. If we do go, I am anticipating this Blogging adventure to be toned down somewhat while I do the work of moving. Enjoy my archives!
Jenny Hatch
I really wanted to do a great blog post on these articles:
C-Section Rate climb
No Massive dosing on vitamins during pregnancy
Both of these newsmax articles made me chuckle.
On vitamins:
“Women should not self-dose on high-dose vitamin C and E supplements. These are available across the counter and, we suggest, are now contraindicated in pregnancy.”
The powers that be are getting ready for Mercks takeover when Codex really gets going in America in the next year or two. I took upwards of 5 grams of vitamin C and 1200 IU of Vitamin E during all of my pregnancies and the day I gave birth to my second daughter by C-section I ate 50 GRAMS, yes that is GRAMS of vitamin C to ward off a post opperative infection. No diarrhea. If you get the runs after taking high doses of C it is a sign you have saturated your body. These water soluble vitamins easily pass out of the tissues of the body, and are necessary nutrients for pregnancy.
What cracks me up is the double standard. Pregnant women can take Anti-Depressants….even at the highest doses, but Heaven forbid if she wants to take some extra C to help with building her placenta or making sure junior has a properly built immune system.
The bottom line of these articles:
Vitamins = BAAAAADDD / Cesarean Section = GOOD
As for the C-section article, it is just loaded with lies:
“Potential benefits of CDMR as compared with planned vaginal delivery include a decreased risk of hemorrhaging for the mother, and a reduced risk of certain birth injuries for the baby.”
National Institutes of health mulling, and mulling, and mulling while doctors and hospitals reap a bounteous harvest from the wombs of unsuspecting mothers and babies all over the country…..cha ching, cha ching…
“But proponents of elective C-sections say the worst risks are extremely rare, especially for a healthy, rested woman, and that vaginal birth has its own problems, such as vaginal tears or the use of forceps.”
“At the end of the day it should be the mother’s decision,” said Linda Dyson, a New York public relations executive whose first baby was born by a medically necessary C-section but chose to have her second child the same way. “Honestly for me, I thought a C-section was safer.”
And therein lies the problem….women are NOT being taught the facts about surgical birth.
Mommas….take personal responsibility for the health of your baby, your birth, and your family life. You are the one who has to live with the long term consequences of your birth choices.
My question is….when is it going to stop??? When the C-section rate hits 75%? 85%? or are we just going to get to the point where we have a section or an unassisted home birth?
I need to go to sleep.
Jenny Hatch
Author Jenny Marie Hatch
Jeffrey Holland – Broken Things to Mend
I did not teach my Sunday School class last sunday because we had a worldwide General Conference of the Church I belong too. The talks were wonderful! My favorite was Jeffrey R. Holland who is an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ. Here is the talk for your enjoyment. I will not be teaching a lesson today in my sunday school class, we are going to study the message of this talk instead.
Jenny Hatch
Broken Things to Mend
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
When He says to the poor in spirit, “Come unto me,” He means He knows the way out and He knows the way up.
The first words Jesus spoke in His majestic Sermon on the Mount were to the troubled, the discouraged and downhearted. "Blessed are the poor in spirit," He said, "for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."1 Whether you are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or among the tens of thousands listening this morning who are not of our faith, I speak to those who are facing personal trials and family struggles, those who endure conflicts fought in the lonely foxholes of the heart, those trying to hold back floodwaters of despair that sometimes wash over us like a tsunami of the soul. I wish to speak particularly to you who feel your lives are broken, seemingly beyond repair.
To all such I offer the surest and sweetest remedy that I know. It is found in the clarion call the Savior of the world Himself gave. He said it in the beginning of His ministry, and He said it in the end. He said it to believers, and He said it to those who were not so sure. He said to everyone, whatever their personal problems might be:
"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
"Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls."2
In this promise, that introductory phrase, "come unto me," is crucial. It is the key to the peace and rest we seek. Indeed, when the resurrected Savior gave His sermon at the temple to the Nephites in the New World, He began, "Blessed are the poor in spirit who come unto me, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."3
When Andrew and John first heard Christ speak, they were so moved they followed Him as He walked away from the crowd. Sensing He was being pursued, Jesus turned and asked the two men, "What seek ye?" They answered, "Where dwellest thou?" And Christ said, "Come and see." The next day He found another disciple, Philip, and said to him, "Follow me."4 Just a short time later He formally called Peter and others of the new Apostles with the same spirit of invitation. Come, "follow me,"5 He said.
It seems clear that the essence of our duty and the fundamental requirement of our mortal life is captured in these brief phrases from any number of scenes in the Savior’s mortal ministry. He is saying to us, "Trust me, learn of me, do what I do. Then, when you walk where I am going," He says, "we can talk about where you are going, and the problems you face and the troubles you have. If you will follow me, I will lead you out of darkness," He promises. "I will give you answers to your prayers. I will give you rest to your souls."
My beloved friends, I know of no other way for us to succeed or to be safe amid life’s many pitfalls and problems. I know of no other way for us to carry our burdens or find what Jacob in the Book of Mormon called "that happiness which is prepared for the saints."6
So how does one "come unto Christ" in response to this constant invitation? The scriptures give scores of examples and avenues. You are well acquainted with the most basic ones. The easiest and the earliest comes simply with the desire of our heart, the most basic form of faith that we know. "If ye can no more than desire to believe," Alma says, exercising just "a particle of faith," giving even a small place for the promises of God to find a home—that is enough to begin.7 Just believing, just having a "molecule" of faith—simply hoping for things which are not yet seen in our lives, but which are nevertheless truly there to be bestowed8—that simple step, when focused on the Lord Jesus Christ, has ever been and always will be the first principle of His eternal gospel, the first step out of despair.
Second, we must change anything we can change that may be part of the problem. In short we must repent, perhaps the most hopeful and encouraging word in the Christian vocabulary. We thank our Father in Heaven we are allowed to change, we thank Jesus we can change, and ultimately we do so only with Their divine assistance. Certainly not everything we struggle with is a result of our actions. Often it is the result of the actions of others or just the mortal events of life. But anything we can change we should change, and we must forgive the rest. In this way our access to the Savior’s Atonement becomes as unimpeded as we, with our imperfections, can make it. He will take it from there.
Third, in as many ways as possible we try to take upon us His identity, and we begin by taking upon us His name. That name is formally bestowed by covenant in the saving ordinances of the gospel. These start with baptism and conclude with temple covenants, with many others, such as partaking of the sacrament, laced throughout our lives as additional blessings and reminders. Teaching the people of his day the message we give this morning, Nephi said: "Follow the Son, with full purpose of heart, . . . with real intent, . . . take upon you the name of Christ. . . . Do the things which I have told you I have seen that your Lord and your Redeemer [will] do."9
Following these most basic teachings, a splendor of connections to Christ opens up to us in multitudinous ways: prayer and fasting and meditation upon His purposes, savoring the scriptures, giving service to others, "succor[ing] the weak, lift[ing] up the hands which hang down, . . . strengthen[ing] the feeble knees."10 Above all else, loving with "the pure love of Christ," that gift that "never faileth," that gift that "beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, [and] endureth all things."11 Soon, with that kind of love, we realize our days hold scores of thoroughfares leading to the Master and that every time we reach out, however feebly, for Him, we discover He has been anxiously trying to reach us. So we step, we strive, we seek, and we never yield.12
My desire today is for all of us—not just those who are "poor in spirit" but all of us—to have more straightforward personal experience with the Savior’s example. Sometimes we seek heaven too obliquely, focusing on programs or history or the experience of others. Those are important but not as important as personal experience, true discipleship, and the strength that comes from experiencing firsthand the majesty of His touch.
Are you battling a demon of addiction—tobacco or drugs or gambling, or the pernicious contemporary plague of pornography? Is your marriage in trouble or your child in danger? Are you confused with gender identity or searching for self-esteem? Do you—or someone you love—face disease or depression or death? Whatever other steps you may need to take to resolve these concerns, come first to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Trust in heaven’s promises. In that regard Alma’s testimony is my testimony: "I do know," he says, "that whosoever shall put their trust in God shall be supported in their trials, and their troubles, and their afflictions."13
This reliance upon the merciful nature of God is at the very center of the gospel Christ taught. I testify that the Savior’s Atonement lifts from us not only the burden of our sins but also the burden of our disappointments and sorrows, our heartaches and our despair.14 From the beginning, trust in such help was to give us both a reason and a way to improve, an incentive to lay down our burdens and take up our salvation. There can and will be plenty of difficulties in life. Nevertheless, the soul that comes unto Christ, who knows His voice and strives to do as He did, finds a strength, as the hymn says, "beyond [his] own."15 The Savior reminds us that He has "graven [us] upon the palms of [His] hands."16 Considering the incomprehensible cost of the Crucifixion and Atonement, I promise you He is not going to turn His back on us now. When He says to the poor in spirit, "Come unto me," He means He knows the way out and He knows the way up. He knows it because He has walked it. He knows the way because He is the way.
Brothers and sisters, whatever your distress, please don’t give up and please don’t yield to fear. I have always been touched that as his son was departing for his mission to England, Brother Bryant S. Hinckley gave young Gordon a farewell embrace and then slipped him a handwritten note with just five words taken from the fifth chapter of Mark: "Be not afraid, only believe."17 I think also of that night when Christ rushed to the aid of His frightened disciples, walking as He did on the water to get to them, calling out, "It is I; be not afraid." Peter exclaimed, "Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water." Christ’s answer to him was as it always is every time: "Come," He said. Instantly, as was his nature, Peter sprang over the vessel’s side and into the troubled waters. While his eyes were fixed upon the Lord, the wind could toss his hair and the spray could drench his robes, but all was well—he was coming to Christ. It was only when his faith wavered and fear took control, only when he removed his glance from the Master to look at the furious waves and the ominous black gulf beneath, only then did he begin to sink into the sea. In newer terror he cried out, "Lord, save me."
Undoubtedly with some sadness, the Master over every problem and fear, He who is the solution to every discouragement and disappointment, stretched out His hand and grasped the drowning disciple with the gentle rebuke, "O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?"18
If you are lonely, please know you can find comfort. If you are discouraged, please know you can find hope. If you are poor in spirit, please know you can be strengthened. If you feel you are broken, please know you can be mended.
In Nazareth, the narrow road,
That tires the feet and steals the breath,
Passes the place where once abode
The Carpenter of Nazareth.And up and down the dusty way
The village folk would often wend;
And on the bench, beside Him, lay
Their broken things for Him to mend.The maiden with the doll she broke,
The woman with the broken chair,
The man with broken plough, or yoke,
Said, "Can you mend it, Carpenter?"And each received the thing he sought,
In yoke, or plough, or chair, or doll;
The broken thing which each had brought
Returned again a perfect whole.So, up the hill the long years through,
With heavy step and wistful eye,
The burdened souls their way pursue,
Uttering each the plaintive cry:"O Carpenter of Nazareth,
This heart, that’s broken past repair,
This life, that’s shattered nigh to death,
Oh, can You mend them, Carpenter?"And by His kind and ready hand,
His own sweet life is woven through
Our broken lives, until they stand
A New Creation—"all things new.""The shattered [substance] of [the] heart,
Desire, ambition, hope, and faith,
Mould Thou into the perfect part,
O, Carpenter of Nazareth!"19
May we all, especially the poor in spirit, come unto Him and be made whole, I pray, in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, amen.
NOTES
1. Matthew 5:3.
2. Matthew 11:28–29.
3. 3 Nephi 12:3; emphasis added.
4. John 1:35–39, 43.
5. See Matthew 4:19.
6. See 2 Nephi 9:43.
7. See Alma 32:27; emphasis added.
8. See Alma 32:21.
9. 2 Nephi 31:13, 17.
10. D&C 81:5.
11. Moroni 7:47, 46, 45.
12. See Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses," in The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson (1898), 89.
13. Alma 36:3.
14. See Alma 7:11–12.
15. "Lord, I Would Follow Thee," Hymns, no. 220.
16. 1 Nephi 21:16.
17. Mark 5:36.
18. Matthew 14:27–31; emphasis added.
19. George Blair, "The Carpenter of Nazareth," in Obert C. Tanner, Christ’s Ideals for Living (Sunday School manual, 1955), 22.
Healthy Families Make A Healthy World!
Yummy Soup for the Bird Flu
Here is my recipe for a great Anti-Viral Soup. It is chock full of garlic, nutrients, and all the ingredients needed to quickly nourish and cleanse the body if it becomes ravaged by a flu virus.
Start with Two full bulbs of garlic…
I purchased a large bag of these bulbs from Sam’s Club the other day – cost? $4.00
Break the cloves of garlic off the bulb and chop it up. I then pick out about ten cloves worth of peeled garlic to add to the soup. The rest of the garlic and peels I add to my stock pot. Garlic is one of the most powerful anti-viral foods on the planet. Even chopping this garlic and getting it all over your hands, and sniffing the odors will help to kill virus in your kitchen and your home.
The idea of eating “chicken soup” for a “chicken virus” does seem a little weird, so this recipe is vegan (does not contain any animal ingredients) and is easy enough for even the novice cook to make.
You add the peels to the stock pot to extract as much power from the garlic as possible. Boiling for twenty minutes helps to pull those properties out of the garlic. It also helps to kill any air born viruses in your home as the steam from the soup spreads over your home.
Adding in the garlic – Cook on a medium heat while the lentils soak and the stock boils.
Add the Oatstraw Tea to the stock pot. Make sure not to add this to your soup pot, it will make the soup taste terrible. However, using it to make stock is one of the most powerful herbal additions to any food.
Oatstraw is an excellent food to eat for any viral disease.
Potatoes and Sprouted Lentils
Potato peels are a great addition to any stock. Just peel your potatoes right into the stock pot. Then chop the potatoes and add them into the soup pot.
When I purchase foods at the store, I always buy a variety of colors, sizes, and types of foods, to add different nutrients to my meals. For this recipe I used one baking potato and one red potato. But you can use any combination of potatoes. This same principle is good for onions, any vegetable, or grain. Get small amounts of different types of food to get a variety of flavors and nutrients into your foods.
I could talk all day about the goodness of Flax Seed. Friends are always surprised to hear that I use flax in almost everything I make. Flax is a natural anti-depressant for me, and it adds great flavor to any dish. I use two tablespoons in this recipe. Add the flax into the stock pot.
Add in Red Raspberry leaf tea to the stock pot. Raspberry leaves contain Vitamin C and Magnesium, both necessary nutrients to fight disease.
Sea salt added liberally to the stock pot will help to extract the nutrients from the foods. I put in about a full tablespoon of good quality sea salt.
Carrots in the sink
While I made the stock I asked my daughter Allison to peel the carrots.
You can add the peels to the stock pot to extract more vitamin A into the stock. This is a very important nutrient to help the body fight disease.
Sprouted lentils contain a high concentration of Vitamin C.
The soup pot with the lentils
Organic Brown lentils
Organic Quinoa – This high protein grain is easy to digest and is a great alternative to rice. I keep a bay leaf in the food bin to ward off weevils and moths.
One half cup of Quinoa
One cup of lentils
Adding in Quinoa to the garlic and onions
Stock pot simmering
Getting ready to strain the stock into the soup pot
Straining the stock into the soup pot. When I have put the first stock into the soup, I fill up the stock pot once more with the same foods, cover them with water, and again, boil a second pot of stock for twenty minutes. This ensures that the highest amount of the nutrients are extracted from the herbs and vegetables. It sort of “rinses” the final nutrients from the herbs, seeds, and vegetables.
Adding Cumin to the soup. Cumin helps to make the lentils more digestible. Also tastes great.
I like LOTS of cumin…
Adding in whole coriander to the soup pot.
This soup is now ready to be covered and simmered for three hours at a low temperature.
The final step is adding in powerful anti-viral oils and herbs just before serving the soup. This step is one of the most important in terms of the overall “viracide” action of this soup. We want to kill off as many viruses and bacteria as possible. I add in one or two drops each of Thyme and Oregano oil. I purchase these oils from a company that produces therapeutical grade essential oils. Dried herbs also give good flavor and final color to the soup.
Adding in two drops of Thyme essential oil
Adding in a drop of Oregano oil
Finished Garlic, Lentil, and Quinoa Soup
Soup’s on! Serve this soup with whole grain toast, fresh fruit, or home baked rolls or bread.
Here is the recipe in a quick synopsis for those of you who missed amounts and steps while browsing through the pictures…
Jenny’s Flu Soup:
2 onions
2 bulbs of garlic (about 20 cloves)
2 tablespoons sea salt
½ cup olive oil
¼ cup oatstraw tea (you may need to go to a health food store to get this)
2 tablespoons flax seed
¼ c Red Raspberry leaf tea
½ cup quinoa
1 cup brown lentils
½ cup sprouted brown lentils
2 potatoes
10 large carrots
1 tsp cumin
10 whole coriander seeds
Essential oils of Thyme and Oregano
Dried herbs of Thyme, Oregano, and Parsley
Directions for soup:
Cook onions, garlic, and olive oil in a pot. Add in chopped potatoes, carrots, and one Tablespoon of the sea salt. Let this cook for a few minutes, then add in the Quinoa, and sprouted lentils. (Sprouted lentils have the highest concentration of vitamin C of any food). To sprout lentils just cover a half cup of them with water over night. Drain in the morning and keep them wet until a ¼ inch tendril of sprout is detected. (This takes about 35 hours)
Fill a separate pot with two quarts of water to make soup stock. Add in the peels from the garlic, flaxseed, the oatstraw, raspberry leaf tea, and the peels from the carrots and potatoes. Bring the stock up to a hard boil for twenty minutes.
Cover the cup of brown lentils with water in a bowl. After soaking them for a few minutes, add the lentils and the water to the soup.
After the stock is finished boiling, strain the liquid into the soup pot. Recover the stock vegetables with another 2 quarts of water, and bring to a boil. Once again, strain the stock vegetables and add that liquid to the pot of soup. This ensures that the maximum amount of nutrients from the herbs will be included in the stock. This stock is chock full of essential fatty acids, vitamins, and minerals.
Add in the ten whole Coriander seeds. Cover the pot and let simmer for three hours.
To finish the soup, add in the drops of Essential oils of Thyme and Oregano (one or two drops of each) – Therapeutic grade oils are best, and then toss in the dried herbs.
I made this soup for my family and asked them to describe it for you who are reading…
Husband Paul – “on a scale of one to ten, this soup was a six in terms of my all time favorite soup”
Shelly (16) – “it was OK, wouldn’t want to eat it every day”
Allison (13) – “too spicy, but I would eat it if I was sick”
Jeff (11) – I liked the carrots, but that was about it…”
Andy (9) – “yum!” (Andy will eat ANYTHING!)
Ben (2) – Ben would not even try the soup
I thought it was delicious, really spicy, with a powerful effect on my throat and sinuses, I could feel it moving through my system cooking out all the junk. I plan to make this soup a couple times this season both to help prevent the flu, and if we get it, to help heal those who may be ill.
Jenny Hatch
Healthy Families Make A Healthy World!
Kite Flying on a perfect Spring Day
Paul and I took our boys kite flying yesterday. It was windy and cool, a perfect day for going to the park and flying Ben’s new Eagle kite.
The children wanted to play at the park first
Paul and Jeff set up the Eagle Kite
Ben played on the slide
All of the children playing on the slide
Ben age three
Ben and I tried to get the kite up in the air first
All of the kids going down the slide
Here is a distant shot of the arboretum where I like to walk
The Eagle Kite!
Paul and the boys get the kite airborn, you have to look close to see the kite from that distance…it really did look like a real bird flapping its wings in the air.
Here is a shot of our home town, Louisville Colorado, you can see the Boulder Flatirons in the background.
Jenny Hatch
Healthy Families Make A Healthy World!
Final thoughts for the day
Today was busy, spring “break” is not so descriptive of how my week has gone. My work doubles when all of the family is home. And both Shelly and Jeff have been ill with fevers and body aches. So all of the projects I wanted to get done are being shoved to the side while I play nurse and cook and clean.
I did have a lovely time at the rec center where I work out. Went for a walk around a beautiful arboretum that has been created in a space that used to be a large field. Then I swam twenty laps in the pool and did a good stretch in the sauna. I have Yoga tomorow night and will get the rest of my muscles streched out in class.
I like to sing and pray while I am walking. It is such a great time to have a Chat with Father in Heaven without any interuptions. Mostly I just sing hymns and primary songs. Today I added in a few favorite and memorized songs from the musicals, Saturday’s Warrior and My Turn on Earth. I was blessed to memorize two songs from My Turn on Earth which I performed during childhood as solos in sacrament meeting. One early memory of my maternal grandmother was of her weeping while I sang the song homesick in church at about age eight.
Homesick
I get sort of homesick sometimes
For the home I had before my birth
For my other Father and Mother
That I left to come to earth
I miss all the heavenly peace
Of that place where no pain can be found
where their is no hurt and their is no hate
but only love around
till its time to go back home
there’s just one thing to do it’s clear
I’ll try with my heart, I’ll try with my hands
to make a heaven here.
I still cry when I sing it, such a sweet little song.
I loved listening to the birds that are drawn to those trees in the arboretum. So many different kinds all singing for joy. I really enjoyed my walk. My friend Lauren had called asking me to go biking, it was perfect weather for it, but I wanted to be alone. I love a friend like her. I can say no and don’t have to worry about offending or making her mad. No explanations needed, just “that’s cool, maybe next time”. She is a gift.
We are both thinking about having babies this year. It will be her fourth, my sixth. Music has been a connection for our friendship. When I was explaining to my husband why I love her I said, “when I told Lauren that I have a life long dream of playing Mrs. Thenardiere in Les Miserables one day on broadway…she laughed” The fact that she would get the joke is why I am so grateful for her friendship. I do want to play that part some day….”everybody raise a glass…raise it up the master’s *ss” Mormons can only have fun in certain ways and playing a bawdy character in a play is one of them.
I have been preparing my body for pregnancy. I started doing serious prep for pregnancy when I was expecting Allison fifteen years ago. By focusing on good nutrition and exercise, I have been able to prepare well for that intense time of creating a body to house the spirit’s sent to our home.
Each pregnancy has gotten just a little more intense, as I have learned more and more about pregnancy nutrition, deep tissue cleansing, and started doing my own prenatal care when I was pregnant with Andy back in 96.
I went through an intense time of research. It lasted for quite a few years. I was a childbirth teacher and felt a responsibility to my couples to know everything possible about how to build a healthy child while pregnant. It was an interesting exercise in research and then putting my research to the test. Those experiments in baby making, followed by watching the physical, emotional, and spiritual strength of my individual children has convinced me that the physical, emotional, and spiritual foods a mother puts into her body during pregnancy have a profound impact on the health of her child.
I have now learned these principles so well that it is second nature to me to be tracking Protein, Salt, and Water consumption while pregnant without really putting out too much effort. I also “eat” huge amounts of spiritual foods while pregnant, and go to extremes to avoid “toxic” situations and people when I am expecting. This is one of the reasons I stopped going to doctors. Everyone in the obstetrics world is paranoid and fretful. All tests performed on the mother and baby are done in a state of fear. And so many deadly situations are possible for both mother and baby because of the defensive medicine doctors are practicing, that I just decided I did not want to be a part of it.
I plan to blog my next pregnancy in detail. I did a simple pregnancy journal which is still up at the birthlove web site while I was pregnant with Benjamin, who is now three. This is a members only site, or I would link to the journal. I only did a few entries while I was pregnant, as I was homeschooling all four of my older kids during the pregnancy and did not have much time for writing. But with this next baby I plan to get into the details of nutrition, exercise, and natural home birth here at my blog.
While I was walking I felt the spirit of my next son close to me. Every time this happens I feel so overwhelmed with the Love that we mothers are so blessed to experience and feel in relation to our children. I have had these experiences many times with all of my children. Pre-Conception communication is real.
The first was when I was engaged. I was sitting in church and all of a sudden I heard all of these little children voices. “Mommy, Mom, Mother, we are so excited to come down and be with you!” I remember thinking…”Just how many of you are up in heaven waiting to come down?” I didn’t get any sort of a number or know how many girls or how many boys – although I have known women who have had this experience of knowing exactly how many children and in what order those children would appear.
It was just a sweet experience and one that I remember with fondness. This morning my son up in heaven let me know that he was very excited to come join our family and that he would patiently wait until the perfect time to come, for both him and for us as a family. We are so packed into our little house right now, if we had another baby, I just don’t know how we would make it work. We are really hoping to move in the summer to a bigger house. Even just one more bedroom would make a huge difference. But time will tell. Heavenly Father knows our needs and I trust that he will help to open up a way for us to move if we really should. We may just stay here, don’t know. Boulder county is a very expensive place to live.
Well, I need to go to bed.
Jenny Hatch
