About Me
 This is a place for me to share with other women what I have learned over the years and a place for me to be The Country Homemaker that I am and be myself.
Linda , aka Simple Countrygirl...
It is my desire to bring honor and glory to my Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ. (The True Bread of Life )
It is a place where I long to share the talents the Lord has given me in the area of my Keeper at Home Duties of Homemaking, Being a godly Woman in the Lord ,Modest Dress, Headcovering (for prayer), Pregnancy, Childbirth ,Childhood Diabetes, Single Parenting, Child Training , Home Schooling ,Nutrition ,Meal Planning , Shopping & Saving Tips, Cooking , Baking, Gardening, Herbal Things, Quilting , Sewing , Crocheting , Cross-stitch , Soap making, Goat Raising , Rabbit Raising , and other Animal Care.
It is also a place where I might when time allows share how to do your own Web Design, How to Draw and Paint, Home Decorating, Home Businesses for the Keeper at Home and much much more, if the Lord tarries and allows me the time to share these things.
As you glean from the pages here please pray for me as the spirit leads you, I am a Sister in the Lord to those of you who are Born Again Bible Believing and Following Christians. I am no more spiritual than any of you and I do not wish to be looked at as anything more then just an instrument of the Lord's Use in Him doing His Will in our lives. Pray for those who would happen upon this site who are not His and are in need of his Saving Grace and Mercy, Who are seeking Him and will Find Him if they are sincere in their search for Him and If you are one of those who comes here seeking Him or seeking information on Homemaking, May the Lord use this site to Bless you and show you His Ways and His Will for your life.
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31 weeks and counting
Well actually sunday will be 32 weeks ....8 to go....
I have an OB/Midwife appt tomorrow at 11 am, so I
will try to come post after that appt.
Blessings
Linda of Faithful Acres Farm
Posted on Thursday, November 22, 2007 at 8:57 PM
Embrasing Children even in the later years...
A very sweet freind named Patti said that seeing women like myself embracing children even at my age (43) as the Lord blesses my womb, was a blessing to her. Patti, the Lord has plans for each of us, the bible says " He makes the barren women the joyful mother of children". My children are DD 24, DD 20, DS 18, DS 14, DD 5 and DD 4 and our newest blessing due in January 2008 DS. Between DS 18 and DS 14 I miscarried in 1991. In 2001 we lost another to miscarriage and Again between DD 4 and the new blessing DS due in January, we lost 3 more to miscarriage.
You start to wonder if you will ever be able to carry babies to full term again, miscarriage and infertility are hard burdens to bare. I am the oldest of 7 in my family, having so many siblings and being from a large family made me desire whatever size family the Lord would give me. I wasn't always quiverful minded, as I was in an abusive marriage from 1986 to 2000.
So I kept saying when I am 30 I will be done having children... But the Lord changed something in my heart back then and well the desire for my blessings has never gone away. There are times I have set it aside and learned not to dwell on it.
Knowing that the whole time the Lord would have his will in my life, no matter how old I was. Well as I said, when you miscarry so many blessings and there is no apparent reason but Dr's keep telling you Oh it is natural as your getting older you know, your over 40 now..... It wasn't what I wanted to hear, nor was it what I believed to be true, as my own mother never miscarried once and she had 7 of us and my " little sister" was born when my mom was almost 45. Not to mention that she and my grandmother never went through menopause till 55 or so. So why would I think that what I was going through was normal for my life or any womans life. I questioned the validity of my Dr and midwife at the times statements. I asked for testing on my internal functions and this year after another miscarriage in February 2007, I asked for my hormone levels to be tested. All my OB said were within normal range to be able to get pregnant still, but you get that same old speech about the risk of having downs babies and the like. OK so if my hormones were ok , what was wrong ? Well about two years ago a friend suggested that I might be suffering from LPD Litunal phase defect...(spelling is off here) I guess that my body was not producing enough progestrone to carry a pregnancy. So I went out and searched for something on Hormone imbalance and balancing my hormones ect. Dr John Lee wrote this wonderful book or set of books. What your Dr may not tell you about peri-menopause: balancing your hormones between 30 and 50. What your Dr may not tell you about Menopause. He also wrote a book called What your Dr may not tell you about Breast Cancer. So I read the second one, then bought the first one mentioned here. I joined some groups on yahoo about Natural Hormone replacement therapy and the like. I learned alot I never knew, I mean about things as women we really need to know about our bodies and how they work. From my symptoms back then I surmized that I was low on progestrone and used Natural Progestrone Cream for 6 months, morning and night for 14
days between the time I ovulated and starting my next monthly. I can honestly say I felt better , was not as moody, didn't retain fluid as much and my asthma and allergies seemed non existant. I was also using Whey Protien shakes and taking good vitamins. (Shaklee) which I now am an independent distributor . I didn't get pregnant during that time, so I quit using the Progestrone Cream, thinking it wasnt the issue. www.emerita.com or look for it on www.amazon.com Emerita Paraben Free Pro-Gest natural progestrone cream. Well long about last December I again became pregnant, didn't use the cream and lost another baby to miscarriage February 28th. So I thought more on things I was doing and using and adjusted my vitamin intake and supplements and what I was eating...
and in May on my 43 birthday I felt rather sick that weak and thought I was suffering another virus, till acid reflux set in and I decided well since I get acid reflux when pregnant, I would call my Dr and go get a blood test as the nausea didnt seem to go away after a few days. Well the night before I was to hear back from the Dr I decided I am going to start using the cream again and did from that night on. That next day he called and said you are pregnant for sure and need to go to the OB Dr. 4 weeks later I was still using the cream went for my appointment and for the first time got to hear my DS Daniels heartbeat 164 beats per minute then. As I write he is awake within my womb and ever growing and getting bigger and expanding his territory in there... kicking as he goes. I truely feel that if I had not started using the cream, my own body wouldn't have made enough progestrone to carry Daniel to term. The Lord just impressed on me that I needed to be healthy and something was missing here that needed correcting.
So , here I am 43 and pregnant for Daniel Josiah Finn, Our first son together and so thankful to the Lord for showing me that I needed to educate myself in how my own body worked, listen to my own symptoms and do something about it. God is faithful.... Even when the wisdom of this world is foolishness to Him, we can count on him to guide us in the right way to go and what to do.
Embracing and loving my children is natural to me, it comes easily and is what God intended from the start.
To my sisters in the Lord I wish only to share my story so that maybe you can seek the Lord and overcome.
Linda
Faithful Acres
aka: The Country Homemaker
Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 9:51 PM
23 Weeks and counting !
As of today I am 23 weeks along. Daniel is growing and moving arround so much more and each movement is a blessing to me. At 43 years old and not having had a baby in 4 years, it is a true blessing to us. Many of you know that I had miscarried 3 times since having Hope 4 years ago, our last miscarriage was this year in February. I have been using Natural Progestrone Cream by Emerita Paraben free kind called Pro-Gest and it has helped me to carry this pregnancy thus far. The Lord is good as when I thought I was pregnant this time I decided I would do this morning and night to see if it would help , as I was told I was ok on my hormone levels by the Dr. Not wanting to miscarry again I started the night before the Dr called me to tell me I was indeed pregnant. Well, thus far all is well and we are praising the Lord for his Mercy and Blessing us with Little Daniel Josiah. It is a true blessing to know that each day our son grows in my womb.
Blessings
Linda
Posted on Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 9:43 PM
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