Anything to help….

Through a series of clicks, from a link at DeAnna’s blog for Owlhaven’s blog to Karen’s, I found a request from an expectant mom for pictures of other pregnant moms so she would feel better about her pregnancy size. 🙂

This was taken just before I was induced for the delivery of my third child, Jesse, a little over 13 years ago. He was 13 days overdue. He weighed 12 lbs. even. Yes, he did. Yes, the same skinny Jesse you’ve seen in other photos here. I am not sure why he was so big — my weight gain with him was the most moderate of the three of them, and I didn’t have the gestational diabetes that I had had with Jason. But I sure was glad when he finally arrived. 🙂

Expecting Jesse

He was born in a women’s hospital, which usually only had newborn babies around, and someone from the hospital had to go out and buy diapers because the newborn ones wouldn’t fit.

Newborn Jesse

Wasn’t he a cutie?! Still is!

Wordless Wednesday: Doing Homework

Doing Homework

I continually find Jesse in odd positions while he’s doing homework. Looks uncomfortable to me, but I guess it doesn’t bother him! I think of this as his vulture pose. 🙂

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Photo Scavenger Hunt: Dreaming

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Wordless Wednesday: Baby Brother

Jason and baby Jesse

This was 13 years ago when Jason was 6 and Jesse was newborn (they are now 19 and 13). I always loved this expression on Jason’s face here, as if he’s thinking, “What do I do now?” There are other pictures of him smiling down at his new baby brother and later pictures of him down on the floor playing with him or talking to him, but at this point it was like he was thinking, “OK, I’ve had enough now.”

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Saturday Photo Scavenger Hunt: Sleeping

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Wordless Wednesday: “Helping” with laundry

Jesse in hamper

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Wordless Wednesday: Brotherly Love

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This is one of my favorite pictures. 🙂
It’s from a few years ago. Thankfully they still love each other. 🙂 This picture is from a few weeks ago:

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There’s a new teen-ager in the world today

Jesse turns 13 today. 😯 😮

It’s a milestone for him to become a teen-ager, start junior high, and join the youth group.
It’s a milestone for me because he’s my youngest child to become a teen-ager.
(Too bad there’s not a wistful smiley face.)

A wise older mom told me years ago not to dread the teen years of our children. If we approach those years with fear or with the thought that it’s going to be awful — it might well be. But if the relationship has been good and the lines of communication have been open all along, there’s no reason both parents and teens can’t enjoy this time of life and work through the transitions. I’m so glad she told me that. For the most part I’ve enjoyed the teen years of my older two sons, and I think they have, too.

We know all along as parents that we’re “working ourselves out of a job,” training our children to one day become responsible adults. That doesn’t make it any easier, though, to know that they won’t always be at home. I won’t look too far ahead and waste the time now missing them before they’re gone. But I’m becoming ever more aware that that time is coming all too quickly.

I hope you have a great birthday, Jesse! Always stay your sweet, sunny self. I trust in these next several years you’ll continue to grow into the young man I hope you will someday become, a man who loves God with all of his heart.


This was Jesse during his first birthday.

Jesse this summer.

Wordless Wednesday: Father and son

This is one of my favorite father and son pictures from several years ago.

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Wordless Wednesday: My Guys

I just got a new digital camera of my very own for my birthday, and this is the first picture I took with it.

I’ve also learned how to download the pictures to the computer and post them! I used to have to rely on my sons for all of that. But they’ll be leaving the nest some day( 😦 ) so I need to try not to be so technologically dependent on them.

I’ve been so excited that an old middle-aged dog lady can learn new tricks stuff!