So guess what? I’m pregnant again with Baby #6. Yes, we’re surprised too. We were planning to be done after Faith was born last year (she’s 18 months). Apparently not! And since I wasn’t looking for it and therefore found out a bit later than I normally do, I’m sick already (threw up 2x yesterday). I think I should get some sort of superhero persona with this. I could be Fertile Woman or OvaBabe. Yeah, OvaBabe. That’s good.

We found out a week and a half ago and Georgehas been praying for me every night before bed, which has been an enormous blessing. I can feel my attitude improving every time. Also some of the kids are old enough to be actually helpful-ish now so they corral their own laundry and haul it to the washer, fold and put away the clean clothes, clean two of the bathrooms, clean their rooms and make their beds, and will soon be back into doing dishes regularly.

In other news, my parents are moving on Saturday to their new house, which is about 15 minutes closer to us. I’m so glad! I think I’ve about got my Mother conned, errrr…. convinced of her own accord, into teaching the kids foreign language this year. She’s pretty fluent in German and French, so that will be fun. Trinity (age 7) was in Mom’s Sunday school class last year and she taught all the kids a Christmas carol in German. Wow, did Trinity ever get a lot of mileage out of that!

That’s pretty much the big news around here. Hope you’re having a delightful week that involves no morning (or other) sickness.

Rachel