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Name: Brandy
Gender: Female
Interests: I love to read, write poetry, play with my children,mentor younger mamas,listen to music,and sing. I love to take long walks outside and enjoy the beauty of nature. I long to live love out loud to a hurting world! I'm a mama of 6 children.
Expertise: Being totally quirky?lol
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AIM:  gentletitus2mama
Yahoo:  gentletitus2mama
Member Since:
2/19/2005
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| Life has taken me by the hand and is dancing me along a path that leaves little time for blogging. I am too busy kissing baby toes, trying my hand at making my own natural herbal soaps, smoothing away wrinkled forheads and brushing away tears, alerting those around me to the poverty of the world's children, and any number of other things! Oh, I write stories, and things inside my head all the time.. maybe some day I will have the time to write them down.My favorite activity of these busy days, is slinging my baby boy in his carrier and taking him on walks. I point out birds, and clouds, and trees while he babbles in delight. He is almost 4 months old and such a wise little soul,lol..... I love to watch the world through his eyes! | | |
| Announcing the arrival of Adam John ! He was born on March 21st at 8:14am by scheduled c-section. he weighed in at 7lbs 14oz and 20 inches long. I think he looks just like his Daddy! The first couple of weeks were a bit rough as I had a harder recovery and then he was put back in the hospital with Jaundice and weight gain problems at 2 weeks old. But after that, things have been going steadily better. The family is getting into a new routine that includes the needs of a little one. Unfortunately for the blog, this new routine hasn't included any time to write. Adam is 7 weeks old today and has been smiling like crazy for a few weeks already. He tries hard to "talk" to us and likes to see what's going on. If you hold a toy over him he will try and bat it with his fist. He tends to be most wakeful and active in the evening and Daddy and I usually trade off carrying him while we complete other tasks. Hoping to get more pictures taken this weekend and maybe I can share a few.   
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| But here I sit, wide awake. Tomorrow, I meet my new little one and become a Mom of 7. I guess I am just too excited to sleep. I will post with baby news when I get back from the hospital. | | |
| So, today I had my 36 week appt. Everything is looking good. Baby's healthy, I'm healthy. As we were waiting for the doctor to come in, I watched my 5 year old play with some trucks. It was like a monster truck rally in mini proportions with the little cars winning. And I began thinking on how if this ultrasound is right, I have signed on for yet another 18 year tour of duty of testosterone dominated fun time. I love all my boys! I don't really think of it most of the time. It's just when other people say, "You have FIVE boys?!?!?" that I realize I am out of the ordinary,lol. In just 3.5 weeks, I get to hold my newest little one and I am very excited and humbled! Parenting is a HARD job. We live in a messy world. I know now that no matter what one does, it doesn't guarantee anything at all. I can do everything I conceivably know to be the right thing for my children and they may still choose to make the wrong choices or be affected by disorders that make life a lot harder for everyone. I just try to get through the day to day doing the best I can and trying to follow where God tells me to go! | | |
| I am not sure how I will last through these final 11 weeks,lol. This kid can kick like nobodies business. I don't remember any of my others kicking so hard at this point. But at least it's reassuring that he's doing well. I am really starting to get excited about having a baby again after 5 years! Things have been both really good and really hard on the homefront lately. I have a few children that just really seem to struggle. They have all been through so much tough stuff.... Divorces and loss. I think it stinks, personally. One thing that is nice about this baby is it will be OURS.... not the ex's... no sharing holidays or worrying about bad influences from the other parent. We have joked about keeping this little one in a proverbial bubble protected from all the bad things of the world.
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