On October 28th at 11:05 am, after three hours of active labor the Lord delivered to us a new baby boy! Lucius (pronounced Loo-shus) Jones Coffman was born at home after probably my easiest labor (more on that in another post), he weighed 10 pounds 1 oz and was 21 1/2 inches long. While to his family the day marked my being 42 weeks along, on further inspection after birth it was discovered that Lucius was likely only about 39 weeks gestation so my due date was quite a bit off! Praise the Lord for a midwife that calmed me down when I started to worry about the "post dates". I am taking it easy and Robert is working hard taking care of everyone. And my mom was able to come back for a couple of days too. Lucius is a champ at nursing and it's been years since I've been blessed with that in a newborn! We are so happy he is finally here!
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This week my parents came to visit. I've been having off and on symptoms of impending labor and so we were hoping that they would get here and get to be here for the birth. Well, the Lord had a different plan. There still is no baby and Memaw and Papa had to head out yesterday. It was a great week though! I got lots of rest and stress free fun! We went to church, the seminary, a local orchard, grocery shopping, and lots of other fun stuff. The kids loved having them around too. : ) So here are some pictures and a quick story.
We were at Sam's eating lunch today and Wild Man, being 4, accidentally dropped his cup and it spilled bad. Like, paper towels won't cut it type of spill. We found an employee named David to clean it for us and after looking at how big the mess was he went and got the mop to clean it. As he was getting the mop ready and Wild Man was watching on in rapture at the cool mop contraption, a woman (customer) walked by and scoffed saying "Those darn kids, right?!" to the employee. The man quietly said, "No, children are a blessing." and continued to work. I hadn't looked up when the woman made her comment because it's a typical stance toward children in our country and didn't surprise me but when David responded the way he did I looked up abruptly at my husband and said, "Did you catch all that?" And he said yes. I sat for another 20 minutes basking in this employee's love and service toward our little boy who he didn't even know. I watched him gently and thoroughly clean the floor and Wild Man said he was sorry and thanked him, and I thanked him. And he was gracious and sweet to us and then walked off when he was done, on to his next lowly job in Sam's. And I was staggered by God's grace in this situation. I would not have noticed David if Wild Man had not dropped his cup. But with five simple words he left me crying and blessed beyond belief on an average Saturday at Sam's. We reported how wonderful David was to management. Can I just say, I am so thankful that Wild Man spilled his cup today. I hope that David is thankful for the opportunity to serve humbly and bless a family. I hope that next time I clean up a mess my children made I will remember David and be as gracious as he. Hello! We are still here and still waiting on our new family member. We just keep getting stuff done with the extra time. I trimmed the hedges yesterday and cleaned up all the clippings today. Robert mowed yesterday. We took the kids to downtown Louisville to look around yesterday and got to see the Louisville Slugger factory. We walked a couple of blocks just for fun. I successfully parallel parked our 12 seater van! I have finished all my classes for this term of Seminary Wives Institute and am just finishing a reading assignment and then I will be totally done with the assignments/quizzes. We were able to finish all the membership classes at our church and are now looking to schedule an interview with a couple of the elders. We joined a small group and got to attend that last Sunday. The Hulk is pushing up four molars! And he has a rough time with teething. So lots of snot and fussiness and lack of sleep. I got all the kids' dental cleanings done this week so that is one less thing to worry about!
As far as labor goes there hasn't been anything too concrete. I'm down to 5 days until my due date and out of the five kiddos I had already given birth to 4 of them by this point in gestation. I will have a day here or there where I'm very uncomfortable (like, more than usual discomfort for 9 months preggo) and crampy and baby is really low, with lots of really strong braxton hicks contractions. but then the next day everything feels normal and baby seems in no hurry. So I don't know! : ) I'm happy to have a healthy full term baby that gets to choose when he or she will be born. Experience shows me that I will not be pregnant forever so I don't need to worry. Anyway! Thank you for your prayers and love and the comments. I read those too. ; ) Well, here we are in October! Yeah! The weather is getting cooler and the kids love that. We have been chilling out at home as much as possible, just doing our school work and keeping the home. Everything is ready for Baby#7 so we are waiting patiently. (Most of the time) I have been doing some deep cleaning that needs to be done. Wednesday we washed all the sliding glass doors in the sun room, inside and out. We've been having people from church over for dinner, making friends. I went to the women's conference through our church last weekend and it was amazing! We have a lot to be thankful for right now. But don't be fooled. I am a sinner caring for five little sinners all day long everyday. We have had a lot of really bad days lately. Days that make me want to lock myself in my closet for a few hours and cry! It's never ending work when we moms are pursuing our children's hearts and pointing out sin and calling for repentance. And then we look at ourselves and see the same sins and fighting our own flesh is just as hard as helping our children fight their's! I have a constant inner monologue going on where I despair and want to give up and then fight myself with the gospel by preaching to myself that my strength comes from the Lord and His grace is sufficient. My worth is found in Christ, not in my children's behavior or how smoothly our lessons go or anything else. I don't have to do everything right, I can fail over and over and He will still finish His work. He does not depend on me, I depend on Him. I took a picture at lunch one of these hard days to remind myself of what a table full of blessings I have. So many moments with these blessings are me just covering my face and begging God for discernment and wisdom in how to disciple them because I am so lost and clueless as to how to deal with the current misbehavior or bad attitude. Our children are not the exception. Our situation is not the exception. We must keep fighting through the fire and water and trial. |
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