What can I say?

Happy New Year! It's been a long 3 months since I last posted. I gave birth to a precious daughter on November 20, 2005 at3:50 am. This precious soul weighed 11 pounds 7 ounces and measured 22.5". Much could be said about GBS testing, prophylatic antibiotics etc. and although I have strong opinions on many things, I have no black and white opinion on this subject. Suffice it to say that many babies' lives have been saved, because of these antibiotics and testing of Moms. Whether sweet EO was GBS+ or not (her bacterial culture was negative; I had had half a dose of antibiotics which may have given her some protection, enough to have a negative culture reading, yet not enough to protect her from an elevated white blood cell count and a fever of 103 F by hour 54 of life), we'll never know. What we do know is that she was at Durham Regional in the Special Care Nursery for 7 days, after an initial day in the regular nursery and being with her Momma. It was sad to leave her behind, but she has been home now for 6 weeks and the hospital stay is but a distant memory. We are thankful for good to excellent health care insurance, because otherwise the $25,000 plus price tag would have been simply outrageous!

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. (KJV) Ecc. 12: 12-13

I get pensive come every new year. I'll be blunt; raising 8 children, hsing 5 with a preschooler, a toddler and an infant is not easy...even with the help of a wonderful husband. What really bothers me is my fellow Christians.esp. those that have large families, yet rely on government assistance for their *daily necessities*, while spending their money foolishly on new computers, surround sound stereo, vacations etc. It is hard for me to be civil about such things. I belong to a private message board for quiver full homeschoolers. There are some VERY dear sweet women on there who inspire and encourage me; yet there's foolish women on there, married to lazy foolish men who refuse to provide for their family's food and shelter and medical needs. It drives me absolutely to frustration to listen to their illogical logic (is that an oxymoron?)about how the government's provision is God's provision. Hello? Why should the government be paying for your food and ultrasounds while you have a computer (with a better operating system than our lousy Windows 98), internet access and gasp! cable. These people are so darn arrogant to think that by virtue of their existence here in America that they are entitled to such things because....hmm.God is blessing them????!!! Supid arrogant willfully misguided people.

Before you think, wow, what an angry woman.....well, yes, that part is true...but really, I get frustrated because just as a rising tide raises all ships, so too, are these people's unbiblical way of life drag us down....esp. our Christian brethern in 3rd world countries who eke out a subsistence life because *we* like shopping at the $ store for junk stuff.....help.

The funny thing is I can't even post my blog link on my message board, because I'd probably get kicked off.....oh, well...

Well...it won't be 3 months until my next post. Let me go control what I can control which is this household of 8 blessed imperfect (like their Mombley) children.